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A prolific inventor started work as a teacher then as a tool-maker before working as a machinist in rubber industry workshops including Goodyear’s. When he started his own company he invented and patented the centre drive lathe. Among 400 patents granted to him in 50 years of inventing were patents for the nickel-metal hydride battery, …

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For Steve Bush, it was a lovely idea for a human-machine interface component: a dumb mechanical rotary encoder knob that simply glues to the front glass of a touch display.

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Scandinavian women get the best deal, according to the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. Norway is the best place for women to live, followed by Finland, Iceland and Denmark, says the Indtitute. The UK takes 9th place out of the ranked 170 countries, with the USA 21st. The worst country for women is Afghanistan where womens’ …

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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Simon Betts, a MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering student at Cardiff University. Achievement …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to Airbus in the UK to build its Earth Explorer FORUM satellite, due to launch in 2027. The deal is worth €160 million. Airbus in Stevenage will lead the development of the satellite, with Airbus in Germany responsible for the Instrument signal detection chain, and Airbus …

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The US and its allies are squeezing the Russians by denying them technology, said the US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (pictured) earlier this week. “Since the controls were put in place, global exports of semiconductors to Russia from all sources have declined by almost 90 percent,” said Raimondo, “leaving Russian companies without the chips …

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May’s menory  inventory in Korea rose by its highest amount in four years, says Statistics Korea. Memory inventory rose 53.4% in May from a year earlier, the  statistics office said yesterday. A 54.1% gain in March 2018 coincided with a slowdown in revenue growth in the memory chip industry. Chip stockpiles have been rising on …

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The top five MPU  suppliers took their market share to 86% in 2021, says IC Insights, with Intel edging closer to half the total sales in microprocessors. Total microprocessor sales are expected to maintain double-digit percentage growth in 2022, rising nearly 12% to a record-high $114.8 billion, thanks to higher ASPs. Total MPU sales grew …

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Today, Samsung announced that it has started initial production of its 3nm process node applying Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor architecture. “Multi-Bridge-Channel FET (MBCFET), Samsung’s GAA technology defies the performance limitations of FinFET, improving power efficiency by reducing the supply voltage level, while also enhancing performance by increasing drive current capability,” says a statement from Samsung. Samsung …

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