Consent decree under the Clean Water Act to address discharges of untreated sewage into the Great Miami River and Hydraulic Canal.

KPMG finds ‘tempered optimism’ for industry prospects in 2018 among semiconductor executives. 57% of semiconductor execs expect increased profitability this year – up from 51% in last year’s survey, says KPMG in the report on its annual survey of  execs. Smaller (under $5 billion revenue) companies are more confident than large companies. 37% expect 1-5% …

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ARM has responded to the proliferation of AI-based processor designs with two IPs – one for machine learning and the other for object detection in mobile devices. The ML (machine learning) processor is described by ARM as ‘specifically designed for inference at the edge’. It is said to deliver 4.6 TOPs, with an efficiency of …

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It looks as if Toshiba will not get regulatory approval for the sale of its memory business to a Bain-Hynix led consortium by the March 31st deadline. Failure to get approval would be vastly beneficial to Toshiba because it could then keep or IPO the unit, or IPO a part of the unit and still …

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How do you navigate without GPS? Using very expensive accelerometers and gyros and integration, if you are a nuclear submarine. But what if you are a pedestrian? Revealed at the IEEE’s annual International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week was a dead-reckoner for walkers that fits in the heel of a shoe, and …

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Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Doulos to discuss the benefits of using C++ for your next Embedded Project.

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Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Doulos to discuss the benefits of using C++ for your next Embedded Project. It will consider how to produce code with comparable size and performance to traditional C approaches.

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Check out the ‘Single Atom in an Ion Trap’, a photograph taken by Oxford University’s David Nadlinger, which has won the top prize in an EPSRC photography competition.

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Linear Integrated Systems has general-purpose version of its low-noise LSJ74 p-channel JFET, called LS94. “The LSJ74 is a world-class option for designers seeking to build ultra-low-noise circuits, but the part currently has limited availability,” said the firm. “Because the LS94 has slightly higher noise, and is offered in a single IDSS range versus the multiple …

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With the addition of technologist Jude Pullen, the EW BrightSparks 2018 selection panel is now complete.

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