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Category: 
Overall Excellence > Magazine of the Year > 12 or More Issues per Year

Title of entry: 
Magazine of the Year

Issue or Publication date:
October 2025, November 2025, December 2025

Publication name: 
IEEE Spectrum

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/

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IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine and website of the IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization for engineers and technologists. Spectrum’s print edition is sent monthly to the IEEE’s 500,000 members. The website posts a daily mix of news, features, commentary, and multimedia, attracting about 1 million visitors a month. Our mission: to keep people informed about major developments in technology, engineering, and science. Our readers want complex concepts explained in plain, jargon-free language, with details they can’t get elsewhere. They count on Spectrum for thoughtful discussion of technology’s social impacts as well as expert analysis of trends and cutting-edge research.
In print, themed issues like our "Scale" edition showcase our ability to illuminate the fundamental engineering challenges that define progress. This issue explored how engineers master scale across extraordinary ranges, whether sequencing 1.8 million species' genomes or measuring the absence of matter in a vacuum. Compelling infographics by renowned designer Carl De Torres helped readers grasp concepts that defy normal comprehension: hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, immense interstellar distances, and the ballooning energy demands of AI.
Our November issue featured a special report on a “hot” topic in semiconductors: ever-increasing device densities have fomented a crisis in the industry. With new GPUs consuming more than 1,000 watts each, heat is now one of computing’s biggest problems. IEEE Spectrum editors Dina Genkina and Samuel K. Moore sounded the alarm in “The Hot, Hot Future of Chips,” a package of four feature articles that detail what the problem is, how bad it is likely to become, and its possible solutions. To deliver an exclusive and deeply probing report on this subject, Moore relied on an extensive list of industry experts assembled over decades covering semiconductors.
The December issue featured coverage of Hyundai’s massive Metaplant manufacturing complex in Georgia, which became briefly and internationally famous when U.S. immigrations officials raided a huge battery plant being constructed on the site and detained dozens of South Korean workers. Our story did not focus on the raid (we had already covered that extensively), but rather focused on the astonishing capabilities of the Metaplant, arguably the most advanced auto manufacturing facility in the world. Granted unprecedented access to the new plant, we sent two of the best automotive journalists in the country, writer Lawrence Ulrich and photographer Christopher Payne. They delivered a report that vividly and powerfully conveys the astonishing capabilities and resources of a state-of-the-art car making plant.