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Here’s an electronics competition aimed at students that is well worth their entering. The prize up for grabs? Three paid-for scholarships, equal to £3,000 each, to help the winners pay their annual university fee. (Note: the compo actually kicks off in September)
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Uwatec has designed an ARM Cortex-M3 32bit microcontroller from Energy Micro into its Meridian diving computer. Energy Micro is known for designing extremely low power peripherals for its microcontrollers. This particular one…
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Mathematicians have long studied the packing problem, which involves finding the best way to cram a set of shapes inside a larger object. A related puzzle is the covering problem, in which the smaller shapes completely cover the larger.
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Densitron is developing a range of industrial grade TFT displays that it says can be used as drop-in replacements for a recently obsoleted range of TFTs from Seiko Instruments
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HiWave Technologies, the haptic touch specialists, have produced a Taptics demonstration platform.
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A team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology has demonstrated 3Gb/sec transmission at 542GHz.
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Applied Materials, the No.1 maker of chip-manufacturing equipment – says foundries are ordering 28nm manufacturing equipment in increasing quantities to add capacity to try to meet escalating demand.
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HP is braced for massive job losses next week. Reports say that 8-10% of the workforce, representing 25-30,000 people, could be laid off or offered early retirement.
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VC funding for high-tech is alive and well according to Pricewaterhousecoopers in a report.
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Warren East, CEO of Arm, told Dow Jones yesterday that he expects Intel chips to get into 5-10% of the smartphone market in a few years and that ARM chips will take a 10-20% share of the notebook market in three years time.
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