Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling is to launch the National Skills Academy for Manufacturing, one of the first in a national network of academies that have been created to ‘put employers in the training driving seat’.
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Katy Deacon, an electrical engineer from West Yorkshire, has been named 2006 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year. Deacon works for Kirklees Council, where she helps drive the council’s focus on greater use of renewable energy.
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Bosch Sensortec has launched the SMB380 acceleration sensor, a three axis device aimed specifically at consumer electronics applications. The part, which measures 3 x 3 x 0.9mm, is suitable for use in human machine interfaces and free fall detection where ultra low power consumption is important.
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Polymer Vision is to work with University of Southampton spin off Innos to establish the world’s first production facility for organic semiconductor based rollable displays. Manufacturing will start this year.
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Intel has unveiled a networking device based on the draft 802.11n specification. The Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection is an upgrade to the wireless component found inside Centrino Duo and other Intel based laptops that helps consumers better connect to wireless networks.
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Toshiba has signed an agreement to use ARM PrimeCell products in its high performance SoCs, as well as the AMBA Designer tool. The company expects the move to simplify its SoC design process, as well as speeding time to market.
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Tom Lee is a man on a mission. That mission is to bust some of the myths surrounding the history of the semiconductor industry with the glee and enthusiasm that only a genuinely positive minded iconoclast could muster.
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Amir Ben-Artzi caught up with Cadence ceo Mike Fister at the recent CDNLive event in Tel Aviv.
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In a move which must be seen as a killer blow for the Crolles2 Alliance, Freescale has announced that it will join IBM’s technology alliance. The agreement between the two companies includes cmos and silicon on insulator technologies, and advanced semiconductor R&D.
Freescale's Sumit Sandana, pictured, sees the move as 'an exciting opportunity'.
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Design and manufacturing services provider Jaltek Group is to acquire Wavesight, which designs, manufactures and supplies ruggedised, wireless transmission solutions for transportation, surveillance and enterprise.
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SED – the ‘plasma killer’ approach of CES 2006 – was a notable absentee at CES 2007 and a sudden change in the technology’s ownership has now put its ability to challenge existing display technologies in serious doubt.
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Paul Dempsey reports on the continuing DVD format battle played out at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
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The Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Working Group, an organisation which is aiming to simplify the integration of NAND flash memory into consumer electronics devices, computing platforms and industrial systems, has unveiled the ONFI 1.0 specification. The chip level standard interface simplifies flash controller design, easing the integration of ...
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Omron Electronic Components and RS Components have inked a pan European distribution agreement that extends the relationship between the two companies significantly in terms of geographical coverage and product depth.
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Said to be the consumer electronics industry’s first mobile content server (MCS), the BluOnyx MCS from Agere Systems can transfer or stream music, video, pictures, business files to or from mobile phones, digital cameras, digital camcorders, pcs or to and from any site on the internet. The device can also access the internet via WiFi or over ...
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Silicon Laboratories has launched what it claims to be the first integrated am/fm receiver. Requiring just two external components, the Si473x can be added with relative ease to a range of consumer focused products.
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University of Kent spin out UltraSoC Technologies has won second place in the 2006 Research Councils’ Business Plan Competition. Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State for Energy, Department of Trade and Industry, commended UltraSoC for its excellent business propositions, adding that ‘science and entrepreneurship are crucial to the health of the UK ...
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The first public demonstration of an embedded system based on the VPX, or VITA 46, open architecture bus standard has been made by Curtiss Wright at the Bus and Board Conference.
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Spansion has announced that samples of its 65nm MirrorBit ORNAND memories are now being produced from Fab 25 in Austin, Texas.
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Researchers from the University of Essex are to carry out a two year study to establish if there are any short term health effects from exposure to TETRA mobile radio masts.
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HP has developed a technology that could lead to the creation of fpgas which are up to eight times denser than today’s devices but which use less energy for a given computation. It adds these devices could be built using the same sized transistors as those used in today’s designs.
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Nortel will be one of two suppliers of a carrier scale Ethernet solution for BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN). According to the company, BT aims to use its Ethernet technology to transport high bandwidth services – from mission critical business applications to full streaming video.
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NXP Semiconductors has confirmed what many industry observers had been predicting; it will not extend its current cooperation in the Crolles2 Alliance beyond the initial term expiring at the end of 2007.
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Bluetooth pioneer CSR has acquired NordNav Technologies and Cambridge Positioning Systems. The two acquisitions, says the company, will enable it to offer a GPS solution to handset, PND and other portable device manufacturers, with an incremental price of less than $1 when used with CSR’s Bluetooth technology.
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Frontier Silicon has secured a £16million financing round led by new investor Mitsui Private Equity. The new investment will boost Frontier Silicon’s roadmap of semiconductor solutions for mobile TV and digital audio products.
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