How impressive is this? It's how to build what is described as a fully-functional microscope using Arduinos and a Raspberry Pi. There's also LEGO and 3D printing in the mix.

The most important quality of a manager is the ability to be strict with yourself, said Tsuyoshi Kawanishi, the great CEO of Toshiba Semiconductors, in his book called Chip Management. Kawanishi went on to quote Confucius: ”In The Analects, Confucius said: ‘Do not deplore that others do not know you, but do deplore that you do not know others. ‘Do ...

Nick Hill, CEO at the engineering and design consultancy Plextek, laments the currently disadvantaged position of students affected by the Covid-19 pandemic due to exam cancellations, and shines a light at the end of the tunnel by reintroducing internships. When the history of the UK’s response to coronavirus is written, I’m confident that the cancellation of exams will be seen as ...

There's a change at Intel for Chief Engineering Officer, a low-power alternative to neural network processing, the ARM China row, Intel's surprise announcement on foundry and Imec looking into the future...

Apple had calendar Q2 sales of $59.69 billion up 11% y-o-y for a profit of  $11.25 billion which was up 18% y-o-y..  iPhone sales were $26.4 billion; iPad sales were $6.58 billion; Mac sales were $7.08 billion; Services’ revenues were $13.16 billion; Wearables’ sales were  $6.45 billion. Amazon had Q2 sales of $88.9 billion up 40% y-o-y  with operating income increased to $5.8 billion compared ...

Samsung Electronics has reported a Q2  operating profit of $6.86 billion up 26% sequentially and 23% y-o-y. The profits growth came mainly from chips and displays. Revenue was $44.5 billion down 4% sequentially any and 6% y-oy. The company’s semiconductor capex budget this year is $12.4 billion. Earnings from Samsung’s memory business improved in Q2, led by  demand from datacentres ...

NAND Flash and  DRAM  will remain the largest IC markets in 2020 accounting for a third of total IC  sales this year, says IC Insights. IC Insights’ Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2020,  ranks the 33 largest IC product categories based on their expected sales and unit shipment volumes. The five largest of these IC product segments in terms of ...

With the successful launch of Nasa’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover from Cape Canaveral, Teledyne Imaging is highlighting that its CCDs are integrated into remote sensing instruments on board the exploratory system. The Mars 2020 mission is part of a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet, including looking for signs of past microbial life. Specifically, Teledyne’s CCD42-10 sensor ...

A new way of imaging – harnessing AI to turn time into visions of 3D space – has been found by researchers at Glasgow University,  the Polytechnic University of Milan and Delft University of Technology. The discovery could help cars, mobile devices and health monitors develop 360-degree awareness. Photos and videos are usually produced by capturing photons – the building blocks ...

 Kyocera is presenting  MIP Technology (Memory in Pixel) as a way to lower power LCDs. All the  pixels include an SRAM resulting in a power consumption for static image down to 5µW. By the power saving pixel selection method, only the selected pixel were driven. Which is different to the line selection method As well as low power consumption, the ...