One of the post Brexit fears expressed predominately by those of a remain demeanour is that the UK’s highly active and successful technology start-ups will suffer the double blow of a lack of talent and funding when the UK leaves the EU. And much of the nervou...

By Paul Whytock | 22-09-2016

Ethernet semiconductor solutions specialists Innovasic has developed a TSN Evaluation Kit based on its fido5000 REM Switch technology. The kit can evaluate the features of the emerging IEEE 802.1 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) standards. TSN are standards tha...

By Paul Whytock | 20-09-2016

A dev board for designing with 16 and 32bit PIC MCUs has been launched by Microchip and kit that uses the STM32 microcontroller ecosystem for prototyping IoT devices with LoRa Wireless LPWAN connectivity has been announced by STMicrolelectronics. Microchip's E...

By Paul Whytock | 15-09-2016

The Rebellion R-One AER car secured fifth place overall and a win in the LMP1 Privateer Class in the first-ever Six Hours of Mexico Race, the fifth round of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship. The race was run at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez which i...

By Paul Whytock | 14-09-2016

Embedded design specialists Renesas Electronics is to buy power management and analog solutions company Intersil for US$22.50 per share in cash. This represents an aggregate equity value of approximately US$3.2 billion and the board of directors of both compan...

By Paul Whytock | 13-09-2016

The market for industrial semiconductors is predicted to boom and reach a value of €60billion by 2021 according to studies by analysts Semicast Research. The company says Texas Instruments was the leading vendor of semiconductors to the industrial sector in 20...

By Paul Whytock | 07-09-2016

Sexual relations with robots has been a sporadic cinematic theme ever since those perfectly behaved and submissive Stepford wives hit the silver screen. Now though it seems that robot relationships of a conjugal nature could become a reality with one expert on...

By Paul Whytock | 06-09-2016

A collaboration on a 28nm embedded flash (eFlash) process for making microcontrollers (MCUs) aimed at green and autonomous vehicles applications has been agreed between pure-play foundry TSMC and Renesas Electronics. These companies have worked together on MCU...

By Paul Whytock | 01-09-2016

Californian wearable technology specialists NFCRing says it has developed the world's first EMVCo compliant payment ring. The ring is based on a contactless security chip manufactured by German chipmaker Infineon Technologies. Unlike many smart rings this one...

By Paul Whytock | 23-08-2016

Semiconductor and intellectual property company EnSilica has agreed to provide configurable ASICs specialist BaySand’s ASIC UltraShuttle-65 multi-project wafer (MPW) customers with a range of configurable intellectual property (IP) solutions. BaySand recently...

By Paul Whytock | 18-08-2016

A fault-tolerant and fail-safe system for train control and rail signaling has been developed by Artesyn Embedded Technologies. Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL4) certification has been awarded to the ControlSafe Platform (CSP) with ControlSafe Computer (CSC) and...

By Paul Whytock | 16-08-2016

The industry’s first end-to-end security solution for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT has been developed following collaboration between Microchip and AWS. The security solution will help companies to implement th...

By Paul Whytock | 11-08-2016

There are many industry experts that believe Lidar sensing will help to improve the safe operation of autonomous cars but whether it will win over the vast majority of dubious drivers remains to be seen. Currently most drivers say they don’t want to be driven...

By Paul Whytock | 11-08-2016

A power management IC that can implement a buck or buck/boost regulator to convert automotive battery voltages into a tightly regulated voltage whilst providing changes between buck and boost modes has been developed by Allegro MicroSystems Europe. Designated...

By Paul Whytock | 09-08-2016