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Top 10 Recent Innovations in the Electronics and Connectors Industries Author: By John MacWilliams, Bishop & Associates Inc.
Source From: Connector Supplier
Posted Date: 2012-02-08
In spite of the drastic changes our industry has experienced in the past decade, including two major recessions and the migration of manufacturing to Asia, electronics and connector designers produced a dazzling array of new products and innovations. The most visible of these developments occurred in CCC: Consumer, Computer, and Communications markets. Our consumer products and behavior are not just updated, they are completely transformed by technology.
What’s enabling this latest wave in the technological revolution? We credit a variety of innovations, modifications, and suddenly essential new devices. We rank the best, most game-changing developments in several categories. If we’ve left out your game-changer, Let us know. You can sound off at the bottom of the page.
We have combined several innovations under a common theme.
Hardware:
WiFi: Its major impact on how we access data at home and on the road.
GPS: Enables pinpoint location accuracy. Revolutionizes mapping. Starts many new applications.
iPhone: Takes world by storm. Creates a huge set of new applications. Revolutionizes mobile phone industry.
iPad: After many failed attempts, a new, breathtaking way to access and view digital multimedia content.
HDTV: Sea change in TV viewing. Rapid decline of bulky CRT TVs, saving space, weight while enhancing picture quality.
IC Advances: Multi-Core CPUs, MEMS, image sensors, Intel Tri-Gate Transistors, and continued progress of Moore’s Law.
Environmental Electronics: Lead-free soldering is a major paradigm shift for the industry, as are other initiatives.
Alternative Energy Products: HEV/EV/Battery technology, solar panels, evolving infrastructure. New electronic markets.
Military Drones: Hats off to DARPA, who championed this highly productive war technology.
Proverbial Ethernet: Has evolved from its original 802.3 to 1, 10, and 40GbE
Software/Firmware:
Google Search Engine: Perhaps the most productive concept ever developed by man.
iTunes/Amazon.com: Massive shift in how people access music, videos, and reading material.
Mobile Operating Systems: OSX, Android, MSFT. Placing the world at your fingertips, wherever you are.
Google Maps: Visit the world without leaving your living room.
Apple Siri and other Voice Recognition: The beginning of ubiquitous voice input-output
Cloud Computing: Will revolutionize the computer industry and change software delivery forever.
Server Virtualization: Will have a major impact on future server hardware configurations.
Facebook: Say what you want, but Facebook revolutionizes personal interaction, for better or worse.
VoIP: Voice-over-Internet (Skype, Magic Jack, other) will be another nail in the coffin of POTS.
Mac OSX: Combined with iMac, MacBook hardware did the impossible: Made a major dent in Wintel.
Infrastructure:
Broadband Internet: We now have it, but need Internet III ASAP.
Alternative Energy Infrastructure: In its infancy and not without challenges.
Digital Photography: Perhaps the quickest turnover of a venerable industry ever: Film-to-Digital (or Music- and Video-to-Digital).
RFID: Evolving productivity engine from inventory control to POS to the turnpike.
LED Lighting: When fully involved can retire 150-200 power plants in the U.S.
Connectors:
USB: 10 billion/year strong has revolutionized I/O. 3.0 at 4.8Gb/s; future optical USB at 100Gb/s (if you ever need it).
Thunderbolt: 10Gb daisy chaining I/O with a world of applications ahead. Cost may be an issue.
HDMI: In all its iterations, has streamlined video/audio equipment.
SATA: Has made a major contribution to storage, and is portable to SSD.
SDRAM/DIMM/DDR3: Continuing evolution of DRAM to ever-higher bandwidth, in a high tech but economical socket. DDR4 emerging.
PCI Bus: Dating back to 1993, with PCI Express released in 2004, is the de facto standard bus architecture for personal computers.
High-Performance Backplane Connectors: From several companies. Far exceeding gigabit performance levels not thought possible.
SD and Other Flash Storage Connectors: Enabling, via the NAND Flash revolution, a host of portable products and solid-state memory expansion.
Range of High-Speed Active Cable Assemblies and Connectors: CXP-GBIC, SFP, and fixed active optical cable assemblies to 120Gb/s.
