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Amtech Electrocircuits, a leading provider of manufacturing solutions, is proud to present insights into the key trends driving innovation and growth in 2025. From advanced automation and sustainability to AI integration and supply chain diversification, these trends are setting the stage for the next era of manufacturing excellence.

“These emerging trends align closely with our mission to deliver cutting-edge solutions that enhance efficiency, sustainability, and resilience across the electronics manufacturing industry,” said Jay Patel, CEO at Amtech. “Amtech is here to help our partners seize new opportunities and drive success in 2025 and beyond.”

Top Trends to Watch in 2025:

1. AI and Machine Learning Integration: Transforming processes like predictive maintenance, automated quality control, and production optimization, AI is enhancing efficiency and reducing downtime across the industry.
2. Advanced Automation and Robotics: Collaborative robots (cobots) and lights-out manufacturing are revolutionizing production by enabling autonomous, high-throughput operations with minimal human intervention.
3. Reshoring and Regionalization: Companies are prioritizing local manufacturing to mitigate global uncertainties and build resilient supply chains with faster lead times.
4. Sustainability and Circular Economy: Greener practices, energy efficiency, and resource recycling are driving the shift toward a circular economy, ensuring environmental and economic benefits.
5. Smart Manufacturing and IoT: Real-time data from interconnected devices in smart factories is powering predictive analytics and better decision-making, elevating productivity and quality.
6. Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing): Moving beyond prototyping, 3D printing is enabling the production of complex components with reduced waste, particularly in high-value sectors like aerospace and medical devices.
7. High-Mix, Low-Volume Production: Flexible production systems are meeting the growing demand for customized solutions without compromising efficiency or quality.
8. Enhanced Cybersecurity Measures: With connected systems comes the need for robust cybersecurity to protect sensitive data and ensure operational integrity.
9. Workforce Transformation: Upskilling employees to work alongside advanced technologies and addressing labor shortages through automation are reshaping the manufacturing workforce.
10. Global Supply Chain Diversification: Exploring alternative sourcing strategies and partnerships is critical to building supply chain resilience and agility.

Amtech is dedicated to supporting its customers as they navigate these trends and transform their operations. With innovative solutions tailored to high-mix, low-volume production, sustainability initiatives, and smart manufacturing technologies, Amtech helps businesses embrace change and position themselves as industry leaders.

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Right before I packed up the device to get it mailed out, a fault showed up in the hours section where one of the hours nixie was displaying a 0 and a 6 at the same time, ended up doing last minute debugging, reinforcing the frame supporting the components, adjusted the wires on the 5vdc power rail to prevent shorts, etc. Mailed the device out yesterday, and am waiting on bated breath that the thing shows up in Hawaii in working order. Fingers crossed! At any rate, based on some questions on my original post, some people wanted the schematics to this clock. I tried to scan the schematic as an image and will post it here for reference. Note that the microcontroller came preprogrammed and I don’t have the source code. The most important thing is the BCD decoder and nixie drivers. You can use any generic MPU or controller you want. In this implementation, the only inputs to the BCDs are the serial clock (SCK), receive clock (RCK), and serial data (SI) for each hour and minutes display. Serial clear (SCLR) are tied hi to 5v rail, and the output enable (G) is tied low to ground, basically always keeping the outputs enabled to the nixie driver. There are many many things you can do with a 8bit BCD; a nixie clock is one of those things. For this implementation, you’d just have to write a program for your favorite controller (arduino, esp32, etc) to provide the SCK, RCK, and SI signals (as per the timing diagram outlined in the HC595 data sheet) for each hours, minutes, and seconds of the nixie display. I also posted another picture of other clock kits I bought from AliExpress. I can’t stop buying shit from that place. It’s like a drug lol. With that said, I really miss the clock I sent off to my grandpa, and I kinda want one for myself. So much so, that I’m planning to buy another kit from fecking AliExpress and give this another go to see if I can make this one better, or it’s still going to be ugly haha submitted by /u/Asuntofantunatu [link] [comments]

After the release of DeepSeek’s R1, a reasoning LLM that matches the performance of OpenAI’s latest o1 model, trade media is abuzz with speculations about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Has the AI bubble burst? Is it the end of Nvidia’s spectacular AI ride?

