UKESF female scholars attend WES student conference

For the fourth year in a row, the UKESF has supported final-year female scholars to attend the annual Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Student Conference with all-expenses-paid places. Attendance was sponsored by Enigma, a recruitment company that specialises in the UK technology sector. The University of Warwick hosted the annual conference, which took place between the ...

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Survey: The edge of tomorrow

XMOS is giving away a VocalFusion dev kit for Amazon AVS (XVF3510) to one lucky participant in a new survey. Are you an engineer involved in the spec or design of electronic products or devices? If you work with battery-powered, hand-held, low-power, rugged, consumer or industrial products, this survey is directly relevant to you!  Enter ...

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Intel pays $2bn for Habana Labs

Intel has bought Habana Labs, the Israel programmable deep learning accelerator specialist,  for approximately $2 billion. “Habana turbo-charges our AI offerings for the data center with a high-performance training processor family and a standards-based programming environment to address evolving AI workloads,” says Intel’s Navin Shevoy, “we know that customers are looking for ease of programmability with ...

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Toshiba 100V N-channel mosfets in SOP advance package for automotive

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has launched 100V N-channel power mosfets for automotive applications, available in the surface mount SOP advance (WF) package. Designed for 48V system applications, the devices are suitable use in boost converters for integrated starter generators and LED headlights as well as motor drives, switching regulators and load switches. The XPH6R30ANB device ...

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Millennium Point opens applications for £20,000 STEM grants

Charitable trust Millennium Point has announced a STEM education funding pot of over £400,000, available in individual grants of up to £20,000. The funding is available to schools, charities and not-for-profit organisations across the West Midlands and applications are open until February 14 2020. Profits from the commercial activity of the Birmingham venue is invested ...

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Analogue approach to AI at the edge

TowerJazz and Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology – pictured), have developed an analogue approach to designing AI cores which, they claim, is the only way to get the processing power at the appropriate power levels to deliver AI at the edge. The TowerJazz/Technion approach uses  memristor devices with analogue memory storage using TowerJazz’s Y-Flash ...

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Deep Thinking Unit trains datacentres

Enflame, the Tencent-backed Shanghai AI start-up, and Globalfoundries have produced a deep learning accelerator  for data centre training based on a core called a Deep Thinking Unit (DTU), The DTU is based on GF’s 12LP FinFET platform with 2.5D packaging to deliver fast, power-efficient data processing for cloud-based AI training platforms. The DTU leverages GF’s 12LP ...

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Toray Industries opens R&D centre to tackle climate change

Toray Industries has opened an R&D Innovation Centre for the Future at its Shiga Plant where the company was founded in 1926. Toray president Akihiro Nikkaku said that the centre will address “climate change, water shortages and resource depletion.” The centre comprises two buildings. One will undertake integrated research to generate ideas for revolutionary materials, ...

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CutiePi coming soon

The 8-inch Raspberry Pi and Raspbian tablet is reported to be nearly ready for mass production. The layout and schematics of its motherboard have been finalised, it is has been OSHWA certified and the design files have been published on Github.   The Raspbian image and 3D printable case file will go live this month too.   For ...

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Leti improves performance of thin-film batteries

In a research result that potentially could expand the market for tiny energy-storage units in medical implantable, injectable and wearable solutions,  has fabricated all-solid, inorganic thin-film batteries (TFBs) that demonstrate better performance than existing devices.  “We demonstrate an areal energy density of 890μAh.cm-2, the highest reported so far for such devices,”  says Leti, “furthermore, we ...

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