Electronics stories

AliExpress boosts its UK Brand+ price promise, lifting per-item refunds to GBP £40 and monthly claim caps to GBP £160 on select goods.

Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne, 92, will headline the Computer History Museum's Apple@50 launch, reflecting on the tech giant's origins.

Fashion and electronics see the sharpest online price swings, as Decodo data shows retailers repricing items every few hours worldwide.

US holiday online sales hit a record USD $257.8 billion as shoppers shifted to mobiles, Buy Now Pay Later and generative AI search tools.

Social media fuelled a Black Friday boom in the UK, as Rithum data showed global social sales soaring 152% and online spend up 27%.

Retailers brace for a “Christmas Returns Hangover” as eDesk reports a 45% spike in return requests from 26 December, denting profits.

Onton secures USD $7.5 million seed funding to grow its AI-powered shopping platform, aiming to simplify online product search and expand globally.

Archer has achieved electrical control and readout of its quantum single electron transistors, advancing towards a working carbon-based quantum qubit.

Archer and Emergence Quantum have partnered to develop graphene-based quantum devices, aiming to commercialise innovations in quantum technology and advanced electronics.

Ecommpay teams up with humm to offer flexible finance up to GBP £3,000 for UK merchants, boosting sales in travel and high-value retail sectors.

Adobe forecasts US online holiday spending to reach a record USD $253.4 billion in 2025, up 5.3%, with mobile shopping and AI playing key roles.

Siemens has joined the CHERI Alliance to advance cybersecurity in Electronic Design Automation by promoting hardware-enforced memory safety technology.

US Prime Day online sales soared to USD $24.1bn, a 30.3% rise year-on-year, with mobile shopping driving over half of the revenue during the July event.

Taboola advises SMBs to prepare early and use targeted strategies to succeed in Amazon Prime Day 2025, running from 8-14 July as a four-day event.

Siemens launches Innovator3D IC suite and Calibre 3DStress to aid designers tackling complex 2.5D and 3D IC architectures with early stress analysis.

Siemens has integrated Arm's new Zena Compute Subsystems into its PAVE360 platform, accelerating AI-driven software development for automotive design.

Siemens launches Systems Modeler for SysML v2, a web-based tool boosting collaborative engineering across mechanical, electrical, and software domains.

Siemens launches AI-powered PADS Pro Essentials and Xpedition Standard software to simplify PCB design for small and mid-sized electronics businesses.

The electronics and semiconductor materials market is set to more than double from USD $58.0bn in 2023 to USD $119.8bn by 2034, driven by tech advances and digitisation.

Global semiconductor revenue surged to USD $626 billion in 2024, driven by strong demand for GPUs and AI processors, according to Gartner.