Prism Electronics celebrates 30 years in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire-based Prism Electronics is celebrating 30 years manufacturing PCB assemblies. Based in St Ives, Prism’s products are using in instrumentation, medicine, transportation, communications, security, telemetry and industrial applications. It was established in 1991 when David Aspinall and Richard Walton arranged a management buy-out of their employer’s manufacturing division. “Contract electronics manufacturing was not yet well ...

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Segger adds an IoT operating system: emPower OS

Segger has created an operating system for industrial and IoT products, building it on its existing tool portfolio. “The emPower OS software package includes all core components: RTOS, GUI and file System, and communication software: TCP/IP, USB device, USB host and Modbus, as well as IoT Toolkit, security and compression modules,” according to the company. ...

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5kV 3 phase PSU for industry

XP Power has announced a series of three-phase 5kW ac-dc power supplies aimed at industrial electronics, process control, semiconductor fabrication, medical devices, LED lighting, water treatment, test and burn-in. Designed to run from inputs across 180 to 264Vac with full load, the supplies need an earth connection but not, the company emphasises, a neutral connection. ...

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Tower to share ST Agrate fab

Tower Semiconductor, the Israeli foundry, is to share a 300mm fab with  ST in Agrate. “The key parameter for industrial and economic performance of a fab is its utilization,” says ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery (pictured),  “with Tower we have a great partner for analogue, power and mixed-signal volume manufacturing that will enable us to qualify ...

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University of Cambridge micro-LED company gets £3m

University of Cambridge micro-LED spin-out Porotech has raised £3m towards the development of its production technique and to develop its own supply chain ecosystem to help develop and produce products. Despite only spinning out in January 2020, Porotech claims to have been generating revenue for 10 months and be “working with some of the biggest global names in ...

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UK O-RAN lab opens today

A new lab to speed up the development of 5G communication kit and help Britain diversify its supply chains will be launched today. The government-backed £1 million SONIC Labs will help accelerate the adoption of ‘Open RAN’ technology which is a major pillar of the government’s 5G Diversification Strategy.  The strategy aims to build a ...

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UK satellites get a lift on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Monitoring and tackling climate change and tracking endangered wildlife are among the features of three UK-built satellites set to launch on a SpaceX rocket tomorrow. UK companies have received nearly £15 million from the UK Space Agency, through the European Space Agency’s Pioneer Partnership Programme, to develop the trio of satellites due to lift off ...

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Fujitsu offers commercial simulations on Fugaku

Fujitsu says it has used the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, to demonstrate the feasibility of high performance, large-scale, very high-definition analyses with commercial applications widely used in the industrial field for simulations including fluid dynamics. The trials were conducted in collaboration with a number of application vendors between November 2020 and May 2021. Fujitsu and ...

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Filtronic re-shores China manufacturing operation

Filtronic, the RF, microwave, and mmWave specialist, says it has re-shored from China to the USA the manufacturing of a critical communications product for the US public safety market. Working with its leading OEM client, Filtronic was able to re-shore product assembly and supply chain from China to Salisbury, Maryland, USA to improve equipment lead-times. “Reshoring ...

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ESA invites mobile app developers to Space App Camp 2021

An invitation from the European Space Agency (ESA) – it is looking for applications to join its Space App Camp 2021. It is inviting up to 25 mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to observing Earth from space to sign up for its annual Space App Camp programme. It will ...

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