Both hardware and software dominate the embedded industry and have evolved to keep pace with new technologies' latest innovations. With the close of 2020 coming closer, most of those new embedded innovations take the form of more powerful microcontrollers and efficient toolsets that make development quick and easy. RISC and Java architectures have become more prominent within embedded systems, as well as single-board computers (SBCs) that can tackle today’s communications requirements. In this roundup, we will take a look at the latest embedded technologies to hit the market in 2020.