We had a fantastic time last night at the 2023 Elektra Awards, hosted by the excellent comedian Paul Sinha, who was Highly Commended! Below you will find a gallery of all the winners receiving their awards. Simply click the images to enlarge them. See also: Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2023 Attendees The full list of winners by category can be ...

The prestigious Elektra Awards 2023 were presented at a Gala Dinner tonight, at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. And the winners can now be revealed below. The excellent host this year was Paul Sinha – the comedian, professional quizzer and broadcaster. And our thanks also go to the enthusiastic audience representing all sectors of the industry, who filled ...

At the prestigious Elektra Awards last night, the EW BrightSparks of 2023 were announced, highlighting some of the best young electronics engineers in the UK. Now in its sixth year, the EW BrightSparks programme has been looking for the engineers – aged 30 or under – who are already making a difference in the UK in the first years of ...

271 years ago in Philadelphia, an experiment may or may not have happened, which may or may not have demonstrated anything but which made the putative experimenter famous. Moral: Kite-flying  can have remarkable consequences

"I cannot imagine the aggravation that researchers from ETH Zurich must have had trying to create an algorithm that stacks random-shaped rocks to make a predetermined-shaped dry stone wall," writes our technology editor...

Rohm has developed a 120W 905nm infra-red laser diode for lidar. Called RLD90QZW8, “original technology allows Rohm to reduce the temperature dependence of the laser wavelength to just Δ11.6nm – 0.10nm/°C”, said the company. “This makes it possible to narrow the bandpass filter while extending the detection range.” 120W is at 38A where the diode drops 13V (50ns pulses, 0.05% ...

Foxconn is expected to increase its Indian production of iPhones from 12-14% in 2023 to 20-25% in 2024. Earlier this week the company said it would build a plant costing $1.54 billion at an unnamed location in India which, it was reported, would be used for iPhone production. It was also reported that the Indian plant would be used for ...

MediaTek, whose chairman was awarded the Robert N. Noyce Medal yesterday, is to invest $12.6 million in the UK over the next five years. The founder and chairman of MediaTek, Ming-Kai Tsai (pictured), will be presented with the Noyce Medal – the semiconductor industry’s highest honour – at the IEEE Honors Ceremony, which will be held May 3, 2024 in ...

AWS plans to launch the Project Ceiba supercomputer which uses 16,384 GH200 NVL32 Grace Hopper Superchips. The computer is expected to provide 65 exaflops of AI performance and have up to 9.5 petabytes of total memory. It will be, says AWS, the most powerful cloud computer in the world. “Generative AI is transforming cloud workloads and putting accelerated computing at ...

Foxconn is expected to increase its Indian production of iPhones from 12-14% in 2023 to 20-25% in 2024. Earlier this week the company filed a securities notice in Taiwan that it would build a plant costing $1.54 billion at an unnamed location in India, reported The Nikkei. According to reports in the Taiwan press,  the plant will  be used for ...