Archive : 2015 год

The Carrefour hypermarket in Lille, France has replaced its fluorescent lighting with 2.5km of LED lighting from Philips that can also transmit location signals to a shopper's smartphone, triggering an app to provide location based services.The system in operation at the hypermarket comprises 800 linear LED fixtures that use Visible Light C...

Risk is the biggest issue facing semiconductor manufacturers, according to Professor Asen Asenov, the Glasgow University academic who is also chief executive of Gold Standard Simulations (GSS), which specialises in predictive simulation of nano CMOS devices.Risk is the biggest issue facing semiconductor manufacturers, according to Professor Ase...

Demand for semiconductors through European distributors grew strongly in the first quarter of 2015, continuing the positive trend shown in the last half of 2014, according to DMASS – the Distributors' and Manufacturers' Association of Semiconductor Specialists. Sales of semiconductors through distribution channels in Q1 grew by 13.3%...

University of Illinois researchers have developed heat-triggered self-destructing electronic devices, a step toward reducing electronic waste and boosting sustainability in device manufacturing.The researchers, led by aerospace engineering professor Scott White, published their work in the journal Advanced Materials. "We have demo...

Regensburg based Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR) has acquired all of Amantys' industrial property rights, including patents and brands, as well as most of its technical facilities and equipment.MR is a leading developer of power transformers, employs about 3000 people and has revenues of €650million. It says the deal represents another...

Ophthalmic technology group and eye care retailer VSP Global has announced the development of 'Project Genesis', a wearable prototype pair of optical frames that integrates health-tracking technology.Sensors, including an accelerometer and gyros, integrated into the temples of the glasses track health metrics such as steps, calories bur...

Looking to create a market in formal verification apps, OneSpin Solutions has launched a software platform that allows third party companies with limited knowledge of formal technology to develop and deliver domain specific formal based apps.Called 360 LaunchPad, the software can be delivered as part of the app by the developer or the app can b...

SEMTA, the sector skills council, has handed Sajid Javid, the newly appointed Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, an 8000 word document called Skills Vision. The documents calls on the Government to help in the creation of an 'industrial revolution' in schools and colleges, quality apprenticeships and industry-focused hi...

The University of Bristol says a team from its Communication Systems and Networks research group has developed a technique that can estimate and cancel out the interference from one's own transmission. This would allow a radio to transmit and receive on the same channel at the same time and therefore use only half the spectrum needed by current...

Researchers at MIT, working with colleagues from IBM's TJ Watson Research Center, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Minnesota, have coupled the properties of different two dimensional materials in a way which is said to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves. The team says this could lead to new kinds of...