Analysis

Intelligens Consulting has released new insights into the UK’s rapidly expanding AI-driven data centre market. As AI adoption accelerates, the demand for high-performance computing infrastructure is driving a significant shift in digital investment, presenting lucrative opportunities for investors, landowners, and operators.

Emerging image sensors are being developed with capabilities beyond well-established CMOS detectors, with the possibility of detecting broader parts of the light spectrum that are beyond human vision.

A new Fluke survey has reveals that while 68% of respondents feel the EV industry is behind the adoption curve, 92% remain confident that current standards and regulations will pave the way for long-term success in EV charging infrastructure.

2025 is an exciting year for the wide bandgap semiconductor industry in the backdrop of many advancements in Gallium Nitride (GaN), Silicon Carbide (SiC), and even Aluminium Nitride (AlN). One of the most promising of the ‘big three’ is GaN, with recent developments such as Infineon’s 300mm GaN wafers pioneering this push.

New research from YuLife’s ‘Getting Workplace Wellbeing Right in 2025’ report reveals that women are falling behind men in workplace wellbeing, with financial uncertainty and job stability driving key career decisions in the coming year.

IDTechEx explores semiconductor vs superconducting photodetectors and what comes next in quantum.

Long-time followers of the quantum computing market will know that interest in technology has continued to accelerate. Industry events are attended by an ever more diverse crowd of scientists, engineers, investors, supply chain partners, and prospective end users.

New research from Oxford Economics predicts that quantum computing could give the UK an economy-wide productivity boost of up to 7% by 2045 – equivalent to every worker achieving an additional three weeks’ worth of productivity per year without working an extra hour.

In its 2024 report, Tech Nation revealed that the UK’s tech sector is booming, as it boasts 171 ‘unicorns’ and a market valuation of $1.1 trillion. Although we had the tech boom during the pandemic, which saw many companies demanding IT and technology skills, we later saw things plateau – with mass redundancies at the big five threatening many in the industry. But simultaneously, the rise of AI and technological ...

Data centres and HPC servers are expected to grow gradually in the next years. Both applications are strongly driven by AI. Although the traditional server and networking markets have been weak during 2024, AI servers are growing strongly.