Industry Challenges, Silicon Carbide and Circuit Design
Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio
Content Editor & Technical Writer | Ph.D in Physics | Power Electronics, Renewable Energy, Embedded Systems, Quantum Computing
The lingering impact of the pandemic, the worsening conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and other geopolitical pressures on the industry were top of mind at the recent meeting of Assodel, the Italian Association of Electronics Suppliers. Assodel executive director Diego Giordani, who presided over the gathering of world market experts, acknowledged the near-term hurdles but asserted that the industry is well positioned for the future.
“The next period will be more complicated for companies in the electronics industry, and I see an inevitable slowdown due to several causes,” Giordani warned. “The situation on some components has not improved and is not expected to improve. … production costs [such as?energy] and inflation will slow down consumer demand.
“However, other market signals lead me to believe that we should look to the future with great confidence,” he said. “Electronics is the basic building block for all of the fastest-growing technologies, such as health care, energy production and distribution, mobility, cryptocurrency, and blockchain, just to name a few.” He therefore was guardedly optimistic, even while acknowledging that there are “important variables to keep an eye on — the duration of the war between Ukraine and Russia, for example, and the escalation of the high-tech war between the U.S. and China.”
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