Microchip has developed a capacitive contactless identification system that relies on near-field effects around the human body. A $1 fob or token, carried about a person, sets up a field that extends to the wearers fingertips, allowing them to prove they are the carrier by reaching their hand towards a reader. Branded BodyCom, no licence fees are payable providing it is ...

There was once a massive industrial conglomerate involved in everything from automobiles to aerospace which, one day, woke up to the fact that it owned half a dozen different semiconductor companies.

Kontron has said it will support the two flavours of the CompactPCI interface, these are CompactPCI Serial and CompactPCI Serial Mesh.

Every day new applications appear on the world’s mobile communications networks and user behaviour keeps adapting to new ways of streaming video, sharing files and communicating. New business demands, such as traffic monetisation, must be met, as well as growing legal pressures for net neutrality, data loss prevention and privacy legislation. Operators are addressing these challenges by incorporating greater intelligence ...

It was at the end of February 2012 that the Raspberry Pi officially went on sale for the first time. So it's Happy First Birthday to the Pi!

It was previewed that Intel x86 Atom chips would be appearing in Android devices at Mobile World Congress, and it has come to pass. An entry-level priced, seven-inch tablet was the first announced, the Asus Fonepad, but more are expected to be powered by Intel. It runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean I).

Organic transistors manufactured at CEA-Liten (Laboratory of Innovation for New Energy Technology and Nanomaterials) in France are processed using low temperature printing techniques on plastic sheet

MWC can show a lot about companies’ psyches.

XMOS has designed a multicore microcontroller which will cost under $3 in 100 unit quanities.

The PXIe-5645R vector signal transceiver has a differential or single-ended I/Q interface for testing both the RF and baseband signals with one instrument