The use of ultrasound for industrial and medical applications has a long and colorful history. Starting in 1965, the commercial potential of ultrasound took off, particularly for medical uses. Today, many different industries benefit from the advancement of ultrasound technology.
The ultrasound industry is stable and mature, with key markets such as non-destructive testing, automotive and medical constantly delivering new technological developments. But new consumer markets such as fingerprint sensors for smartphones and gesture recognition are now looking at this technology, injecting vibrancy.

Yole Développement’s (Yole) describes in the “Ultrasound Sensing Technologies for Medical, Industrial and Consumer Applications” report how the ultrasonic transducer ecosystem will evolve, and how Micro-machined ultrasound transducer (MUT) technologies will rapidly penetrate the ultrasound market.

Power Electronics World invited the gallium nitride (GaN) transistor experts at GaN Systems to provide an introduction to the capabilities of high power density, wide bandgap semiconductors for designers who have worked primarily in silicon technologies. This article is the first in a three-part series. By: Paul Wiener, VP Strategic Marketing, GaN Systems.

An article written by Ian King for Bloomberg - One of the tech industry’s largest ever-deals made it all the way to Beijing, but no further. Qualcomm Inc. has scrapped its $44 billion bid for rival chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV after China failed to approve the deal. The takeover may be the highest profile victim yet of the trade spat between China and the U.S., with every other jurisdiction in the world clearing the bid months ago.