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Has someone got a deal for you? 22/05/2012

The extent of counterfeit component usage in military applications is gradually coming to light as the various parts of the supply chain get to grips with the problem.

A recently published report by a US Senate committee found 1800 instances of where fake parts were used in US military aircraft. But it also found a culture which was 'woefully lacking' and which routinely failed to report instances. One ...
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Studying the road map 22/05/2012

The semiconductor industry has developed a well organised supply chain over the years. ...

UK electronics unites 21/05/2012

Electronics trade organisations, professional and skills bodies are coming together to ...

Pulling their weight 08/05/2012

We've always been led to believe that the result of any endeavour is the sum of the ...
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Bloodhound Project diary 30/04/2012

The thing about setting a land speed record is that speeding up is only half of the ...

Do we need a second switch? 27/04/2012

With the digital switchover largely complete after the London region turned off its ...

Upsetting apple carts 24/04/2012

Intel has been at the leading edge of semiconductor manufacturing for many years. Its ...

Rearranging deckchairs? 24/04/2012

Since its formation in 2009 as a joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, ...

Back to the future 23/04/2012

Readers of a certain age will be able to cast their minds back to the early 1980s and ...

Petabyte problems 10/04/2012

Since man's early days, we have looked at the stars and wondered what it's all about. ...

Qualcomm buys Ubicom 02/04/2012

Qualcomm has, apparently, acquired Ubicom with hardly a fanfare. It's the end of the road ...

After the watershed 27/03/2012

Slowly, the embedded systems market has been moving away from its reliance upon 8bit ...

Steerable antennas 26/03/2012

Supercomputers keep getting larger as more computational challenges are addressed. And ...

Altium helps students 26/03/2012

The UK educational landscape has changed massively over recent years, bringing a whole ...

ARM’s M0+ core 20/03/2012

There has been a lot of talk in recent months about the 'internet of things'; a handy ...

ARM changes 8bit mcu life span 19/03/2012

Despite all the hullaballoo surrounding 32bit mcus, 8bit parts remain firm favourites for ...

Memristor update at DATE 16/03/2012

Some 40 years ago, Prof Leon Chua predicted the existence of a fourth circuit element to ...

Free space comms 16/03/2012

Free space communication is a concept which has been around for many years; the ancient ...

450mm fab in Europe? 13/03/2012

The 450mm manufacturing era is approaching; five of the world's largest semiconductor ...

UK manufacturing 12/03/2012

The UK's manufacturing sector is anything but past it; it generates some £130billion a ...

Andy Green’s Bloodhound diary 07/03/2012

What's the fastest and scariest thing you've ever done? For me, they are two different ...

Embedded World breaks record 05/03/2012

Embedded World has underlined its position as the world's leading exhibition and ...

Too many mcus? 01/03/2012

A few years ago, Luminary Micro (now part of TI) started a trend by launching an ARM ...

Gigabits and mega deals 28/02/2012

The dram market is a volatile place where only the brave and the foolish venture. While ...

Meet Professor Alf Adams 21/02/2012

Professor Alf Adams should be an electronics billionaire. And if not 'famous' as such, at ...

DRAM leaders merging? 20/02/2012

The dram market is a place where only the brave venture.

Chipping away at TSMC 14/02/2012

The debate about yields from TSMC's 28nm process continues to rumble on. Depending on who ...

450mm fab in Europe? 30/01/2012

Leading semiconductor manufacturers will move to using 450mm wafers within the next five ...

Archive: New Electronics 1982 27/01/2012

The electronics news stories making the pages of New Electronics 30 years ago this week