Arkwright Scholarship students celebrate at the IET

Last month, 415 students were awarded an Arkwright Scholarship, recognising their accomplishments in engineering study and providing funds to boost their further education. EW reporter Alex McCarthy attended the awards ceremony, held at the IET in London, and spoke with some of the recipients to find out their visions for the future of engineering. Now ...

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Arm looking to sell cyber-security unit

Arm and Gemalto, a subsidiary of Thales, are looking for a buyer for their loss-making cyber-security jv Trustonic. Last year Trustonic lost €8.3 million on sales of €9.3 million. Arm and Gemslto have made loans of  €8.4 million to Trustonic this year. Trustonic has 80 staff headed up by Ben Cade, formerly of Arm. Trustonic has ...

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Record year for fab additions next year

A record amount of IC capacity is forecast to be added in 2021 with  new 300mm wafer fabs expected to open in 2020, two of them in China, reports IC Insights. IC Insights recently released its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report that provides in-depth analyses and forecasts of IC industry capacity by wafer size, by process ...

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On-chip light-source switches wavelengths and colours

Researchers from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Universities of Maryland and Colorado have developed an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) light source which can produce output light that is a very different colour, or wavelength, than the input light. In addition to creating light at visible wavelengths, the OPO simultaneously generates ...

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New substrate material for flexible PCBs

Toray Industries has created a polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) film that maintains the outstanding dielectric characteristics—or low dielectric losses of electrical energy—flame retardancy, and chemical robustness of that polymer while remaining thermally resistant at 40°C higher than conventional counterparts. The new film resists deformation and is dimensionally stable near its melting point. PPS is a super ...

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Ofcom reviews connected home

Full-fibre broadband is now available to around three million homesbut some rural areas are still behind towns and cities for coverage – new data from Ofcom shows. Ofcom’s annual Connected Nations report analyses the availability of broadband and mobile services across the UK and its nations. This year’s report highlights further progress from industry in ...

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Case for PoE HAT for Raspberry Pi mini PC

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a case that will accommodate the PoE HAT design for the Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in an extended case created by Thingiverse user “rrapier” earlier this year, reports geeky-things. The Raspberry Pi 4 PoE Texas Hat 3D printed case is now available to download and has been ...

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