Paul Whytock

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Paul Whytock is Technology Correspondent for Electropages. He has reported extensively on the electronics industry in Europe, the United States and the Far East for over thirty years. Prior to entering journalism, he worked as a design engineer with Ford Motor Company at locations in England, Germany, Holland and Belgium.

Could these switcher ICs keep even the bean-counters happy?

Anyone involved in the power supply sector knows it is a ferociously cost conscious business. Keeping the bean-counters happy at both the manufacturing and the purchasing end invol

22-09-2017

Are electric cars environmentally deadlier than the diesel? Part I

A friend of mine recently bought himself a Tesla X and I have to say it’s a great looking vehicle and I had to agree with him that the performance figures are impressive and would

Environment | 12-09-2017

Car hacking epidemic. It’s a CAN do problem

There has been a spate of news recently about how today’s electronically sophisticated cars are vulnerable to hacking and a recent story that Chinese researchers posing as hackers

31-08-2017

Drone software update. License or be grounded

Irresponsible droners could be forced to license their machines or be grounded by software that makes their drone inoperable. Electroblog in the past has written about the real

23-08-2017

Banking with your 4g phone. Is it safe?

Some of you film buffs out there may remember Laurence Olivier asking Dustin Hoffman that same question in the film Marathon Man. Now whereas the wrong answer from Hoffman resulted

18-08-2017

Drive a car that grabs control because of your emotions? NO THANKS

Would you like to drive a car that controls itself relative to your emotions and moods? Well semiconductor solutions specialists Renesas says it has created a development kit whic

25-07-2017

Now you can maintain your data security from the grave

Cyber security and the stealing of personal data is big news these days and so its not surprising that I receive a regular stream of press releases from expert companies expounding

Security | 19-07-2017

Dev boards support IoT application design work

Two new SmartEverything solutions from Arrow, the LION IoT development system-on-module (SoM) board and the ARIS IoT board that support Internet of Things (IoT) application develop

13-07-2017

Could this 2D materials innovation push Moore’s law into sub-5nm gate lengths?

In a major technological development a material-device-circuit level co-optimisation of field-effect transistors (FETs) based on 2D materials for high-performance logic application

11-07-2017