26/09/2018
As the maker-market thrives, a new breed of engineer has appeared, and one which needs some nurturing.
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10/09/2018
By 2020, for every human, there are expected to be 26 smart devices and if that forecast from Intel is accurate, that means around 200billion connected ‘things’.
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10/09/2018
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The Cockcroft Institute is unique among institutions, bringing together industrialists, scientists and engineers to advance the science and technology supporting particle accelerators.
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27/06/2018
While the dominance of 300mm continues, it has come under unexpected pressure from its immediate predecessor, the 200mm wafer.
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25/06/2018
Health, social care and medical research are all witnessing profound change at the hands of technology. Could digitalised healthcare help to transform the provision of services?
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12/06/2018
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The NESD programme is looking to develop technology that can interface with single neurons in the brain.
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25/04/2018
Demand is growing for faster processor architectures to support embedded vision and artificial intelligence.
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10/04/2018
When it comes to delivering wearable devices the balance between power and performance remains the key design challenge.
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13/03/2018
Augmented reality is an old technology with new hopes – and could change the face of electronic design.
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14/02/2018
UKRI is to map the UK’s research and innovation infrastructure, looking to identify what will be needed for the UK to stay competitive in the next 10 to 15 years.
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11/01/2018
Oxford University has a reputation not only as an internationally recognised seat of learning but increasingly as a hotbed of commercial innovation and small business creation.
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13/12/2017
Last month saw the publication of the Industrial Digitalisation Review which outlined a series of proposals to boost the UK’s economy through the deployment of advanced digital technologies including: robotics, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
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12/12/2017
At the turn of the 19th Century, Friedrich Heusler was surprised to find he could unlock the magnetism inside the distinctly non-magnetic metals copper, manganese and tin by combining them.
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28/11/2017
It is easy to see artificial intelligence (AI) as a naturally power-hungry technology; it demands racks of servers stuffed with a combination of multicore CPUs, GPUs and, increasingly, FPGAs that crunch through terabytes of data to form the connections between millions of virtual neurons.
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16/11/2017
Of all the new semiconductor device technologies that have been introduced over the past few years, gallium nitride (GaN) is arguably generating the most far-reaching effect across a number of different applications areas.
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14/11/2017
Set up in 1956 Roke Manor Research has over the past 60 years established itself as a world-class electronics engineering consultancy.
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25/10/2017
It’s not that many years ago that MEMS devices were regarded as something of a novelty, with early applications focused mainly in the automotive industry – airbag deployment, for example.
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24/10/2017
Many exciting and novel applications of MEMS technology lie in the medical industry, from improving macro-sized hospital equipment and portable medical instrumentation to enabling medical wearables and point of care devices.
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27/09/2017
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning is the future of computing. Intelligent machines that understand the world as humans do, interpret our languages and learn from data will habitually be used to resolve problems too complex for the human brain.
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27/09/2017
Chipmakers are set to break the 10nm barrier as they move from the test-chip stage to full production on 7nm processes. The move marks another extension of a lithography technology that was meant to be phased out 15 years in favour of so-called next-generation lithography.
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07/08/2017
The defence industry is facing stagnating or tightening budgets in many of its traditional key markets while, at the same time, having to adapt to changing security threats and embracing new technologies.
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26/07/2017
Applications using ultraviolet (UV) light were first used back in the 1900s, but it was not until the 1940s that it was used on an industrial scale curing resins and inks and being deployed to sterilise and then disinfect medical equipment.
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27/06/2017
Since the announcement in the Queen’s Speech to Parliament in May 2015 that a referendum would be held on the UK’s continuing membership of the European Union (EU), there have been considerable expressions of concern about the potential effect of a withdrawal on the country’s research and development efforts.
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27/06/2017
Generally large and imposing, it can safely be assumed that satellites – such as Gaia, the Rosetta probe and the Hubble Telescope – required many thousands of hours of designing and testing; not least because of the harsh radiation and thermal conditions in space.
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23/05/2017
The pressure on those developing new battery chemistries is increasing as consumers demand the ability to use their electronic devices for longer between charges. And it seems that researchers are responding with a range of potential solutions, not only based on lithium, but also exploring other elements. Beyond that, solid state electrolytes are beginning to show promise.
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