Electronic Specifier Insights
Electronic Specifier Insights is the podcast where the people shaping the electronics industry sit down to talk shop. Each episode features conversations with engineers, innovators, and industry leaders covering the latest product launches, emerging market trends, and the technical challenges design engineers are grappling with day to day. Whether it’s a deep dive into new silicon, a look at where the supply chain is heading, or a candid chat about what’s next in test and measurement, connectivity, or power electronics, Electronic Specifier Insights brings you the perspectives that matter – straight from the source.
NI Days UK 2026
This year’s NI Days UK, held in Birmingham, marked a milestone double celebration for NI and parent company Emerson: 50 years of NI and 40 years of LabVIEW. Across this series, Electronic Specifier reports on the announcements from the keynote stage alongside exclusive interviews with senior NI and Emerson executives.
The Women in Tech column
This series brings together all the interviews from the Electronic Specifier Design magazine’s women in tech column. It spotlights the inspiring stories, career insights, and expert perspectives of women and allies shaping the future of electronics and technology. For anyone passionate about diversity, inclusion, and innovation in the tech industry, this is essential reading.
Nanotechnology explained
This series focuses on the exploration of nanometre technology, from its history and unique physical behaviours to cutting-edge applications. Covering nanomaterials, emerging innovations, and the future of nano, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the technology.
Microchips
The Microchips series provides a clear, technical introduction to microchip technology – exploring the different types of microchips available and the wide range of applications they power across modern electronics. Essential reading for engineers, designers, and tech professionals looking to deepen their understanding of microchip fundamentals.
Electronic Specifier Design: inside the latest issue
Every month, Electronic Specifier rounds up the highlights of its newly released digital magazine, giving readers a quick guided tour before they dive into the full issue. Each instalment walks through what’s inside, including the lead editorial take on a major industry topic, regular columns such as STEM Spotlight, Women in Tech and Obsolescence, plus that month’s core technical features spanning power electronics, semiconductors, IoT, AI, and test and measurement. It is designed to help busy engineers and industry professionals quickly gauge what is worth their time, with a link to the full digital edition for anyone who wants to read on.
Engineering reality checks
Lou Farrell’s contributions to Electronic Specifier form a recurring analysis series that surfaces overlooked or underappreciated engineering problems across the electronics manufacturing landscape, with titles that signal a “here’s what nobody’s talking about” angle — the hidden costs of chip-manufacturing positioning errors, an unspoken accuracy crisis in ultra-miniaturised wearables, the understated importance of electrical safety in consumer electronics, and the engineering adaptations needed for next-gen devices, plus many more.
Engineering explainers
Zac Amos’s contributions to Electronic Specifier form a recurring problem-and-solution series that walks design engineers through the practical challenges of building secure, efficient, next-generation hardware — spanning cybersecurity (radio comms hardening, side-channel attacks, data-in-transit, embedded Linux flaws, Edge AI vulnerabilities), AI and compute (processor selection, medical imaging), and sustainability/infrastructure (data centre water consumption, smart grid stream processing, wearable battery life, industrial IoT connectivity).
Engineering interviews
Diego de Azcuénaga’s ‘Engineering interviews’ series for Electronic Specifier pairs technical explainer journalism with direct input from the engineers and executives behind each innovation, translating complex subject matter into accessible articles. The series spans a broad swath of the electronics industry — power, automotive, test & measurement, wireless, and AI — giving Electronic Specifier’s readership a recurring, source-driven lens into how new components and architectures get built and why they matter.
International Women in Engineering Day
To mark International Women in Engineering Day, Electronic Specifier presents a dedicated series spotlighting the women driving innovation across the electronics industry – from semiconductor design and power electronics to IoT and embedded systems. Through interviews, profiles, and first-person perspectives, the series explores the varied career paths, technical achievements, and everyday challenges of engineers and industry leaders working at the cutting edge of technology, while examining what still needs to change to build a more inclusive engineering workforce.