Today AWS launches the 2022 season of the award-winning AWS DeepRacer League Virtual Circuit. Developers of all-skill levels advance their machine learning (ML) skills and compete in the world’s first global autonomous racing league.

The BBC, whose plans for  an experimental colour television service were turned down by the Postmaster-General last January,are reopening the matter with him. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 26th 1961. The story continues: ”I will consider what they say,” the PMG, Mr.Reginald Bevins, told the Commons last …

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Nasa has opened the Second Phase of its $5 million Lunar Power Prize Competition, which is dubbed Watts On The Moon. Basically, it is seeking innovative technologies for energy distribution, management, and/or storage that can be developed for space flight and future operations on the Moon’s surface. Under its Artemis programme, NASA is committed to …

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‘Zeptogram’ caught the eye at ISSCC 2022 conference last week, as researchers from French lab CEA-Leti produced a mass sensor with 170zg resolution for weighing molecules. Not only did they make one such sensitive weighing scale, but 1,024 of them in an array which can be scanned at high speed. The weighing part had been …

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  Toshiba has started shipping  a low capacitance TVS diode. The product will be useful  in protecting electronic components such as semiconductors from static electricity and noise while suppressing signal quality deterioration within high-frequency antennas used for electronic equipment. The DF2B6M4BSL TVS diode features a total capacitance of just 0.12pF (0.15pF max.), which is the lowest …

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Leonardo Electronics Engineer Anna Hart has won the WorldSkills UK’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion ‘Rising Star’ award. The awards took place last week, virtually, in a celebration that recognised the achievements of individuals and organisations championing diversity and inclusion right across industry. Enter for EW BrightSparks 2022 at www.electronicsweekly.com/brightsparks Anna (Pictured left) – who was …

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The industry is on pace to have more than 200 300mm fab lines in operation by 2026, forecasts Knometa’s Global Wafer Capacity 2022 At end of 2021, there were 153 semiconductor fabs processing 300mm wafers for the fabrication of ICs, including CMOS image sensors, and non-IC products such as power discretes. The 300mm wafer fab …

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ADI and Systems integrator   STL are  joining up to co-develop 5G ORAN radio units (O-RU). Together, the two companies will build 5G-ready systems to expand the diversity of commercially available O-RUs and facilitate the growth of  O-RAN networks. As a part of this collaboration, STL and ADI will work closely with other ecosystem providers, …

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Cabling by Digitus  which meets Category 8.2 for IT centres are now available from Transfer Multisort Elektronik (TME) The Digitus DK-1843 cabling (pictured) is constructed with a tin copper wire braid and twisted pairs of conductors, each covered with an aluminium-covered polyester film (AL-PET) shielding, all encased in a polyethylene sheath. They exhibit mechanical durability …

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Toshiba’s CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa (pictured) and his deputy Mamieu Hatazawa resigned earlier today amid the furore over plans to re-structure the company.  Corporate svp Taro Shimada is the new CEO. Tsunakawa was a Toshiba lifer. Last November he came up with a plan to split Toshiba into three parts. Shareholder disapproval led him to abandon …

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