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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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pushing the boundaries 24/01/2012

IBM has, for many years, been at the forefront of fundamental electronics research, with ...

If you snooze, you lose 23/01/2012

The pace of development in the mobile phone sector has speeded noticeably in the last ...

Tricorder prize launched 16/01/2012

An article written in 1900 has recently been discovered. In it, a number of predictions ...

Leaving the merry go round 10/01/2012

The world of semiconductors used to be one huge VC fuelled merry go round. VCs pumped in ...

Changing the rules 10/01/2012

Picochip's acquisition by Mindspeed crosses another company from the list of UK ...

Keeping ahead 10/01/2012

Depending upon whose view you subscribe to, the prospects for the UK's economy in 2012 ...

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