Toshiba is now thinking about IPO-ing its memory division if the €18 billion bid by the Bain-Hynix consortium does not get regulatory approval by the end of March, reports the FT. There is a good chance that the regulatory approvals will not be obtained and Toshiba will then go for the Plan B option which ...
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The Ariel Motor Company of Crewkerne in Somerset has won a £6 million grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre. Ariel is building a gas-turbine-electric 1,180bhp car capable of 0-100mph in 3.8 seconds. The Ariel Hipercar started as a project put up, by Ariel, to Innovate UK under Innovate’s low-carbon vehicle R&D initiative. Ariel received a ...
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The contraction of Japan’s semiconductor industry has led to some creative new uses being found for disused fabs. Growing vegetables, particularly lettuce, has been introduced at several old fabs, but never before has a fab been turned into a winery. Hiroshi Matsuzaka, the president of the Enzan Factory Company, has turned a semiconductor fab ...
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Horiba Automotive Test Services has supplied a four wheel drive (4WD) rolling road to Mahle Powertrain to simulate driving conditions at high altitudes. The 4WD chassis dynamometer, or rolling road, is in Mahle’s new Real Driving Emissions Centre (RDEC). The Vulcan II 4WD ExtraCold unit, will be used in a variable control temperature and humidity ...
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We are very pleased to confirm the place of techUK’s director, Paul Hide, on the EW BrightSparks 2018 selection panel. EW BrightSparks is a programme, run in partnership with RS Components, to highlight talented young electronic engineers in the UK. Paul, you may remember was a mainstay of the panel for the 2017 EW BrightSparks programme. He ...
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On the occasion of its 30th anniversary and the shipment of its four billionth chip, Peregrine Semiconductor has changed its name to pSemi. The Murata company has announced that it will broaden its scope and portfolio to include power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF front end products. “We’ve challenged the ...
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Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots. It allows molecular machines to move a hundred thousand times faster than with the biochemical processes used to date. This makes nanobots fast enough to do assembly line work in molecular factories. “By applying electric fields, we can ...
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Next week at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, French research centre Leti will demonstrate a new curving technology for optical components that widens field of view and compensates for optical aberrations. Called Pixcurve, it is a proof of concept for optical components such as microdisplays, visible imagers and cooled infrared sensors used in mobile ...
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MIPS, provider of the eponymous processor architecture and IP cores, is once again in Silicon Valley, following the acquisition of MIPS from Imagination Technologies by Tallwood Venture Capital and Paxion Capital Partners. Tallwood’s managing director, Dado Banatao and Nicholas Brathwaite, founding partner of Riverwood Capital and WRV Capital, will represent Paxion on the board of ...
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Closer ties between Britain and France are on the political agenda as both countries look to develop strong positions in new digital technologies such as artificial intelligence. UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Matt Hancock has announced plans for a digital conference to promote closer co-operation with France in the digital economy. The digital ...
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