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All Guns Firing At Intel

Intel has come out with all guns firing. After horrible Q3 figures it has further ...
Rightsizing For Space

64 years ago this was the cartoon in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26 1960: ...
Not-So-Snow-White And Her Dwarves

Googlegenerated $238 billion in revenue from its advertising segment in 2023, representing 77% of Alphabet’s ...
Ed Returns To Government

My moves to discredit the junior minister for science and technology, who was blocking my ...
Europe’s Flagging Fibre

21 years ago it was already becoming obvious that Europe’s telcos were falling behind Asian ...
Do-ers

In the same week the EU congratulated itself on winning a couple of court cases ...

Gadget Master

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UK Bebras Challenge 2024 opens for entries

One to note: the UK Bebras Challenge, a STEM computing competition, is now open for registrations for 2024. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi team for highlighting this one.
Gadget-in-Extremis: World’s most powerful electric propulsion thruster

The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) of Gateway – which is planned as NASA’s orbiting ...
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Engineer In Wonderland

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One I missed: Deluxe signal generator output stage with DAC

Analog Devices has an output stage IC designed particularly for arbitrary waveform generators and power ...
Sallen and Key filter puzzle with LTspice

I was concocting a rather silly low-pass filter design, when I remembered that Messrs Sallen ...
Excellent ‘free’ book on bipolar transistors (and other excellent free books too)

There is some hogwash out there, masquerading as engineering white papers, which are really just ...

Electro Ramblings

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Most Read – Intel funds, Tri-fold phone, NAND ASP

For those written in the last week, our most popular stories on the site cover predictions for the industry's future, Chinese unicorns, Huawei's new tri-fold phone, the NAND ASP, and Intel receiving US Chips Act money...
What caught your eye this week? (Unicorns, Uncertainty, Robot legs)

We're talking about Chinese unicorns, the state of the chip industry, use of electrostatic-hydraulic actuators in robotics, and Ofcom's view of Project Kuiper...
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Mannerisms

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Top Ten (less 5) PC Suppliers In Q2

Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five PC suppliers in Q2: Top ...
All Guns Firing At Intel

Intel has come out with all guns firing. After horrible Q3 figures it has further ...
Rightsizing For Space

64 years ago this was the cartoon in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26 1960: ...

Viewpoints

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Viewpoint: What can boost 5G performance – and public confidence?

Dr. Ali Sadri considers how some of the limitations for 5G performance can be overcome, ...
Viewpoint: Jack Pekarik – From fishing to SiGe

Ash Madni shares his thoughts on industry figure Jack Pekarik, a Master Inventor at GlobalFoundries, ...
Viewpoint: Image Sensing – Taking a new look at Camera SDKs, IoT and Smart Cities

Is there still a dividing line between consumer and business when it comes to technology, ...

Led Luminaries

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Cree boost output of XE-G colour led range

Cree LED has up-graded its 1.6 x 2.05mm lens-less XE-G led family, claiming a 20% ...
16,500 lumen LED for flashlights is not an exaggeration for once

Cree LED is aiming at portable lighting with a 16,500 lumen multi-die LED in a ...
Luceco re-lights Bolton Arena Sports Village tennis halls

Contractors picked Luceco luminaires on behalf of Bolton Arena Sports Village to upgrade the 15-year-old ...

Eyes On Android

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Google begins roll out of Android 15, available at AOSP

Google has begun the process of rolling out Android 15, the latest version of its ...
Goodbye to that app (French Revolution Day By Day)

So, farewell then, my app - French Revolution Day By Day. You were created as a part of a series of posts to show how to build a smartphone application. And now you're gone.
Google scrolls and folds Flutter to version 3.13

Google has updated Flutter – its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from ...