13/05/2014
Iain Duncan's career in innovation and product design has spanned continents and industries, and he worked on computers from the early IBM to the latest Raspberry PIs. That represents a lot of expertise that he is eager to share, as he explained to Tim Fryer
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22/04/2014
Ask Terence Watson about power electronics and you're left in no doubt of his opinion. "It's one of the most important technical components for the UK's future. It's a technology that covers all sectors."
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08/04/2014
ESCO's new chief executive tells Graham Pitcher that the electronic systems sector's 'time has come'.
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11/03/2014
As the 2014 British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) programme launches, Tim Fryer visits a previous winner, John Richards of Oxford Digital, who has recently reorganised the company.
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11/02/2014
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has hundreds of success stories of all shapes and sizes and, says Myrddin Jones, it is hungry for more. Tim Fryer reports.
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14/01/2014
Graham Pitcher hears from techUK's chief executive about how the organisation can help to grow the UK's tech sector.
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10/12/2013
Jeff Kodosky's legacy as the 'Father of LabVIEW' is assured, but his enthusiasm for developing the platform remains undiminshed, as he explained to Tim Fryer.
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12/11/2013
Research into graphene won Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov the Nobel prize in physics. But the story has not ended there, as Nathan Hill told Tim Fryer.
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08/10/2013
The acquisitions of Ember and Energy Micro have put Silicon Labs in a strong position in the Internet of Things market, as ceo Tyson Tuttle explained to Tim Fryer.
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10/09/2013
Maxim is responding to the changing needs of analogue electronics designers. Graham Pitcher finds out how from the company's ceo.
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13/08/2013
"The objective is to ensure that the semiconductor industry in Europe has the right framework to allow it to stay at or, in some cases, return to the forefront of technology."
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09/07/2013
Andy Pease tells Caroline Hayes his company's focus on programmable logic in the mobile market is the right path – whatever competitors do.
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11/06/2013
Dr Chris Rowen tells Caroline Hayes why he is excited about the Cadence acquisition and why he still believes the configurable model is the key to moving silicon design forward.
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14/05/2013
Graham Pitcher finds out from Roland Steffen how Rohde & Schwarz plans to build its oscilloscope business.
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09/04/2013
Plextek's group chairman Colin Smithers tells Graham Pitcher how it's time for the company to move forward.
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13/03/2013
Throw a figurative stone in any gathering of senior engineers and you are bound to hit someone with a strongly-held opinion on how best to increase the successful transfer of technological innovation from universities to industry.
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12/02/2013
Freescale's new ceo tells Graham Pitcher that, while he's not 'dancing' yet, progress is being made in turning its fortunes round.
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08/01/2013
After more than 30 years at the helm, Dr T tells Graham Pitcher he is still looking for new opportunities.
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11/12/2012
Graham Pitcher finds Digi-Key's president to be enthusiastic about the company's prospects
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13/11/2012
There are some industries in which change happens slowly; others exist in a more dynamic landscape. Despite the fact that it's maturing, the electronics industry belongs to the latter camp and technology change still comes quickly.
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07/11/2012
There are now 110 consumer electronics products that are authorised by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) to carry the Qi logo. One of the latest is Nokia's flagship Lumia 920, due to be released later this month.
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09/10/2012
Many UK based technology companies can trace their origins to the years immediately following World War II. Chelmsford based e2v is one, building its business on core technology developed for radar systems.
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11/09/2012
Some 15 years ago, Synopsys bet on the idea that third party intellectual property (IP) would an important element of the integrated circuit business. Interviewed towards the end of the 1990s, Synopsys' cofounder Aart de Geus – now its co ceo – talked about the problems that chip designers faced as the gap between what Moore's Law could deliver and the number of transistors in a circuit they could realistically deploy per day grew larger. In that interview, de Geus said: "I am totally convinced that reuse is necessary to the advancement of silicon."
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14/08/2012
The days of semiconductor companies manufacturing and selling discrete products are passing. Today, companies involved in the electronics supply chain have to offer more to the customer.
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10/07/2012
Three years ago, Wind River Systems – developer of the VxWorks real time operating system – was acquired by Intel. The news received a mixed reaction, but the general feeling was 'why?' and 'will it only serve one customer?'. But the company appears to have been unaffected by the move. So how is life under the new ownership? Andreas Pabinger, vp of operations for EMEA, said: "Wind River is still being run as a brand and we continue to work with different semiconductor partners and with clients in different industries."
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