Technology Startups

University of Sheffield spin-out Phlux has announced its first product, a family of 1,550nm avalanche photodiodes. Called Aura, the infra-red devices are built using antimony alloy modified InGaAs. “The resulting sensors can be operated with APD gains up to 120, enabling even the smallest signals above the noise floor of a connected trans-impedance amplifier to be amplified,” according to the ...

UPDATE: Unfortunately, due to circumstances in China, the roadshow described in the following article will not be proceeding as initially planned. Check the Crayfish.io website for more details as they are provided. Following its launch in Cambridge last July, Crayfish.io is rolling out its China-focused accelerator programme during a Cambridge-London roadshow next month. The roadshow, which is aimed specifically at ...

Epipix (stylised EpiPix) is a recently launched University of Sheffield spin-out company developing “the next generation” of micro-LED technology. The company is developing and commercialising micro-LED technology for photonics applications, such as micro-displays for portable smart devices, augmented reality, virtual reality, 3D sensing and visible light communications.  Underpinned by research from Professor Tao Wang and his team at the University ...

Shenzen-based DB investment management (DBI) has joined the Crayfish.io accelerator as the second anchor investor opening up further opportunities for UK and European semiconductor and IoT companies to join the programme and get ‘China-ready’. Two months since its launch, the ‘China-ready’ investment programme for UK and European companies has increased by £2.33m. DBI’s investment focus is on IoT and semiconductors, ...

The University of Bristol creates hand-manipulated robot arms with force feedback.

 Israeli startup, Kado and South Korea’s Dongyang have teamed up to develop the world’s thinnest laptop charger. Kado is contributing its thin charging technology and collaborating with Dongyang to complete the development of laptop chargers, which will also become the world’s first foldable charger for laptops, says Kado. The joint work will take place at Kado’s development centre in Israel ...

MIPS, provider of the eponymous processor architecture and IP cores, is once again in Silicon Valley, following the acquisition of MIPS from Imagination Technologies by Tallwood Venture Capital and Paxion Capital Partners. Tallwood’s managing director, Dado Banatao and Nicholas Brathwaite, founding partner of Riverwood Capital and WRV Capital, will represent Paxion on the board of directors. John Hennessy, former president ...

Quartz-like frequency stability from a simple, tiny, silicon chip oscillator? That is the claim of fabless start-up eoSemi of Congleton Cheshire: accuracy, small size, low power, low cost, and no micromachining, writes Steve Bush.

Cambridge-based power electronics start-up Amantys says the time is right to take its innovative power semiconductor technology to global markets.

Researchers from the University of Bristol are looking at the commercial opportunities for spinning off a new tilting display technology.