Prof. Lucy Rogers PhD will host the Engineering Edge, a podcast created by RS Components which promises to interview engineers “from the primal to the professional” and find out how they use technology to make things better. The former BBC Robot Wars judge and co-presenter of DesignSpark’s History Makers and the DesignSpark podcast is going ...
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Segger has launched J-Link Wi-Fi, an addition to its family of debug probes. Owing to its USB and Wi-Fi interfaces, the variation can be used by any software that’s compatible with the original product family. Removing the physical connection between the debug probe and the host opens up applications in robots, vehicles, drones, or other ...
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UKESF and the University of Southampton have collaborated on a project to promote electronics at school level called Electronics Everywhere. “Companies can make a real difference” by supporting the project, UKESF says. The organisation is investing in schools by providing its Electronics Everywhere resources to schools across the UK. The program is designed to demonstrate ...
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Scientists from Cardiff University have spotted previously unseen “instabilities” on the surface of GaAs ICs. The new findings, have revealed how the surface of GaAs devices is not as stable as previously thought. Cardiff University’s School of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Compound Semiconductors, have identified small pockets of instability in the atomic structure of ...
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Washington is leaning on Taipei to instruct TSMC to stop fabbing Huawei’s ICs, reports the FT. Sales to China represent about 20% of TSMC’s total sales and it is thought that about half of that 20% is accounted for by sales to Huawei. Under the current China-sceptic administration in Taiwan, it is thought thst little ...
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Germany should install a million EV charging points by 2030, says Chancellor Angela Merkel. Today the Chancellor is meeting the German car industry to work out how the country can move faster to EVs. “For this purpose, we want to create a million charging points by the year 2030 and the industry will have to ...
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Waymo, Google’s autonomous driving arm, is offering selected people free driverless taxi rides in a geo-fenced area of Phoenix. The taxis do not have a safety driver. Waymo is the most advanced exponent of driverless car technology according to the monitoring process run by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which found that Waymo cars ...
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Q3 semiconductor sales were up 8.2% over Q2 at $106.7 billion, reports the SIA. September sales were up 3.4% over August sales at $35.6 billion but 14.6% down on September 2018. “Following months of slower sales earlier in the year, the global semiconductor market rebounded somewhat in the third quarter of 2019,” says SIA CEOJohn ...
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This year’s Raspberry Pi competition from PA Consulting tasks students in years 4–13 to create the sustainable city of tomorrow. Teams will compete in one of four categories, depending on their academic years. The categories are: Years 4–6 , Years 7–9, Years 10–11, Years 12–13. Three finalists from each category will be invited to the PA Raspberry Pi Awards ...
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