Looking back at 2015 you have to say that from an electronics perspective that was not as boring year. The semiconductor business went through some dramatic changes. Smaller process nodes are coming to the fore, next generation semiconductor materials such as...

By David Somo | 27-01-2016

Mass-production of the LQP02HQ series of film-type high frequency chip inductors in the ultra-compact 01005 size has started say manufacturers, Murata. Because of the trend toward increased multiband capability and increasingly sophisticated functions, the con...

By Paul Whytock | 26-01-2016

A versatile Intel development board that is easy to use as an educational tool but is also capable of prototyping sophisticated products with connect and compute functions is available from Mouser Electronics. Called the Genuino 101, there are a lot of specifi...

By Paul Whytock | 21-01-2016

A constant pressure for manufacturers of mobile communication technology is the relentless challenge to rapidly implement new mobile devices and infrastructure that is equipped with more features and technologies like MIMO, Carrier Aggregation and voice-over-L...

By Paul Whytock | 19-01-2016

The market for RF power transistors has been dominated by mobile communications infrastructure applications for many years but advancement in LDMOS-based transistors and packaging technologies are helping drive innovation in a number of markets. One of these m...

By Rob Hoeben | 13-01-2016

As we launch into a new year of technology the Internet is already getting its fair share of pundits proclaiming what will be the top electronic technologies of 2016. In an attempt to either educate us or, for those corporately attached experts, to wax lyrical...

By Paul Whytock | 08-01-2016

The Bluetooth communication protocol is gaining massive popularity because of the diverse variety of apps that it can support. But despite its prolific use concerns over a lack of personal data security still cause serious concern. Some of those risks range fr...

By Paul Whytock | 05-01-2016

Will market and political pressures spell New Year misery for the memory makers? The straight forward answer is yes and whereas extreme market fluctuations in the DRAM market are nothing new there is now the added dimension of political pressures in the form o...

By Paul Whytock | 22-12-2015

Three design imperatives when it comes to creating wearable devices for consumers are low power consumption, compact size and a list of functions that will unnerve competitors. In a new development American chip maker Lattice Semiconductor has created an FPGA-...

By Paul Whytock | 21-12-2015

The body is the enemy of wearable devices Wearable devices such as smart watches, smart glasses and fitness monitors present a specific set of challenges for antennas. Firstly, they are by definition held very close to the body at all times, which poses a prob...

By Marco Enge | 18-12-2015

A new SRAM that could provide the real-time image processing capabilities for future autonomous-driving technologies has been developed by Renesas Electronics. The company has revealed that when testing the new SRAM in a 16nm process, it managed 688 picosecond...

By Paul Whytock | 16-12-2015

Industry analysts reckon that by the end of this decade there will be around 50 billion connected devices operating worldwide. This Internet of Things, as this profusion of connectivity is often called, will mean that a monumental quantity of miniscule informa...

By Paul Whytock | 14-12-2015

The integration of high mobility InGaAs as a channel material for 3D vertical NAND memory devices formed in the holes with the diameter down to 45nm has been demonstrated for the first time by electronics research centre Imec. The development of this type of c...

By Paul Whytock | 08-12-2015

You've seen them a few days before Christmas wandering aimlessly around department stores with a panicked look in their eyes and expressions that alternate between grim determination and pathetic hopelessness. They are the men that have left buying their loved...

By Paul Whytock | 07-12-2015