Honeywell introduced its Hybrid Heating Solution, a flexible, automated way for industrial manufacturers to potentially lower operating costs and carbon emissions by integrating both traditional natural gas and electric energy sources for industrial process heating.

Element Solutions Inc (ESI), announced the completion of its acquisition of the Micromax conductive pastes and inks business, effective February 2, 2026. Micromax will operate within MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions, part of ESI’s Electronics segment.

Every component in power electronics experiences degradation over time, from semiconductors and capacitors to inductors and connectors. Thermal stress, material fatigue, and irreversible entropy processes determine how quickly parts age. Normalized KPIs and visualizations, such as radar plots, help engineers detect wear, plan maintenance, and make realistic lifetime predictions. 

A topological insulator looks like an insulator from the inside but actually functions like a conductor. You can think of a combo of an insulator and a conductor. Surprisingly, topological insulators are compared to the analogy of donuts being similar to a coffee cup! But isn’t such a device weirdly impossible to exist? Well, topological insulators made their inventors win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. They even have their own periodic table!

Non-industrial, household, and EV-related energy storage systems involve a few kilowatts. Whenever megawatts come into play, applications shift from a small household to an entire city. Megawatt-hour (MWh) represents a unit of utility-scale energy storage, a large amount of energy on which the renewable industry thrives.

GlobalFoundries and Renesas Electronics Corporation announced an expanded strategic collaboration through a multi‑billion-dollar manufacturing partnership that broadens Renesas' access to GF technologies including its differentiated technology platforms. This agreement reflects a shared commitment to secure, resilient supply chains and aligns with U.S. priorities to strengthen domestic semiconductor production for economic and national security.

Navitas Semiconductor, a specialist in GaNFast gallium nitride and GeneSiC silicon carbide power semiconductors, announced the launch of its 5th-generation GeneSiC technology platform. The High Voltage SiC Trench-Assisted Planar MOSFET technology represents a significant technological leap over previous generations and will deliver an industry leading 1200V line of MOSFETs.

Wolfspeed, Inc., announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) has formally cleared the Company’s issuance of equity to Renesas Electronics America Inc., completing a key component of Wolfspeed’s previously announced restructuring agreement with its lender group in support of its Chapter 11 process.

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have succeeded in constructing two tandem photovoltaic modules with record efficiencies. A III-V germanium PV module with an efficiency of 34.2%, incorporating solar cells from AZUR SPACE and anti-reflection structures from temicon, thus becomes the most efficient solar module in the world.

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has started providing engineering samples of “TB9104FTG,” a gate driver for bridge circuits used in high-current automotive brushed DC motors, suitable for body system applications such as power back doors, power sliding doors, and power seats.