Amid hundreds of new microcontrollers launched this week at Embedded World, two UK companies took a new spin on their devices - Cyan and its eCOG controller, and FTDI and its Vinculum chip.

Zarlink Semiconductor has announced that it has sold its Swindon-based semiconductor foundry to French manufacturer MHS Electronics

Sir Robin Saxby, first CEO of ARM, reckons that interviewing new recruits for the company was one of the most important tasks he had to master.

Prices are plummeting, demand is erratic, output is soaring, so the industry is piling on new production capacity. That's the semiconductor industry.

Most executives expect revenue growth in the next fiscal year, with 52 per cent estimating growth in excess of 10 per cent

Hospital bedside terminal supplier Jaotech teams up with US healthcare infotainment company 5Plus3 Digital to supply systems for 10,000 hospital beds in the US.

It’s that time of the month again where we take at look at what were the most popular Gadget Masters for February. 1. Pete decided to give his lamp a facelift Making an ordinary lamp a work of art Seeing great potential in a normal, off-the-shelf product, Pete Griffiths designed a circuit he popped into the lamp to give it ...

Two of Gartner Dataquest’s predictions for the next four years could be feed off eachother: first, that Apple will double its unit market share in the US and Europe by 2011, and second, that half of all travelling workers will leave their laptops at home in favour of other devices by 2012.

Electronics Weekly puts its questions to an industry figure: Per-Olof Loof is CEO of Kemet, the capacitor manufacturer and supplier

Multi-core devices are driving into embedded applications with new quad core chips from Intel and Renesas and the coming launch of benchmarking for multi-core systems. Intel has launched three new multi-core processors for the embedded market with two support chipsets, and extended its minimum lifetime support to seven years for all its chips in the face of customer pressure from ...