What caught your eye? (November sales, Nvidia, Nokia, Solar cooking)

Electronics Weekly The team shares some observations – their picks of the week in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wider electronics world that caught their attention…

Caroline Hayes, editorI would choose Sale of semi-finished products in November According to SIA, the growth was more than 20% year on year.

David Manners, Components Editor
What caught my attention this week was NVIDIA launches a new line consumer GPUs.

Steve Bush, Technology Editor
Maybe solar cooking economically replace charcoal and wood-fired cooking? Coventry University teamed up with Rwandan organizations to find, create and install solar electric cookers in a town called East Kayonza, and then study the overall impact of them.

Alan Williams, web editor
What caught my eye was the first cellular network on the moon. Nokia has announced the final integration of its Lunar Surface Communications System (LSCS) with Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lander.

As a second question, which is more about space communications, what about the European Space Agency and Telesat claiming to be the world’s first 5G direct connection To non-geostationary spacecraft? Specifically, did they connect to a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite using 5G extraterrestrial network (NTN) technology?

What caught your attention in the electronics world this week? Leave a comment below.