South Korea and China lead the West in patent filings where at least one female inventor was named. In Korea it’s over 50%; in China it’s 48%. In third place is the Western. country with the highest percentage – Belgium. Then came Spain (35%), the USA (33%) France (32%) Netherlands, India and Switzerland (28%) Finland (25%) Canada and Denmark (24%) ...

Andes has adopted UltraSoC’s embedded analytics technology for use in its AndesCore range of RISC-V processors. “We are collaborating with mutual customers on implementations which utilise the  V5 AndeStar architecture with the support of UltraSoC’s SoC analytics and debug IP, and processor trace, ” says UltraSoC CEO Rupert Baines (pictured). Andes will leverage UltraSoC IP to accelerate development and enhance ...

The UK has ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA). UK ratification brings the international court one step closer to reality. The Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is an international treaty. The international court will have jurisdiction over patent disputes across its contracting states. It will deliver a single judgment in cross-border disputes between private parties over patents ...

The turnaround at Sony seems to be set solid as the company reported a record profit for FY 2017 to the end of March 2018. Operating profit was $670 million which  was 2.5x the 2016 FY operating profit. 2017 FY net profit was $450 million. In its darkest days, Sony’s record loss – for FY 2011 – was $420 million. ...

Yesterday Sprint and T-Mobile, the third and fourth largest US mobile networks announced a $26 billion merger. Before the merger, Softbank owned 85% of Sprint and T-Mobile owned two thirds of T-Mobile. Under the merger deal,  Deutsche Telekom  gets a 42% share of the combined companies and the right to appoint nine out of a fourteen director board. Softbank will ...

It’s becoming ridiculous. If you want a ton of dough dumped on you by a VC, say you’ve got an AI start-up, Ed muses in his diary. The great thing about AI is that it’s like IoT – undefined, familiar to anyone who’s read a science fiction novel and open to anyone who can think of a wacky automaton. As ...

After the BrightSparks 2018 judging process at the RS Components HQ in London in March, Electronics Weekly and the other judges took the opportunity to  discuss the state of UK engineering today. The resulting debate generated much food for thought. We opened with a conversation about the shortfall in engineering skills and what the industry can do to recruit and ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Robin Lee, a Design and Development Engineer at Park Signalling. He purposely chose a 3-year BEng programme, with a first year in general engineering, instead of a 4-year MEng ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Iestyn Llyr, a Senior Engineer at Microsemi. Having graduated as an engineer from Cardiff University, Iestyn started at Microsemi initially working on a project called Montagu, a £485,000 ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to showcase the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Hamish Crackett, a Graduate Engineer at Roke where he has already demonstrated his knowledge of electronics, mechanics and software development. He was assigned to be part of a ...