Sales of CMOS Image Sensors are expected to record record highs for another five years, says IC Insights. Driving demand are automotive, security, medical, and image-recognition systems which are replacing smartphones and digital cameras as growth drivers in CMOS image sensors. CMOS image sensors are in the middle of an unprecedented string of record-high annual …
Imec grows 14%
Imec’s revenue in 2015 rose to €415 million, an increase of 14% on 2014. With 230 extra employees the number of employees in 2015 grew to a total of 2,417. “2015 was a great year and we are determined to further drive the development of innovative solutions with cutting-edge research and development,” says Imec CEO …
Smart cities are a mystery to most of us
Only 18% of the UK public has heard of a ‘smart city’, according to research carried out by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The research also revealed low interest in the technologies typically associated with smart cities. For example, only 8% saw a value in being able to order driverless or electric transport …
Anglia offers manufacturers affordable buffer stocking
Anglia Components has introduced an inventory management service which allows UK-based manufacturers to receive an agreed level of inventory on their regularly used commodity components which are then held on their site. Called Anglia 80/20, the service is being presented as a cost-effective buffer stocking facility, which traditionally has only be available to large volume …
Only Connect: The simple yet ingenious D-Connectors
Back in 1952 when Cannon first introduced the D-Series connector they could not have imagined that they would still be used as the connector of choice for many interconnect applications.
RFEL channeliser IP inputs bandwidth stretches to GHz
RFEL has added wideband input capability to its ChannelCore Flex channeliser intellectual property for FPGAs. The core was limited to input bandwidths around 300MHz. “You can now monitor multi-GHz bandwidths,” said RFEL CEO Dr Alex Kuhrt. “This enables either hardware costs to be reduced or more bandwidth monitoring to be performed for a similar system cost.” …
Tsinghua buys 3% of Imagination
Tsinghua, the acquisitive Chinese investment fund, has bought 3% of Imagination the crisis-hit GPU specialist. Imagination’s shares have shot up 15% since the disclosure. Tsinghua has seen numerous bids for stakes in US and Taiwanese companies rejected. Recently Imagination announced 350 lay-offs representing 20% of its 1,700 workforce.
Roaming Robot
To dispel any suspicions that I may be a grumpy old Luddite I have invested in a robot to mow the lawn. I hate mowing the lawn – not that it takes me more than about 20 minutes – but it’s a boring, monotonous chore and I’ve been looking at robot mowers for a couple …
Survey: Electronics and the UK’s EU referendum
On 23 June the UK will vote either to remain in or leave the European Union. We want to find out your views on how this may affect the UK electronics industry.
Fred the Flymo
IMG_0249 At last I have managed to compress a smaller clip of Fred to the point where WordPress will accept it. Here it is.