This week, the Insiders recap a COVID-era Consumer Electronics Show and debate one of CES’s hottest topics: the metaverse. Broadly speaking, the metaverse could be an in-between where physical reality and virtual reality collide, or it could be an entirely digital alternate universe.

With more active devices today than ever, data is growing at exponential rates and systems are becoming more sophisticated and ever-more complex.

By now everyone’s aware we are in the midst of a global semiconductor shortage. Some experts predict it will come to an end before 2022 is up. Others say it will last well into 2023. But the electronics industry needs supply chain solutions, not predictions. And hopefully those solutions can also help prevent such shortages in the future.

Intermolecular, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany-based Merck KGaA, recently announced an atomic layer deposition (ALD) GeAsSeTe OTS for 3D vertical memory arrays.