Imagination Technologies is back on track, and focusing on intellectual property licencing, according to CEO Andrew Heath.

Read full article: Profile: Restructured Imagination focuses on PowerVR, MIPS and wireless IP

Coventor, the supplier of virtual fabrication technology for ICs and MEMS, works with a team from Imec to compare the effects of variability on different semiconductor fab processes.

Read full article: Coventor and Imec link on virtual fabrication

Gaggione has created a range of colour-mixing 45mm collimators. Using a patented technology, according to the firm, it is achieves the narrowest available beams combined with state of the art colour mixing capabilities. “Designed to match most demanding RGBW or human-centric light applications, it also provides a significant breakthrough with single or multi-chip white LEDS,” …

Read full article: Colour-mixing collimators with narrow beams

Check out a couple of new whitepapers on the site relating to IoT and networking. They’re from Intel and cover fog computing and the Intel IoT Kit.

Read full article: IoT: Case studies on fog computing and the Intel IoT Kit

This week marks the 170th birthday of Thomas Edison inventor and all-round scientific superstar. But where would we be without the humble electrical wire?

Read full article: Only Connect: On the history of electrical wire

Scottish restaurant has electronic order system Edinburgh is first in Britain This was the headline, 56 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1960. The story continues: An electronic ordering and control system for restaurant use, believed to be the first in Britain has been put into use in Edinburgh …

Read full article: First UK Restaurant To Have Electronic Ordering

Lens maker Fraen has again applied its nested collimator intellectual property, this time to a 50mm diameter optics that will fit in MR16 applications – the earlier 75mm types are aimed at PAR20s. +/-6° beams, or narrower, can be expected from CoBs with a light emitting surface unser 6.5mm across. Applications are expected in architecture, …

Read full article: Nested colimators make narrow beams from CoBs

As part of its research into GaN transistor power supplies, the University of Bristol has created the fastest active gate driver reported so far

Read full article: Bristol GaN gate driver is the fastest by 10x

Yesterday, Dedrone, a security company which develops software to detect drones and protect airspace from drone threats, announced a $15 million Series B funding round, led both by Felicis Ventures and through a personal investment from John Chambers, Exec. Chairman of Cisco. Dedrone is a San Francisco-based software security company specialising in protecting airspace from …

Read full article: Here comes Dedrone killer

Light Projects LED fixtures using Soraa lamps, coupled with optical accessories, bring life to a leaf sculpture designed for the Aqua Shard restaurant.