Toshiba’s new boss Nobuaki Kurumatani sees his job as more than just managerial, for him it’s a calling. “I’m seeing this as a calling that I have been picked to be in charge of this crucial task of rebuilding Toshiba, which is considered as one of Japan’s precious assets,” says Kurumatani. “I’m going to dedicate …

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Graphene has found a new application – golf balls. Sports goods supplier Callaway starts selling graphene infused balls today. They cost £38 per dozen. A graphene infused outer skin of the ball can be made thinner than the skin of a conventional golf ball  which allows for a larger core which increases the speed at …

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Siemens is to buy Sarokal Test Systems which sells cellular testing products to chipset vendors, fronthaul equipment manufacturers, and network operators. “The planned acquisition of Sarokal reinforces our ongoing commitment to EDA and the IC industry,” says Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. “building on our acquisition of Mentor Graphics, we continue …

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We are very pleased to welcome on board the SamacSys component search engine. In the first of a series by SamsacSys, let’s drill down into some of its features.

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Red Pitaya has launched a vector network analyser (VNA) extension for its credit-card-sized plug-in STEMlab data acquisition hardware, which works with a host PC running Windows or Linux. It covers 500kHz to 62MHz, has a typical directivity of 42dB, a dynamic range of 74dB and a noise floor at 88dBm. Features of its companion software …

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Could a single multi-mode radar IC fulfil the needs of: vehicle corner radars, which have to be physically small vehicle urban front radars, which need a wide field of view vehicle narrow-beam highway radars? Texas Instruments said ‘yes’ in an ISSCC paper devoted to a single‑chip 76GHz-81GHz frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar transceiver in 45nm …

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Fred Hoar, who headed up the PR department at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 70s, divided execs and reporters into types. At press meetings he found execs conformed to three types: The Preacher The Explainer (goes on and on and on . . . .) The Patient Misunderstander (never gets the question but stays polite) The …

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There seems no end to the challenges the Raspberry Pi community has tackled with its credit-card-sized computer – there are at least two in space, plenty hidden away inside industrial equipment and loads around the globe educating children. Having spent a while recently trying to fix an ancient oscilloscope, it occurred to me that it …

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Working with Cisco, Philips Lighting heralds a new Copenhagen office building as a Nordic first.

You can now record configuration changes to AWS WAF RuleGroups with AWS Config. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits, and a RuleGroup is a collection of predefined rules that you can add to a web ACL. Using Config, you can track historical changes to the rules and metrics associated with your WAF RuleGroups.