EE Time’s Sally Ward-Foxton takes a closer look at the engineering-centric aspects of this talk of the town, explaining how DeepSeek tinkered with AI models as well as interconnect bandwidth and memory footprint. She also provides a detailed account of Nvidia’s chips utilized in this AI head-turner and what it means for Nvidia’s future.

Read the full story at EDN’s sister publication, EE Times.

 

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BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia — which develops and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diodes based on its proprietary low-temperature, low-hydrogen remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology — has filed three US patent applications (provisional patents) for next-generation high-power tunable GaN lasers, and published its results in a technical paper presented at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA...

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• 1st PPA in France for STMicroelectronics, aiming at 100% renewable sourcing by 2027
• Power comes from 2 recent wind and solar farms of 75 MW operated by TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies and STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, have signed a physical Power Purchase Agreement to supply renewable electricity to STMicroelectronics sites in France. This 15-year contract, started in January 2025, represents an overall volume of 1.5 TWh.

TotalEnergies will provide STMicroelectronics with the renewable power (including the guarantee of origin) produced by two recent wind and solar farms of 75 MW operated by TotalEnergies. This power comes with structuration services to transform intermittent production in a constant volume (“baseload”) of green electricity. It’s the first time in France that such a 15-year contract is provided. The positive impact of the wind and solar projects on the environment and on the communities was a key success factor in the signing of the deal. 

“We are delighted to sign this agreement with STMicroelectronics, which demonstrates our ability to provide long-term and innovative clean firm power solutions tailored to our customers’ needs,” said Sophie Chevalier, Senior Vice President Flexible Power & Integration at TotalEnergies. “TotalEnergies aims to be a preferred partner to support tech industry players towards their decarbonization efforts, and this agreement showcases our commitment and capabilities.” 

“This first PPA in France marks yet another important step towards ST’s goal of becoming carbon neutral in its operations (Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and partially scope 3) by 2027, including the sourcing of 100% renewable energy by 2027,” said Geoff West, EVP and Chief Procurement Officer at STMicroelectronics. “PPAs will play a major role in our transition, and we have already signed several to support ST’s operations in Italy and Malaysia. Starting in 2025, this PPA with TotalEnergies will provide a significant level of renewable energy for ST’s operations in France, which includes R&D, design, sales and marketing and large-volume chip manufacturing.”

TotalEnergies and electricity

As part of its ambition to get to net zero by 2050, TotalEnergies is building a world class cost-competitive portfolio combining renewables (solar, onshore and offshore wind) and flexible assets (CCGT, storage) to deliver clean firm power to its customers. By mid-2024, TotalEnergies’ gross renewable electricity generation installed capacity reached 24 GW. TotalEnergies will continue to expand this business to reach 35 GW in 2025 and more than 100 TWh of net electricity production by 2030.

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Atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment provider and materials science company Forge Nano Inc of Thornton, CO, USA has completed its new 2000ft2 semiconductor cleanroom, which enables it to manufacture multiple commercial TEPHRA ALD cluster tools to accommodate growing demand from the semiconductor market...

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Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that its new CoolSiC Automotive MOSFET 1200V has been selected by Germany-based international automotive supplier FORVIA HELLA for its next-generation 800V DC–DC charging solution...

Quantum Science Ltd of Daresbury, Warrington, UK — which is developing and commercializing INFIQ infrared quantum dot (QD) nanomaterials and technologies for infrared imaging and sensing markets — is expanding into a new manufacturing facility as it prepares for upcoming growth in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging and sensing markets...