Japanese industrial automation, test and measurement and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation is investing in a Californian startup called FogHorn Systems, a developer of fog computing technology. But what exactly is fog computing and why is it neede...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

Japanese industrial automation, test and measurement and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation is investing in a Californian startup called FogHorn Systems, a developer of fog computing technology. But what exactly is fog computing and why is it neede...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

The latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory has been launched by Toshiba and the company says it is the first 64-layer device in the world to start sample shipments. The device has a stacked cell structure which is said to create significant densit...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2016

The latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory has been launched by Toshiba and the company says it is the first 64-layer device in the world to start sample shipments. The device has a stacked cell structure which is said to create significant densit...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2016

The answer of course is they will not. The plan is to just drop the package at your doorstep. Tricky if you live in a multi-story block of apartments. Amazon may be testing the idea of delivering packages by drone but don’t expect the service to start anytime...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 27-07-2016

The answer of course is they will not. The plan is to just drop the package at your doorstep. Tricky if you live in a multi-story block of apartments. Amazon may be testing the idea of delivering packages by drone but don’t expect the service to start anytime...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 27-07-2016

History repeats itself as we witness the sale of yet another one of our cutting edge British electronics companies following the £24billion purchase of ARM by Japanese company SoftBank. OK, so that acquisition is yesterday’s news but for those of us who were i...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

History repeats itself as we witness the sale of yet another one of our cutting edge British electronics companies following the £24billion purchase of ARM by Japanese company SoftBank. OK, so that acquisition is yesterday’s news but for those of us who were i...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

If you are looking to a performance boost for embedded applications, the Genuino 101 is a great place to start. It has all the support and infrastructure of the original Arduino Uno but thanks to a change in processor the 101 represents a big improvement in co...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

Hardware and software development tools specialist SEGGER Microcontroller and Renesas Electronics Europe have agreed a collaboration deal aimed at expanding the capabilities of Renesas’ RX Family of 32bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This will happen by adopting S...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Hardware and software development tools specialist SEGGER Microcontroller and Renesas Electronics Europe have agreed a collaboration deal aimed at expanding the capabilities of Renesas’ RX Family of 32bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This will happen by adopting S...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Infineon Technologies is buying the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (Wolfspeed) of Cree for approx €740 million in cash. The deal includes the SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. Wolfspeed has been a part of Cree for three decades and is a pro...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016