In the early 1980s Siemens, the biggest engineering company in Europe, decided it needed to be world-class in chip engineering.

Is the Age of Silicon Start-Ups Over? Was the question asked by Peter Claydon, founding CEO of picoChip at the Silicon South-West Viva Entrepreneurs! Meeting in Bath this morning. Unfortunately, Claydon’s answer was: “It probably is. The Golden Age of the ‘80s and ‘90s has passed.” “I left Deltenna about three months ago and I’m looking around at possibilities,” said ...

In 2011 the event attracted over 100 delegates to Bristol in September 2011 with talks from companies such as ARM and ST-Ericsson, academics from Bristol University

The EU is funding the development of methods and tools for formal modelling, verification and validation "which will make it possible to produce precise models for embedded systems and help eliminate design errors before...

We’ll all be selling tickets to Theme Park Europe if we don’t start building the new companies of the future, Lawrence Johns of Amadeus Capital Partners told the Silicon South-West Viva Entrepreneurs meeting in Bath this morning. “We need a lot more geniuses,” said Johns, “VCs are getting grief because we’re getting crap returns in Europe and it’s your fault ...

After the routine countdown, the Heavenly Palace thundered into space. The launch of the as-yet uncrewed prototype science lab - Tiangong 1 in its native Chinese - is a key step in China's plans to have a large, crewed space station orbiting Earth by 2020.

Here’s a good one to flag from the Cultrue Lab blog on our sister site New Scientist. The Royal Society has announced its shortlist for the Winton Prize… Kat Austen, CultureLab editor, writes: The bastion of science that is the Royal Society has announced its shortlist for the Winton Prize for Science Books. The judges have whittled it down to ...

PEI-Genesis is to add the Cinch MIL-C-26500/BACC45 & 63 product line to its existing range of connectors for aerospace and military markets.

So what did you do on Wednesday to celebrate International Right to Know Day? Well the European Ombudsman Professor Nikiforos Diamandouros, called on the EU administration to be more transparent.

Doing things with bicycle dynamos is a bit of am obsession with me and several times I have pondered how to power things that do not need all of the dynamos output. The trouble with a permanent magnet generator, as these things are, is turning them off as they don't like to stop making power...