Fierce Electronics' fifteen most-read articles in 2020

COVID-19 dominated the news in 2020, but our readers also showed strong interest in articles showcasing advanced technology.

It’s noteworthy that two articles on John Deere, which is leveraging the power of AI to help make farming more efficient, sustainable and profitable, grabbed two spots in the top 15, while an article on CNH's self-driving tractors grabbed a slot. Clearly, it's a testament to our engineering audience’s interest in real-world applications involving the industrial IoT, AI and machine learning.

To come up with the most-read articles we published this year, we are using Google Analytics, a metric that tracks article page views. The list appears below, in rank order.

1. How John Deere Got Good at AI

2. COVID-19: Gates warns against mass gatherings before virus vaccinations

3. Coronavirus could cripple electronics industry

4. CNH self-driving tractors to dodge deer, fallen trees with AI

5. Deere shows off smart weed control machine that relies on AI with Nvidia chip

6. ams AG – Accurate coronavirus test results in minutes with a life-saving application of chip-scale spectral

7. Intel investors flee as CEO Bob Swan sings the XPU song

8. Viewing the ancient Maya through LiDAR

9. With COVID-19 when can we get back to normal?

10. COVID-19 ventilator ramp-up marshals engineering army

11. What is single pair Ethernet?

12. How AI chips will explode 3X by 2025 with startups like Hailo, Syntiant and Groq

13. Crowd temp screening is a joke, one tech expert says

14. Qualcomm moves IOT to smart building access with temp scanner

15. Wearable blood pressure sensor edges closer to reality