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

The whys and wherefores of AC-direct driving of LED lighting systems explained by Francois Mirand True to the history of other types of semiconductor products, LEDs offer better performance at a lower cost with every passing year. So much so, in fact, that the other elements of a conventional LED lighting fixture – the housing, …

Why not direct AC drive your LED string?

Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have succeeded in growing ultra-thin (2.5-nanometre) ferroelectric films based on hafnium oxide that could potentially be used to develop non-volatile memory elements called ferroelectric tunnel junctions. As demand for data storage increases researchers are trying to develop faster and more compact storage devices. The ideal …

Russian scientists claim breakthrough in ferroelectric ‘universal’ memory

UK tech industry will highlight the importance of robotics this summer with a nationwide programme of events for the first ever UK Robotics Week (25 June – 1 July 2016). Events will include open labs, schools and academic competitions and hackathons, and the build-up to UK Robotics Week will begin at the Imperial Festival 2016 …

UK robotics to get summer showcase

PhotonStar LED system alters “melanopic” light levels by day and night, improving sleep, biorhythms, and health.

You can now choose AWS CodeCommit as a source provider in your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This lets you select CodeCommit repositories and branches in the source stage of your pipelines.

You can now provision Amazon API Gateway using AWS CloudFormation. API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Learn more here . 

Aquisition expands Forterra’s portfolio of site infrastructure and water management products and solutions.