The company behind the thermal simulation tool 6SigmaET has published a report,Heat is On, looking at some of the priorities of current electronics design.

Read full article: Survey: Electronics design engineers not feeling the heat

With a software programming industry saturated with men it is believed that software companies could be losing out on gifted women coders. Inspiring women from a young age to enter the technology industry could see software development companies receiving a greater number of female applicants. However, according to data released by Coupfy, more than half (56%) of women in …

Read full article: Software firm aims to empower women in technology

Is Intel getting out of wearables? Well that is the conclusion being drawn as reports come in of lay-offs in the company’s New Devices Group (NDG) Two years Intel bought a company called Basis Science which made fitness bands called Basis Peak but these turned out to burn people and, earlier this year, Intel shut …

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LED streetlight firm Schréder has signed an agreement with Panasonic, to co-develop products and infrastructure for smart cities. Schréder is a multi-national, with a Brussels HQ and a design centre in the UK. According to a company spokesman, the UK design centre was responsible for Shuffle (pictured), an interactive street column, launched in 2015, that …

Read full article: Panasonic ties with UK streetlamp designers for smart cities

Leti launches an Horizon 2020 project to enable mass commercialisation of Si photonics-based transceivers, for data centres and supercomputers.

Read full article: Southampton and St Andrews universities join Leti Si photonics project

Quite unlike the position in the United States, the European scene in transistors and diodes is at present dominated by the demand of the domestic side of the industry, notably for transistorised portable radio receivers. So, 55 years ago, started an article in Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1st 1961 written by Dennis P Riley, …

Read full article: US Semiconductor Manufacturers Denied 60% Of The Market

MACOM has bought AppliedMicro for $770 million – representing a 15% premium to its prior-acquisition market cap – but says it will dispose of AppliedMicro’s computer business within 100 days of the deal closing. MACOM thinks that Applied Micro’s connectivity business comprising OTN framers, MACsec Ethernet networking components and PAM4 platform is complementary. MACOM thinks …

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The open-source community behind the MIPS processor is working with the US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the area of software controlled radio technology for IoT. Eric Schultz, community manager with the prpl Foundation will advise on how proposed FCC regulations may affect the open source community and the growth of the internet of …

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UK scientists have grown high-quality mono-crystals of organic semiconductors, which are large enough to construct FETs on. Such FETs show good clean characteristic curves, although have comparatively low mobility. A common way to create organic semiconductor crystals is to dissolve the material in a solvent, then deposit the solution onto a surface. Subsequent evaporation of …

Read full article: Spray-on process yields quality organic semiconductors

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