A decade ago, people were talking about 4bit-per-cell flash. As we all now know, we are only now getting to 3bit-per-cell flash. But in the bright new dawn of 2005, there were hopes of much better things.

The UK’s national research centre for 5G mobile commucniations being built at the University of Surrey is to be part of a European project to develop millimetre-wave radio technologies for next generation cellular mobile networks. The European Commission-funded MiWaveS project will investigate the use of millimetre wave (mmW) small cells in dense urban areas to make more efficient use of the radio spectrum by deploying low-power access points ...

The European Centre for Power Electronics (ECPE) is a Germany-based industry initiative for research, education and technology transfer in power electronics. The role of the ten-year-old ECPE initiative is to support research on power electronic systems and pass this into the industry via workshops and tutorials. The ECPE was founded in 2003 by eight industrial members and now is comprised of 75 member companies. The initiative has created network ...

The Internet of Things will see ever more sensors ingeniously embedded to communicate with ever more systems, the story goes. Well, here’s one further new example of sensors nestling into our private sphere… Sony has announced its Smart Tennis Sensor to plug into the bottom of your tennis racquet. It will record your swing and shot data – for real-time ...

This week Imagination Technologies (owners of MIPS) announced a MIPS-based educational computer (MIPS Creator CI20) that it is very much pitching against Raspberry Pi. This is clearly a very capable board, with a dual-core 1.2GHz MIPS microcontroller. I am a bit torn on which is best for the world of education: A single educational computer for everyone, with all developers ...

UMC has paid $48 million for a 9.3% stake in a newly formed foundry company which is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Semiconductor including its 300mm wafer manufacturing facility located in Kuwana, Mie, Japan.

The universities of Leeds and Sheffield have now joined forces with the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF), following 11 other universities such as Imperial College, Southampton and Surrey. They are now part of part of a UKESF programme looking to address the declining number of UK students signing up for Electrical and Electronic Engineering degrees (UCAS data apparently shows a ...

Intel’s China strategy is either fiendishly clever or a sign of desperation. The rumour now is that it’s getting into bed with Chinese fabless mobile chip company Spreadtrum.

NXP’s evaluation board for the LPC4357 ARM Cortex-M4/M0 based microcontroller comes with a 480 x 272 LCD module. Designated the LPC4357-K43WQA , the board is available from element14 for €65.33. The base baord includes the 256-pin ARM Cortex-M4/M0 microcontroller which has up to 1Mbyte on-chip flash and 136kbyte SRAM. On the board there is 32Mbyte SDRAM and Spansion 256Mbit QSPI flash, along with audio codec and audio jacks and ...

It’s my bounden duty to report on the new Samsung Gear S smartwatch, despite my own aversion to wearable technology!