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

Forums, blogs, links, direct mail, downloads. There now exists a true plethora of routes to find the information you need online. How the world has changed since the days when sales execs would arrive on a company’s doorstep armed with data books, product sele...

By Nigel Watts | 04-08-2016

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016