Worldwide VCs raised $16.3 billion in new funds in Q1 and $16.9 billion in Q2, reports Pitchbook. VCs invested $40 billion in Q2 which was up 20% on Q2 2015 although the number of companies receiving investment went down 47% as investors went for big deals with established companies. In Europe, Q2 VC funding for …

UK Takes Lion’s Share Of European VC Funding

Mouser has signed up Particle, a prototype-to-production platform for IoT products. With Particle’s hardware development kits and connectivity modules, people from all skill levels — from new makers to engineering experts — can build IoT products and connect them to the web via Particle Cloud, says Mouser. After connecting a device, users can write firmware …

Mouser signs Particle

The Centre for Microsystems Technologies (CMST), an Imec-associated lab at Ghent University, has developed smart plastics and smart textiles from which designers created clothing and masks that light up with colour and animation depending on the wearer’s brain activity. The CMST technology can realise randomly shaped electronic circuits with integrated lighting. The technology is based on …

Fashion on Brainwaves

Thanks to Semicast Research for this one – the top five vendors of industrial semiconductors: % share TI 8.1 Infineon 6.8 Intel 4.9 ST 4.4 Renesas 3.8

Top Ten (less 5) Industrial Semi Vendors

The race to win the England and Wales National Final of the BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition has taken place. Who won?

Slim Jim races away with BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car

A transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for July 4, 2016.

 

The University of South Wales (USW) and the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) have announced a formal partnership, which will see the development of a range of specialist lighting courses.

Lighting Industry Association partners with University of South Wales

UK ultracapacitor manufacturer Skeleton Technologies will join French firm Flying Whales’ programme to build an airship for the global transport market. The main advantage of the LCA60T will be its ability to transport heavy and oversized cargo of up to 60 tons either in its 75m-long hold or underslung, at speeds of 100 km/h, with …

Skeleton helps to build airship

Connector maker Harwin has opened its new £3m manufacturing centre in Portsmouth, increase floor space on the site by 33%. The 3,000m² building was opened by HRH Prince Michael of Kent. “We are committed to high quality manufacturing in the UK  and we had outgrown our existing facilities, so to meet our growth plans, we had …

Harwin opens £3m factory extension in Portsmouth

China’s IC production value is forecast to rise 15% to $66.64 billion in 2016, according to Digitimes Research. The value of China’s IC output grew to $57.97 billion in 2015 from $21.03 billion in 2010 representing a CAGR of 19.1% during the five-year period. The production value of China’s IC design sector was $21.28 billion …

China’s IC Output To Grow 15% This Year