Graphics processor firm Nvidia sees a big opportunity for its GPUs in high performance computing (HPC), sometimes referred to as supercomputing. GPUs differ from the CPUs of Intel, IBM and AMD used in PCs and servers because they at every good at number-crunching. That is GPUs are designed to process data very quickly, but do not have the programmable flexibility ...

Movers and shakers from across the electronics industry strutted their stuff at the Elektra Awards 2014, held at the Lancaster London on 26 November. Check out our gallery of guests – can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people?

Photographer: fergusburnett.com Movers and shakers from across the electronics industry strutted their stuff at the Elektra Awards 2014, held at the Lancaster London on 26 November. Check out our gallery of guests above – can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people?

Tony Blair was wrong about almost everything – wars, the Euro, super-casinos, 24 hour opening etc etc but one thing he got right.

TechUK is inviting the electronics industry to get its voice heard on the digital skills shortage problem by contributing to a survey to support evidence to the Government’s Migration Advisory Committee. The Government’s Migration Advisory Committee is currently inviting evidence specifically relating to ‘Digital Technology’ roles. TechUK is asking companies to help it to demonstrate a shortage of labour in ...

Intel’s Edison embedded computing development platform which includes a board for Arduino is now being sold by RS Components. The Intel Edison module is built around a dual-core, dual-threaded 500MHz Intel Atom CPU and a 100MHz 32-bit Intel Quark microcontroller. “The Intel Edison platform represents an important advance among ready-to-use compute platforms available today,” said Simon Duggleby, semiconductor category marketing manager ...

Raytheon UK’s Scottish semiconductor business is to develop a silicon carbide (SiC) based mosfets for use in electric, hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The Glenrothes-based facility has a development contract with an unnamed car manufacturer. Raytheon will develop a SiC mosfet rated at 650V/60A, which can be mass-produced cost-effectively and be fully compliant with the stringent ISO/TS 16949 automotive ...

Black Friday seems like a con to me. Or maybe it’s the British way of doing it.

LED street lights shine brightly on the industry right now. In the past the UK electronics sector was heavily dependent on defence and telecommunications for its large infrastructure business. These sectors, while still important to suppliers, are no longer the cash-cows they were in the 1980s and 1990s. In desperation companies have been looking around for a sector which will ...

The closing presentation of the European Nanoelectronics Forum 2014 was given, appropriately, by the man leading the charge to restore Europe’s technology manufacturing competitiveness.