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Apple has integrated 5G into all four newly announced iPhones. In the launching event, Apple demonstrated a fast speed up to 4 Gbps on the iPhone 12 Pro, even when networks are crowded. The news certainly sent a positive signal to the 5G industry, but many challenges await before 5G becomes ubiquitous.

Virtual reality has already had a major impact in a range of different industries. IDTechEx predicted in its recent market research report that this technology will grow to $8bn by 2030. One way that virtual reality has been used is in planning. VR technologies have recently been shown by an article in the Financial Times to be used by the City of London Corporation to help with planning decisions for future office areas.

Printed/flexible electronics is a constantly evolving area with extensive scope for innovation. Here, IDTechEx has outlined three of the most exciting technological highlights in the sector. These innovations span from technically advanced materials to novel manufacturing methodologies, covering a diverse set of applications that range from OLED displays to wearable healthcare patches.

Energy storage is a broad term and the energy can be stored in different forms. With the mature application of consumer electronics, rapid progress of electric vehicles, and fast adoption of stationary energy storage systems, energy storage (especially electrochemical energy storage) has attracted tremendous attention from the public.

One day solar ‘power stations’ as we know them will be banned and agrivoltaics will grow. On land and lake, no more blinding of large areas with black solar panels, throttling life. Substituting vast industrial desolation for a natural paradise or prime agriculture ruins tourism and the planet. It will become illegal or at least bad business because the new vertical photovoltaics boosts farming, obscures little and acts as a useful wi...

The printed electronic materials market is forecast to be widely adopted in applications ranging from medical devices to smart packaging. This technological transition provides extensive opportunities for innovative materials including, amongst others, novel OLED emitters, conductive inks, and conductive adhesives.

Since its emergence at the end of 2019, the COVID-19 virus has had an unprecedented impact on people and economies the world over. At IDTechEx, we cover emerging technologies and industry trends, and the COVID-19 pandemic has had a direct or indirect impact on all of them. In this article, we will describe some of the key roles that these technologies have played in 2020.

2020 has been a hugely challenging year for businesses around the world as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The automotive industry is no exception, with lockdowns forcing the temporary closure of many production facilities and an uncertain economic environment negatively impacting consumer demand.

Designers of space-constrained designs can now increase runtime with the MAX20361 single-/multi-cell solar harvester with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) from Maxim Integrated Products. The small solar harvesting solution is well suited for space-constrained applications such as wearables and emerging internet of things (IoT) applications.

The most revolutionary aspect of 5G network relies on the high frequency 5G technologies, i.e. mmWave 5G. At such high frequency, using low loss materials to reduce the signal loss becomes essential.