"We’re recruiting every week,” Dr Jalal Bagherli, CEO of Dialog, told EW, “we started in Edinburgh last year with three designers and already we’re up to 20.”

There’s a curious yarn flying around today to the effect that Apple has designed  Intel’s Atom processor into its iPhone.

x86 processor maker Via Technologies has up-graded its 100x72mm Pico-ITX motherboard, the VIA EPIA P700, and simplified its connections easing industrial use.

Southampton's Quantum Research Group, acquired by Atmel in March, is to move its touch control products over to Atmel processors, and is to retain its UK base.

Politicians come expensive in the US. According to the US magazine Forbes, Qualcomm spent $1.5m lobbying pols in Q1 2008.

Gary Kibblewhite, chairman of the International Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA) recently visited a number of distributors of electronic components on the Chinese mainland and gave a presentation to others in an attempt to encourage Chinese component distributors set up their own local trade association.

The rising tide of counterfeit components is causing manufacturers to tighten their grip on the supply chain. Many are recommending that customers only buy from authorised sources. But is this the new commercial reality or an over-simplification? Can the market really exist on authorised-only sources? Asks Edmund Coady.

Within today’s pessimistic economic climate, how is the electronics industry holding up? If you follow the latest figures from industry bodies, such as Afdec or DMASS, you might think that the UK electronics industry is dead in the water or at least struggling to stay afloat. There is no doubt that the huge exodus of electronic manufacturing over the last ...

Highly integrated power-management IC for DDR cache-memory battery backup eliminates multiple discrete components in existing systems.

Atmel has announced its AT73C237 Power Management Unit (PMU) compatible with a 5V input supply and generating four regulated output voltages, with programmable