Surrey-based fabless solar cell maker Quantasol is moving to pilot production. The firm's technology is in triple junction concentrator cells. Triple junction cells are expensive to make per unit area...

If the Euro is to be saved, and whether it’s worth saving is problematical, then there’ll have to be a two-tier Euro.

RF Micro Devices has released a 75W GaN RF unmatched power transistor, claimed to deliver superior performance against competing GaAs and Si transistors. Dubbed RF3932, it follows the recent release of...

STMicroelectronics has announced a high-end ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller family of 30 devices, and is to make Cortex-M0 and M4-based MCUs. Unlike previous STM M3s which are made in foundries...

LeCroy and Evatronix are working together on a project for higher speed USB 3.0 technology. The test firm will work with the semiconductor company on product development for the next generation high speed serial bus technology. The project will include chip design and compliance testing for USB 3.0 physical as well as the protocol layers. “As signal speeds increase, compliance ...

Applied Materials, has resolved a potential civil lawsuit with Samsung though itis employees are still subject to criminal charges over the alleged passing of Samsung-proprietary IC-making knowledge to Hynix. The Applied-Samsung agreement states: ‘Applied will provide volume-based rebates on purchases of semiconductor products by Samsung and its affiliated companies. Applied also will provide volume-based incentives related to Samsung’s use of Applied ...

Virgin Media has deployed a new corporate wireless network across 30 of its UK sites after discovering up to 500 staff members were using shop-bought routers to access unsecured wireless networks at work.

“The evolution of semiconductor electronics over this time has been so dramatic it has been more akin to a revolution,” Robert Green, president and CEO at Renesas Electronics Europe tells Electronics Weekly. “Even over the last 25 years, both memory densities and microcontroller computing power have increased almost 10,000 times. “The incessant drive to increase computing power and speed is ...

World phone men discuss electronic exchanges Bell announce new system at IEE Conference 50 years ago today, in the November 30th 1960 edition of Electronics Weekly, this was the headline on page 9.

Well, here's a great resource in a similar vein - a site dedicated to "built-for-fun electric vehicles". Electric go karts, to you and me. See buggies.builtforfun.co.uk/index.php