Set against Tesla’s trillion dollar market cap, Europe’s car makers look like paupers with Germany’s top four companies mustering a collective third of the Tesla valuation. Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler make up the top 3 of highest valued car manufacturers in Europe, and rank third, tenth and fifth worldwide, respectively. According to the International Organization of …

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I was pondering with a friend last night, do we need new nuclear. And the answer seems to be yes, unless folk can adapt their consumption around the wind, sun and tides – which is possible, but the fact many people can’t be bothered to even spend five minutes sorting their recycling suggests that some …

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By a wave of my hand I control this music device… Well, a twirl of my fingers, to be precise, using the Arduino Uno-based Gesture Control MP3 Player. Setting the volume higher or lower, stepping to the next or previous track, and pausing the device altogether are among the gesture controls supported. The Arduino team …

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CONTRACTS worth £100,000 for telecommunications test gear from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe to be used on the ‘Ace High’ project have been awarded to Marconi Instruments Ltd. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1961. The story continues: They include quantities of  “white noise” test sets, signal …

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A drop of metal that is liquid at just above room temperature can be used as a pump in microfluidics, according to researchers at the University of New South Wales Sydney. Gallium and gallium alloys are suitable. These “are attractive materials due to their unique electrical, thermal and fluidic properties,” according to the university. They …

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Nicab of Northamptonshire can now UL-certify the cable and wire harness assemblies that it makes in-house. To do this it achieved UL ‘traceability accreditation’, joining other companies that are audited four times a year to maintain authorisation to put UL Certification labels on product packaging. “We are incredibly proud of this achievement, which is a continued …

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Infineon is aiming at high switching frequency applications dc-dc converter applications such as telecom and solar with its OptiMOS 6 family of 100V mosfets. Compared with OptiMOS 5, the company is claiming: Rds(on) better by 18% Qg x Rds(on) better by 29% Qgd x Rds(on) better by 42% “In a 600W, 36-60V to 12V zero-voltage switched buck-boost converter, OptiMOS 6 in SuperSO8 …

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Electro-spun fibres are a promising candidate for cloth-based tribo-electric nanogenerators (TENGs) according to the University of Fukui. Electro-spinning involves drawing solutions of polymers into fibres using electrical charge. The researchers have developed an all-fibre composite layer TENG that can be integrated with normal cloth. “With our work, we are aiming to provide a new point of …

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Xilinx has introduced the Alveo U55C data centre accelerator card and an API-driven clustering solution for deploying FPGAs at scale. Purpose-built for HPC and big data workloads, the card offers the highest compute density and HBM capacity in the Alveo accelerator portfolio. Together with the Xilinx RoCE v2-based clustering solution, a broad spectrum of customers …

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The UK’s Space Agency (UKSA) is beginning to collect data for its annual report on the size and health of the UK space industry. The 2021 the survey – which is now open for entries – will be carried out by BryceTech and it is is open to responses from space sector organisations across the …

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