John V. Ballun, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer will succeed Mr. Makowan as President and CEO.

Brian Quinlan has joined the corporation as Vice President and East Area Manager in its Construction business unit.

IntelliFlux™ Artificial Intelligence-Based Control System from Water Planet powers demonstrations to evaluate performance and cost of treating produced water for use in agricultural irrigation

Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. TE Connectivity have raised the bar with new contactless technology and the future takes one step closer. ARISO Contactless Connectivity reliably delivers power, data and signal over …

Only Connect: On contactless technology

The other speculation du jour is the succession at ST. Although ST has not officially confirmed that the ST board is looking for a replacement for Carl Bozotti, the speculation that it is looking is all over the web. The French, of course, will want a Frenchman, and the Italians, of course, will want an …

ST Speculation

Having been hunting around for a light-weight Windows machine, I have looked at all sorts of computers. One which didn’t meet my minimum spec (4G ram, 64G flash) was rather impressive just the same. The brilliant thing about the Asus EeeBook X205TA is that it weighs under 1kg (980g) despite having an 11.6″ screen. It …

Hats off to Asus for super light cheap laptop

Winners have been announced of PA Consulting Group’s fourth annual Raspberry Pi coding competition.

Picture Gallery: PA Consulting’s Raspberry Pi coding competition

Atmel’s China operation and Rockchip have joined ARM’s Global University Program Alliance. Chinese university students will gain access to a wider range of ARM-based hardware and software platforms, technologies and development tools. The first deliverables as part of this expansion will be an Atmel version of the ARM Education Kit for smart hardware design, and …

Atmel and Rockchip join ARM’s China university programme

The Lebanon it holding its first Raspberry Pi schools competition, with the aim of finding the next generation of tech entrepreneurs The competition will challenge school students from all backgrounds to invent something that utilises the Raspberry Pi to benefit Lebanon, according to the UK-Lebanon Tech Hub (see below). For example, an invention that might benefit education, …

Lebanon’s first Raspberry Pi schools competition

Fourteen out of 33 IC product types are expected to show growth of better than 2% this year, says IC Insights. Fourteen product categories—topped by Cellphone Application Processors and Signal Conversion (analog) devices—are expected to exceed the 2% growth rate forecast for the total IC market this year. Another five product categories are expected to grow …

Phone processors among ICs to exceed market growth in 2016