electronica opened in Munich on 10 November and runs to the 13th, with around 3,500 exhibitors from some 60 countries across all 18 halls of the exhibition centre. SEMICON Europa runs in parallel in a further two and a half halls.
The organisers have kept “Empowering the All Electric Society” as the framing, with energy efficiency as the connecting theme; exhibition director Caroline Pannier calls it a key requirement for the industry. The supporting programme includes a Power Electronics Forum covering wide-bandgap devices, digital power management and smart energy, an industrial internet-of-things forum, a circular economy forum, and an automotive conference held the day before the show on electromobility, bidirectional charging and vehicle-to-grid.
Component shows are where a supply situation becomes legible. A datasheet tells you what a part does; a stand tells you whether the application engineer is confident about delivering it next year. In a market where several vendors have said publicly that demand exceeds supply, those conversations are worth more than the product launches.
For power electronics specifically this is the most useful week of the year in Europe. Silicon carbide and gallium nitride devices, gate drivers, magnetics and the measurement equipment needed to characterise them are all on the same floor, which is the one setting where comparing two switching solutions does not require ordering two evaluation boards and waiting.
One practical note for anyone going: the automotive conference ran on 9 November, the day before the show opened, so the parts of the programme about bidirectional charging and vehicle-to-grid are already behind us. The forums on the show floor run throughout the week.
Source: audioXpress