Viewpoint: Connecting with graduate engineers – Tips for employers
Stewart Edmondson, CEO at UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF), shares his experience of supporting more than 750 undergraduates through the UKESF Scholarship Scheme. He considers how employers can de-risk their graduate recruitment process…
This article was posted on Jun 5, 2023Q1 DRAM down 21.2% q-o-q
Q1 DRAM revenues were down 21.2% q-o-q, reports TrendForce, at $9.663 billion – the third quarter in a row for revenues to fall.
This article was posted on Jun 5, 2023Tools for Humanity
Sam Altman (pictured right) CEO of OpenAI, has raised $115 million to start a crypto company which could, one day, provide an income for everyone on the planet.
This article was posted on Jun 5, 2023FPGAs for automotive lidar and cameras
AMD is aiming at automotive edge sensor fusion, for the likes of lidar, radar and 3D surround cameras, with a pair of FPGAs it has just started shipping.
This article was posted on Jun 5, 2023Royal Navy tests quantum navigation sensor from Imperial College
An Imperial College prototype quantum accelerometer has been tested on a Royal Navy ship.
This article was posted on Jun 5, 2023Arm64 instruction set simulator for Embedded Studio
Segger has added an Arm64 instruction set simulator to its latest version of its Embedded Studio integrated development environment.
This article was posted on Jun 5, 2023Viasat acquisition of Inmarsat gets final green light
Viasat can finally complete its acquisition of Inmarsat, following the announcement that the European Commission (EC) has unconditionally approved Viasat’s acquisition of Inmarsat.
This article was posted on Jun 5, 202318% drop in 2023 VR units forecast
An 18.2% y-o-y fall in VR device shipments for 2023 is predicted by TrendForce, with units down to 6.67 million.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023GPUs for wearables and TVs
Imagination Technologies has announced a series of smaller GPUs, but has not publicly released any technical details.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023Battery Show: Structural polymer composites and adhesives for automotive battery packs
Huntsman, owner of the Araldite brand, has developed polyurethane, epoxy and carbon nanotube materials for vehicle battery construction and protection.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023Battery Show: Automated automotive intra-battery current collectors
At the Battery Show in Stuttgart, Interplex will introduce its current collection technology for the inside of electric vehicle batteries.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023Video: Let’s Talk Electronics – BrainChip and MikroE on neuromorphic computing and remote development
At the recent Embedded World 2023, which took place in Nuremberg, Electronics Weekly‘s Group Editor, Clive Couldwell caught up with MikroE and BrainChip to discuss their technologies in more depth.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023China threatens ‘resolute counter-measures’ against Japan
On Monday Japan announced it would ban, as from July “at the earliest”, the export of 23 different kinds of chip manufacturing equipment to China.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023Si interconnect resitivity can be lower than Cu and Ru
Imec has delivered the first experimental evidence that the resistivity of a thin conductor film on a 300mm Si wafer can be lower than that of Cu and Ru, which are currently used in interconnect metallisation schemes.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023$100m raised by UK floating nuclear power plant startup Core Power
Five year-old UK startup Core Power has raised $100 million from maritime industry sources to develop floating nuclear power plants
This article was posted on May 31, 2023Start-up QPT: To be successful with GaN, use RF design techniques
To get the best out of GaN power transistors, which are far faster than silicon or silicon carbide transistors, microwave design techniques including RF simulation is essential, according to Cambridge start-up QPT.
This article was posted on May 31, 2023IBM plan to build 100,000 qubit quantum computer
IBM has announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits.
This article was posted on May 30, 2023484 Melitta coffee machines remade like new in Swansea
Working for consumer brand Melitta, Trojan Electronics in Swansea has rebuilt and repaired warrany returns to create almost 500 like-new bean-to-cup coffee machines.
This article was posted on May 30, 2023China bars Micron ICs destined for key infrastructure
Yesterday, China barred Micron from selling memories to suppliers of key domestic infrastructure following a security review.
This article was posted on May 30, 2023Applied to set up academia-industry R&D centre
Applied Materials intends to build the world’s largest and most advanced facility for collaborative semiconductor process technology and manufacturing equipment R&D.
This article was posted on May 30, 2023Nvidia and Bristol University build Arm-based supercomputer
NVIDIA today announced a supercomputer built on its Arm-based Grace CPU.
This article was posted on May 30, 2023