What caught your eye this week? (Chiplets, Dyson, Lunar landscape)

We’re talking 2026 as the year of the chiplet, Dyson laying off staff in the UK, and a Lunar Surface Proving Ground…

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes, or anything else in the wide world of electronics, that caught their eye…

Caroline Hayes, editor
YorChip predicts 2026 will be the year of the chiplet – Demand for chiplets continues, giving rise to the prediction it will be chiplets with everything within two years.

David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was Dyson talking about possibly laying off 1000 staff in the UK.

Steve Bush, technology editor
Microchip has finally announced a 64bit processor, and has picked the RISC-V instruction set to design it around, although left the door open to Arm architecture versions too. There is an AI-enabled octa-core version for spacecraft use, which can run as four lock-step pairs, and a quad-core for industrial use. The cores have been licensed from RISC-V IP specialist SiFive.

Alun Williams, web editor
What caught my eye was Astrobotic unveiling its Lunar Surface Proving Ground (LSPG) – a constructed moonscape for testing – at its facility in Mojave, California.