25/02/2021
Over the past six years Apple has acquired around 100 companies. At a time when the company is generating a mountain of cash – almost £80bn alone in its first-quarter of 2021 – the signs are that this rate of acquisition is likely to continue.
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23/02/2021
The pandemic has affected so many aspects of the global economy but none more so than the automotive sector, where the certainties of recent years have given way to intense competition from the consumer electronics space.
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19/02/2021
The UK government has announced that it plans to launch a "high-risk" science agency to look for ground-breaking discoveries.
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15/02/2021
A team of engineers have developed a hydropower system that uses gentle slopes rather than steep dams or mountains to store electricity.
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10/02/2021
The news that Renesas Electronics is to buy Dialog Semiconductor for $5.9 billion, follows a series of acquisitions by Renesas in recent years.
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09/02/2021
New research, conducted by Fountech Solutions, has shown that a growing number of UK businesses are turning to AI to build back from Covid-19.
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04/02/2021
The world has never experienced such a year. With the global pandemic have come new norms for how we live such as a proliferation of remote working and our changed interaction with technology.
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02/02/2021
With the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching into almost every aspect of our lives, it’s not surprising that recent figures show that investment in robotics has surged over the past twelve months.
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28/01/2021
Oliver Paterson, Product Expert VIPRE Security Awareness Training and SafeSend, explains where Artificial Intelligence can play an effective part in a cyber defence strategy and where it can present challenges to the user.
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26/01/2021
Last week saw Donald Trump quit the political stage, at least for now, after four tumultuous years and the inauguration of Joe Biden as President.
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25/01/2021
Global sales of electric vehicles rose by 43 per cent in 2020 and, as the price of batteries continue to fall, even faster growth is now being forecast.
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19/01/2021
According to reporting by Reuters, sources in the US have revealed that the Trump administration has notified Huawei suppliers, including Intel, that it’s revoking certain licenses to sell to the Chinese company.
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15/01/2021
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Hannes Niederhauser, CEO of S&T, has identified five defining trends in the industry for the coming year: Predictive Maintenance, High Performance Computing/AI, 5G and 10G-PON, Functional Safety and the SDC standard in the medical sector.
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13/01/2021
A new report from IC Insights shows that 2020 was a record year for M&A among chip companies, with total deals valued at $118bn breaking the previous record set back in 2015 when total deals were valued at $108bn.
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12/01/2021
The global automotive industry is facing massive disruption with leading brands cutting production due to reduced supplies of semiconductors.
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06/01/2021
Johanna Pingel and David Willingham, deep learning product managers, MathWorks take a look at some of the AI and electronic engineering trends for 2021, and beyond.
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05/01/2021
From the hype of a few years ago we are now seeing a growing realisation that when it comes to rolling out self-driving vehicles, it's going to be a lot more complex and challenging than previously thought.
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17/12/2020
Arm company experts offer their perspectives on the technologies and engineering concepts they believe will play an outsized role next year and into the coming decades.
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15/12/2020
In just a few years the UK’s gaming sector is forecast to become a global leader, worth in excess of £10bn.
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09/12/2020
After the turmoil of 2020 it’s certainly difficult to predict with any certainty how the UK economy is likely to perform as we enter 2021. After the record contraction of the spring months and the bounce back in the summer, most forecasters have had to re-write the forecasting book.
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07/12/2020
Who’d be Chancellor of the Exchequer, given the historically tight financial circumstances the UK economy finds itself in.
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02/12/2020
The UK government has announced that telecom providers will need to stop installing Huawei equipment in the UK’s 5G networks from next September.
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30/11/2020
Global technology giants should be made responsible for helping to collect, recycle and repair their products, according to a report from UK MPs.
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25/11/2020
Last week saw the Government announce the biggest programme of investment in British defence since the end of the Cold War with a £16.5 billion increase above existing commitments, spread over four years, and the promise of thousands of new jobs.
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23/11/2020
On the face of it the government’s green industrial revolution looks like a positive step in decarbonising the UK economy, but as always the devil is in the detail.
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