New generation Bluetooth beacons with longer battery life and longer range will allow for easy deployment of smart logistics and location services. A recent report from Transparency Market Research (TMR) forecasts a whopping 16.05% CAGR in the global beacon ma...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 17-10-2018

Millions of us would have seen or heard about the latest IPCC report on global warming, the content of which was extremely scary to say the least. In simple terms if things don't change within the next 20 years this planet is in serious trouble. The signs a...

By Paul Whytock | 16-10-2018

Boron nitride is a semiconductor that could be used to make electrical equipment able to convert power more efficiently than silicon wafer technologies, up to three to 4% more efficiently than what is possible today. To achieve this higher energy efficiency, a...

Semiconductors | By Rob Coppinger | 15-10-2018

The use of simulation tools, ‘digital twins’, in production is fast growing and will soon become an integral part of the Smart Factory and the Internet of Things (IoT). Digital twins are digital copies of physical assets including all their modelled characteri...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 08-10-2018

Quantum computers could be mass produced at low cost with silicon microchips that have large-scale waveguides, optical tracks, for photons, instead of circuits for electrons controlled by transistor switches. These silicon photonic chips could solve two challe...

By Rob Coppinger | 05-10-2018

The desktop PC has supposedly been dying for years. But one look around the office shows that it is alive and well. But could the humble smartphone be the greatest weapon against desktops, and even laptops?   The Ultimate Bring Your Own Device Corpor...

By Christian Cawley | 04-10-2018

The market for collaborative robots, so-called ‘cobots’ that work alongside human operators, is expanding fast and looks set to render the future industrial workplace unrecognisable in the coming years. Universal Robots, the Danish producer of robotic arms and...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 02-10-2018

A heat sink more than three times better than copper could be commercially available in a couple of years after engineers found a way to make the semiconductor boron-arsenide virtually defect free. Researchers are speaking to potential commercial partners for...

Semiconductors | By Rob Coppinger | 28-09-2018

Over the years, old desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, printers, docking stations, PDAs, and long abandoned mobile devices have accumulated. Entire rooms (perhaps even buildings) are dedicated to the storage of old technology. This is happening despite the prolife...

By Christian Cawley | 27-09-2018

The global connector market is growing by leaps and bounds. One recent estimate puts the total size of the industry at $80.4 billion by 2023, having grown at a CAGR of 4.9% in the five year period from 2018. The key drivers are the growth in 3C applications, t...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 26-09-2018

The progress made in phone handsets and other forms of consumer electronics over the past two decades has led to impressive technological capabilities being realised. The processing speed available to users of iPhone X smartphones can rival that of a modern la...

By Mark Patrick | 24-09-2018

Quantum cascade lasers could allow the ever-smaller transistors to operate at low power and lower temperatures without the problems associated with conventional designs. Transistors produce the binary computer system’s ones and zeros by applying an electrical...

By Rob Coppinger | 20-09-2018