Today marks the start of Tomorrow's Engineers Week, an initiative which sees government and industry unite to engage with the engineers of the future.Through talks, events, discussions and competitions, the campaign aims to change perceptions of engineering among young people, their parents and teachers. In particular, Tomorrow'...

The market for optoelectronics, sensors and discretes (O-S-D) is expected to grow by 9% this year, after a modest 1% growth in 2012 and 2013.This year, IC Insights says sales should reach a record $68.9billion. Optoelectronics is expected to continue to be the most consistent growth segment in the overall O-S-D marketplace during the next sever...

Innovate UK is to invest up to £2million in feasibility studies to stimulate innovation in advanced materials; biosciences; electronics, sensors and photonics; and information and communications. Proposals are expected to 'kick start' the delivery of new products and services which have substantial and scalable commercial pot...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has appointed its first female president.An active campaigner for inspiring women into the engineering sector, Naomi Climer will take on the role from 1 October 2015. She currently serves as the deputy president of the IET and president of Sony Media Cloud Services, a US company focus...

MEMS timing pioneer SiTime is being bought by Japanese fabless semiconductor company MegaChips for $200million in a cash deal expected to close in November 2014. According to SiTime, the deal will see two complementary fabless semiconductor companies uniting to provide solutions for the wearables, mobile and Internet of Things markets. &qu...

Materials such as graphene and molybdenum sulphide are exciting scientists with their potential to revolutionise transistors and circuits.One of the problems with graphene is the lack of a band gap. However, MoS2 has a band gap that enables it to be used to create atomically thin transistors with high on-off ratios and high voltage gain. ...

That move was made in 1998, with the formation of Cambridge Silicon Radio, which then floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2004, with a big pay out for some of its founders. Amongst the technical challenges for the industry in the 1990s was not only offering Bluetooth functionality on a single chip, but also enabling that functionality...

ARM has extended its cache coherent network offering with the addition of the CCN-502 and 512. Both interconnects have been developed in response to increased numbers of connected devices and a consequent increase in the amount of data flowing across networks.Ian Smythe, director of marketing for the company's CPU Group, noted: "We'...

Cadence Design Systems has announced an automotive functional safety verification solution, which is said to reduce by 50% the effort required by automotive designers to prepare for ISO26262 compliance.The approach, an expansion to its Incisive functional verification platform, offers fault injection and safety verification technologies to help...

Freescale has launched the QorIQ LS1043A comms processor, said by the company to be the most power efficient 64bit ARM based device.The device features four Cortex-A53 cores, each running at 1.5GHz. This is said to result in a performance of 16,000CoreMarks, with a power consumption of 6W. Senior product marketing manager Eric Dudley s...