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Asthma is a global phenomenon. According to the World Health Organization, Asthma affected an estimated 262 million people in 2019.  In the United States alone, the Centers for Disease Control estimates there are over 4.6 million children under the age of 18 with Asthma.
According to the Global Asthma Report in 2022, Asthma is ""well controlled"" in nearly 2/3rds of adults. That number drops below 45% in children aged 5-14.
While it is the most common chronic disease among children, inhaled medication can control asthma symptoms and allow people with asthma to lead a normal, active life. Not surprisingly, areas of lower to middle income are most affected. What if there was a low-cost, reliable, and portable alternative? What would that do to combat Asthma and other respiratory ailments?
 
How could Microchip Technology help ease the suffering of children around the world?
 
Links from the episode:
Nebulizer Design Solutions | Microchip Technology 
Medical | Microchip Technology 
2023 World Asthma Day - Global Initiative for Asthma - GINA (ginasthma.org) 
 
Guest: Zhang Feng
Zhang Feng | LinkedIn 

The old parable of the country kid moving to the big city and leaving the farm behind is a timeless yarn of youth, ambition, and Hope. In recent years, that trope has become a reality. The number of farmers in the United States alone has been steadily dropping. The percentage of first-generation farmers is close to 78%. It can be a tough business. Climate cycles are becoming unpredictable and, as in many industries, one just can't find enough workers. That’s where integrated circuits come in. One farmer has the ability in today’s world to augment his efforts through sensors, drones, and microcontrollers to compete and run a farm with what might have required a handful of humans in the past. In fact, only about 1 in 4 young farmers still use the traditional methods passed down over the generations. The reason? Automation and the rise of Machine Learning. 
 
How could Microchip Technology help the farm of the future through automation?
 
Links from the episode:
 
 
Guests: 
Ross Satchell 
Toby Sinkinson 

Severe Storms. Wildfires. Floods. According to Statista, there were 421 natural disaster events recorded worldwide in 2022. Among the most damaging are tropical cyclones, what the World Health Organization would refer to as typhoons or hurricanes. As damaging as the wind can be, the greatest damage to life and property is not from the wind, but from secondary events such as storm surges, flooding, landslides, and tornadoes.
 
To combat and prepare for these events, world leaders and local governments try to anticipate early warning signs in advance of the event using satellite, radar, and other advanced technologies. Despite their best efforts, these disasters happen. When they do, communities are affected, and the damage can be extensive. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States, 2023 was the most expensive year on record for billion-dollar climate disasters.
 
What are these towns and municipalities to do? This is where Smart Cities come in.
 
How could Microchip Technology help bring Smart Cities to life?
 
Links from the episode:
Power over Ethernet | Microchip Technology 
 
Guests: 
Alan Jay Zwiren 

When you sit down to eat your next meal, think about how your food got in front of you. Did you grow it yourself or did you buy it from someone? If the latter, was it from a restaurant or a store? Do you ever wonder how it gets from the farm to your plate?
Whether you are a vegan or a die-hard carnivore, your food comes from a farm somewhere. It needs to be grown, harvested, processed, and transported to a place where it is then prepared and offered for sale. This process can be anywhere from days to months and can come from down the road or across oceans and continents. One thing is for certain, it probably involves one or more integrated circuits along the way. 
 
How could Microchip Technology help bring food from the farm to your table?
 
Links from the episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHpe6pvxtag 
 
Guests: 
Ross Satchell 
Toby Sinkinson 

Picture an average night at home. You’re sitting on the couch, remote in hand, maybe with a beverage by your side. You use your remote to navigate through the menu of your favorite streaming platform to select an episode of your favorite TV show. You pause to give a command to your smart speaker to shut off the music you were playing before sitting down. As you watch the show, you recognize an actor you like, but you can’t remember where from, so you grab your mobile phone and run a search in your internet browser. Satisfied with the answer, you speak into your smart watch to set a reminder for later to watch a different show starring the same actor. All the while you are lounging with your feet up and feeling quite relaxed; never thinking about the bank of server blades in a data center far away working tirelessly to power the cloud that brings this convenience to the palm of your hand. Our lives are increasingly dependent on the cloud and whether we realize it or not, those data centers are growing and using an amazing amount of energy.
 
How could Microchip Technology help address the growing need for Data Centers in a sustainable way without compromising our new standard of life?
 
Links from the episode:
I3C® | Microchip Technology 
https://www.mipi.org/knowledge-library/webinars/mipi-i3c-week-exploring-world-of-i3c
 
Guests:
Ashish Makthal 
Max Prasad 

One of the few things every human on this planet, and every other living thing for that matter, shares is the fact that everything gets 1,440 minutes per day. Our planet makes one rotation on its axis, the sun comes up, the sun goes down and we start the dance all over again. Part of the human experience is how we spend that time.
Multiple sources, including the Mayo Clinic and the World Health Organization, suggest humans need 7-10 hours of sleep. The average workday is also 7-10 hours depending on where you live. The time in between can be consumed with breaks from work or between classes, meals, getting ready for the day and getting ready for bed, not to mention time spent commuting to and from work or school; if you have children, they take most of the rest of your time. With only a few precious minutes per day to ourselves, under the best of circumstances, what would an additional 30 of those minutes mean to us? How could Microchip Technology help to create a time machine to give us this part of our lives back?
 
URLs from the episode:
www.microchip.com/inductive-position-sensors
www.microchip.com/thermocouple-ic 
 
Guest: Dr. Mark Smith
Mark Smith | LinkedIn