High-tech venture capital in the UK and Ireland ended the year on a high note with £209m invested in 60 companies compared to £129m in 48 deals in Q4 2011, says Ascendant, the tech-focussed investment company. Over 2012 as a ...
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Achronix, the high performance FPGA specialist, is sampling customers with products made on Intel’s 22nm finfet process. "We’re sampling several customers," Achronix CEO Robert Blake, told EW. That’s between 10 to 50 ...
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A new not-for-profit company called Digital Mobile Spectrum Ltd (DMSL) has been established to tackle the problem of 4G interfering with Freeview broadcasts. A former Nokia-Siemens Networks CEO has been tapped to handle the roll-out of 4G ...
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Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has written a book about the chip wars between Intel and AMD. 'Slingshot: AMD's Fight to Free An Industry From The Ruthless Grip of Intel' - is the title of a book written by former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz to be ...
Delphi Automotive is to use NXP tuner chips in car radios. In particular: the SAF775x family of single-chip RF CMOS tuners, NXP´s AM/FM background tuner, and its SAF36xx software defined radio for digital reception. ...
What will be the trend of the distribution market in 2013? The lines between engineering and purchasing will continue to blur, validating the importance of a next generation distribution model. This next generation approach is less ...
Hittite Microwave has introduced a two channel 8bit 450Msample/s ADC with interleaving for 900Msample/s conversion, from either input. Called HMCAD1512, it is aimed at point-to-point microwave links and digital oscilloscopes. At ...
Renesas Electronics continues to feel the pressure from the market and is predicting a larger than expected loss for the year ending March 31, in a revised financial forecast. The Japanese chip maker now forecasts a full year loss of Yen ...
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The UK's largest manufacturing exhibition opened its doors this week attracting a record number of visitors, demonstrating the continuing importance of the manufacturing sector to the UK's economy. "The last twelve months has been ...
Cambridge Consultants has developed a sticky radio tag that will detect bad handling of parcels by delivery firms. Called DropTag, the gadget combines a battery, a low-energy Bluetooth transmitter, an accelerometer and a memory chip. ...
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Agilent has announced real-time spectrum analysis which can detect intermittent signals of 3.57µs duration, claiming it to be the best probability of intercept (POI) available. The analyser runs on the firm's PXA X-Series signal ...
Business secretary Vince Cable acknowledges that engineering is central to building a strong economy. He was speaking following the publication of an influential new report by the Royal Academy of Engineering which estimates engineering ...
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The trade gateway and ‘barometer’ to the Chinese market opens again in April. The China Import and Export Fair, commonly known as the Canton Fair, will be held from April 15 to May 5 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex ...
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A unique event in the annual schedule is the get-together of journos and industry execs in Santa Cruz. The uniqueness of it is that the journos come from, literally, all over the world: China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, India, ...
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Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is a balanced high-speed communication standard that is widely used around the world. Until recently, the majority of its applications were in non-hostile environments. New applications in industrial control and smart ...
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