The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) says worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $29.7billion in November 2014, an increase of 9.1% over the same month in 2013. Meanwhile, year to date sales in 2014 were said to be 10% higher than at the same point in 2013. "Global semiconductor sales through November have matched the total...

A range of oscilloscopes from Pico Technology is said to be suited to use by mainstream electronics design engineers. Called the PicoScope 3000D Series, the devices offer bandwidths of up to 200 MHz bandwidth, two or four analogue channels plus 16 digital channels on the mixed signal models. With memory sizes ranging from 64 to 512Msamples, the sco...

Researchers from Harvard, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago have enhanced the fluorescent light emission of diamond nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres, a move said to have promise for quantum computing. NV centres contain an unpaired electron that can store information using spin. The electron's spin...

In a development which could help address the current data processing limitations of today's technology, a team of Stanford engineers has pioneered a scalable 3D computer chip that interconnects logic and memory.The researchers believe that with further work, the advance could enable large amounts of data to be processed quickly and more ef...

Huawei, EE and Qualcomm have partnered for an LTE category 9 interoperability trial, claiming to have achieved download speeds of up to 410Mb/s.According to the partners, this represents a significant step forward in the industry's attempt to improve download speeds and reliability. Testing was conducted using QTI's Qualcomm Sn...

Academics from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have collaborated with Eblana Photonics to develop an approach that enables advanced modulation format signals to be generated by the modulation of laser currents. The research, published in Nature Communications, explores a new approach to the generat...

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced funding for 10 research projects that are expected to develop new and exciting functional materials, as well as accelerate the application of the materials. The projects, which will involve 17 universities, are receiving funding of £32.1million. Welcoming th...

Xilinx says its Kintex UltraScale KU040 FPGAs have moved into volume production on a 20nm process. "Xilinx is pleased to move the KU040 into full production," said Wouter Suverkropp, senior product line manager for Kintex FPGAs. "This milestone follows months of design work by our customers, leveraging the performance of the...

Industry body NMI and the Electronic Systems Community (ESCO) have been given the opportunity to develop a new model for apprenticeships and are looking for industry support to define the scheme and get it off the ground. According to the partners: "We are acutely aware of the shortage of engineering skills and are proactive at addres...

In a development that holds promise for future magnetic memory and logic devices, researchers in the US have successfully used an electric field to reverse the magnetisation direction in a multiferroic spintronic device at room temperature.The demonstration, made by a team from the US Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab, could lead to small...