Can Apple justify dropping the headphone jack from its latest, iPhone 7, smartphones? Let us know what you think.

Read full article: Poll: Apple drops the headphone jack

Microchip has announced Explorer 16/32, a development board for 16 and 32bit PIC microcontrollers that is backwards compatible with the Explorer 16 Board

Read full article: Microchip dev board covers 16 and 32bit PICs

The UK’s high tech manufacturing sector has an opportunity to get back on a very exciting growth curve. Step-changes in technology can create business opportunities for companies and the precision manufacturing sector, which is so important to the electronics supply chain in the UK, has been presented with just such an opportunity in 3D printing. …

Read full article: How 3D printing will save UK manufacturers

IQE, the Cardiff compound semiconductor wafer manufacturer, is extraordinarily well-positioned to take advantage of current trends in the electronics industry. As silicon’s cost-per-function starts to rise rather than fall, the only way to achieve improved performance and reduced cost is to use compound layers on silicon. “The silicon chip manufacturers are beginning to adopt compound …

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Just a quick post to flag an interesting article about Project Fi – Goggle’s experimental wireless service (in the US).

Read full article: Project Fi, data-only SIMs, and second phones…

Renesas Electronics has agreed a deal to acquire Intersil for around $3.2bn.

Read full article: Renesas agrees $3.2bn buyout of Intersil

Digital multimeters (DMM) are the most commonplace piece of test equipment on the workbench or in the maintenance bag. But for how much longer will it be the engineers go-to test tool?

Read full article: The changing world of multimeters

In the latest SSL business roundup, Seoul Semiconductor sues retailer Kmart while Eaton and Cimcon partner, Cree clarifies IP stance relative to Feit, and UL adds ZigBee testing.

We are excited to announce a new edge location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Atlanta and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 60. 

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports container logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and troubleshoot your applications that run in containers. You can send each container’s log output to CloudWatch Logs and monitor these logs in near real-time.