Pat Hindle, MWJ Editor

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Yole Développement just released a comprehensive report on the RF power device market and here are the highlights from their article. They expect the market to recover in coming years due to increasing demand for telecom base station upgrades and small cell implementations. Overall market revenue could potentially increase 75% by the end of 2022, posting a CAGR of 9.8% from 2016-2022.

Smart clothing is emerging as a very interesting application for IoT. Last week, the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) opened in Cambridge, MA near the MIT campus.

This is the first year that NIWeek has taken place in late May instead of its normal early August time slot and switches permanently to this part of the calendar. NIWeek 2017 kicked off with new CEO Alex Davern paying tribute to Dr. T with a standing ovation from the audience. Read this full summary of NIWeek 2017.

Qualcomm engineers have recently completed initial testing of drones on commercial 4G LTE networks at the Qualcomm UAS Flight Center in San Diego. They evaluated key performance indicators (KPIs) such as coverage, signal strength, throughput, latency, and mobility under various scenarios on commercial LTE networks.

I look forward to this every year, when NI releases its annual Automated Test Outlook. The 2017 report reviews the key technologies impacting automated test environments from reconfigurable test instrumentation to software-centric test platforms and ecosystems for next-generation device test.

This year has seen a fast adoption of new additive manufacturing techniques in the electronics industry. These techniques are mostly 3D printing processes but others, such as ultrasonic bonding, have also been adopted. Check out this summary of innovative technologies we have come across this year in the area of 3D printing and additive manufacturing.