Electro Ramblings

Interested in the IoT and extending battery life for devices? There’s a free e-book from Nordic Semiconductor, now available on the site, which addresses this topic in depth.

If you missed the time of the live webinar by Rochester Electronics - about avoiding re-designs caused by premature semiconductor obsolescence - you can still view the important conversation.

What caught David Manners' eye this week was Pragmatic, the Cambridge flexible chip manufacturer, raising $206 million.

"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...

Make a note in your diary so you don’t miss this one – Electronics Weekly will be hosting a webinar by Rochester Electronics about avoiding re-designs caused by premature semiconductor obsolescence.

There is a new resource available in the site: a whitepaper from NCAB. It considers how best to maximise the design of your PCB for both manufacture and best performance.

There's a viewpoint piece on the Amazon-Nokia patent dispute, the value of the semiconductor market, Ireland being set to launch its first satellite, the US allocating $3 billion of Chips Act money, and MicroLED commercialisation...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week were signs that the semiconductor recovery may be underway...

We are very proud to announce the first ever Electronics Weekly Women in Electronic Awards, celebrating the notable achievements of women within the electronics industry.

There's Lockheed Martin demonstrating its space-based 5G Satellite Base Station, Siemens buying Insight EDA, a mems-based loudspeaker that uses ultrasonics to reproduce bass notes, Imec's on-line tool that quantifies the environmental impact of IC manufacturing, and unwelcome news of redundancies at Imagination Technologies...