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This week’s podcast: Like so many others, we’re happy to put 2020 behind us, but the past informs the future. We poll our panel of experts on what the world can expect out of the electronics industry in 2021. It’s our Predictions Podcast.

This week’s podcast: The electronics industry is approaching the limits of two fundamental physical barriers, Moore’s Law and Shannon’s Limit. That has some interesting ramifications for nearly every stretch of the global datacommunications network, from undersea cables linking to data centers.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: This week, our podcast is a holiday greeting from EE Times editors around the world — and our families — to you. No matter which holiday you celebrate, sacred or secular, December has become a global gift-giving season. What we want, and our wishes to you, ranging from electronics, to unexpected requests, to good measures of peace, and healing, and joy.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: The capacitive touchscreen was a major leap in HMI, but NextInput is offering further steps: force sensing and gesture. A talk with NextInput CEO Ali Foughi. Also, when we invoke the IoT, we tend to focus on the “things” even though the prerequisite is the “Internet” half of the equation. A discussion on how wireless LANs are enabling some of the biggest IoT applications to date.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: Xilinx's Gen 3 RFSoC is aimed at inherently finicky RF applications like 5G and radar; Pentek founder Roger Hosking talks with us about getting the most performance out of this family of FPGAs. Also, Qualcomm revealed its latest Snapdragon, certain to be heading for hundreds of millions of 5G handsets in China and around the world; a discussion with analyst Jim McGregor about the auspiciously designated 888 (triple fortune in China).

The automotive industry was once so wrapped up in fully autonomous driving that it still hasn’t quite figured out what should be doing today now that full autonomy has been pushed back. The near-term focus has shifted to assisted driving (or ADAS), but one industry expert thinks ADAS won’t work nearly as well as it could unless it is paired with driver monitoring systems. This week, a conversation with the opinionated and persuasive Colin Barnden.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: The wearables category is one of the hottest new markets in electronics; we talk with Jérôme Mouly, an analyst with Yole Développement about how the market is going to get hotter. Also, a report from the Double Summits in Shenzhen. The CEO Summit brings some of the top industry leaders from around the world, while the Distribution Summit provides insights into the unglamorous but absolutely critical business of maintaining global supply chains.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: The U.S. election dragged on far longer than usual, in part to count mail-in ballots, and in part because of the controversy regarding mail-in voting. This week we talk with the company that safeguards mail-in ballots with AI-based signature verification technology, and also with a policy expert about the ramifications of using that technology.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: It is almost impossible to create a modern product in a reasonable amount of time without models of hardware, or models of software, or – increasingly – models of both before anything is actually built or coded. How that works in practice is one of the marvels of modern engineering. A discussion with Altair SVP Pete Darnell. Also, Leti in France just began collaborating with Intel on advanced chip packaging. A discussion with EE Times newest contributor, Don Scansen.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: AMD is buying Xilinx for $35B. Does the deal make sense? A chat with Tirias Research analyst Kevin Krewell. Also, a discussion with execs from IBM and Synopsys on their ambitious plans to create an entire ecosystem for artificial intelligence research. With IBM Research VP Mukesh Khare and Synopsys VP Arun Venkatachar.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: It is the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the word “robot.” This week, a free-wheeling conversation with science fiction author Mark Niemann-Ross about robots, fictional and real. Also, EE Times has just published a book that we’re rather proud of. Called “Sensors in Automotive.” We talk about that.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: Uri Adoni has been a CEO of MSN Israel, a partner in one of the more prominent venture capital funds in Israel, and is the author of the new book “The Unstoppable Startup; Mastering Israel’s Secret Rules of Chutzpah.” We talk about why startups succeed – or fail, why some countries are better at supporting startups than others, and (of course) what “chutzpah” actually means.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: An interview with Keith Jackson, who in 2002 was named CEO of On Semiconductor, basically the shell of what had been Motorola’s Semiconductor Component Group, and grew it into a Fortune 500 company. He just announced his retirement. Also, we talk with Intel Mobileye executive Jack Weast about a new formalized approach to safer autonomous driving. And, what to expect at the IoT Security Virtual Conference & Expo.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: Congress is trying to figure out how to shore up the U.S. semiconductor industry. We talk with renowned economic historian Chris Miller about the best way to do that. Also, a discussion with IBM Research VP Jeff Wesler about five enormous global challenges that stand a good chance of being solved in the next 5 years.

The Weekly Briefing podcast: We interview Georgia Tech professor Ayanna Howard. Howard is an expert in AI, in robotics, and in how people relate to technology. Also, there’s been a lot of innovative new semiconductor memories, which have not seen a lot of sales – at least not yet. EE Times contributor Gary Hilson covers the memory market; we talk to him about emerging memories. Also, EE Times Editor Nitin Dahad on what to expect from the Boards and Solutions Conference coming up in October.