A-level results indicate engineering will remain male-dominated
More girls are studying science at A-level, but a lack of interest in physics indicates the gender demographics of engineering are likely to remain stable for now.
This article was posted on Aug 20, 2019
X-capacitor discharger for IEC60335 home appliances works up to 6µF, and wastes <4mW
Power Integrations is aiming at larger home appliances needing to meet IEC60335 with an X-capacitor discharger that can empty 6µF in under a second.
This article was posted on Aug 20, 2019
Innodisk SSD has MS Azure Sphere integration
Innodisk has brought out an SSD with native Microsoft Azure Sphere integration.
This article was posted on Aug 20, 2019
China’s soaring renewables
In the last ten years China’ wind power electricity generating capacity grew 22x and its solar power capacity grew 700x, says the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
This article was posted on Aug 20, 2019
Woodford sells stake in Ultrahaptics
Neil Woodford, who controversially locked investors into his Equity Income fund, has sold his 20% stake in ultrasound haptic touch specialist Ultrahaptics.
This article was posted on Aug 20, 2019
Wafer scale is back
Wafer scale is back with US start-up Cerebras Systems unveiling an 8 inch by 9 inch wafer scale device designed for AI applications.
This article was posted on Aug 20, 2019
Imec jv said to be supplying photoresist to Samsung
Samsung has found a source of photoresist from a Belgian company believed to be EUV Resist Manufacturing & Qualification Center – an Imec-JSR jv set up three years ago, reports the Nikkei.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Rover PDA has Raspberry Pi brain
Hackaday reports on a Pi-based personal assistant robot built by Saral Tayal.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Chirp announces integration of data-over-sound for Arduino boards
Chirp and Arduino have announced the first official integration of data-over-sound on Arduino’s range of boards.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Engineering graduates among highest-earning
Research carried out by Satsuma has revealed engineering graduates are among the highest-earning professionals three, five and ten years after graduation.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Apple takes Euro hit
Q2 iPhone shipments in Europe fell to 6.4 million from 7.7 million in Q2 2018, says Canalys, accompanied by a reduction in European market share from 17% to 14.1% in 12 months.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Imagination may need cash injection
Imagination says it may need another cash injection from its Chinese-owned private equity owner Canyon Bridge.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Russell Group says UK recruitment of European academics is dropping
The Russell Group of 24 leading UK universities says that although the number of EU academics working in the UK increased by 4% in 2017/18, this was the lowest level of growth for more than a decade.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Panasonic expands conductive polymer capacitor range
Panasonic has added a long-life surface mount type series to its product line of OS-CON Conductive Polymer-Aluminum-Solid Capacitors.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
GloFo sells mask-making assets to Toppan
Globalfoundries has sold some of the manufacturing equipment at its photo mask facility in Burlington Vermont to Toppan Photomasks and will be transferring more mask manufacturing tools to the Advanced Mask Technology Centre (AMTC) jv owned by Toppan and GloFo in Dresden.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
EE is fastest UK mobile operator
EE is the best performing UK mobile network according to RootMetrics which tests mobile network speeds across the UK.
This article was posted on Aug 14, 2019
Next-generation floating tidal turbine gets one step closer
Orbital Marine Power has taken another step towards installing its 2MW floating tidal turbine off Orkney, by engaging Faun Trackway to manufacture the four steel anchor structures, plus bespoke mooring connectors, at Faun’s facilities on Anglesey.
This article was posted on Aug 1, 2019
Stretchy stick-on monitor sends vital signs long-term
Long-term health monitoring of adults, babies and small children without concern for skin injury or allergic reactions is the aim of a project at Georgia Tech, which has produced a stretchy patch that can broadcast electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, respiratory rate and motion activity data.
This article was posted on Aug 1, 2019
THine chipset extends MIPI CS-2 transmission from 1ft to 15m
THine, the Japanese serial interface and image signal processing specialist, has volume availability of a MIPI CSI-2 extension chipset which allows engineers to extend MIPI CSI-2 transmission from 1 foot to over 15 meters.
This article was posted on Aug 1, 2019
Diving DRAM’s durable dominance
Despite a 38% sales decline expected this year, the DRAM market will remain the largest IC product category in 2019 with sales reaching $62 billion, down from $99.4 billion in 2018, says IC Insights.
This article was posted on Aug 1, 2019
Facebook working on non-invasive BCI
Facebook is working on a wearable brain-computer interface (BCI) which will allow people to type words by thinking them.
This article was posted on Aug 1, 2019