Researchers at Berkeley Labs in the US say that nanowires with diameters as small as 200nm can be tuned to a range of light including visible green and blue wavelengths. The team believes the breakthrough, which supports the emission of bright and stable laser light is ‘promising’ for optoelectronics. Nanoscale lasers could bring optica...

Qualcomm Technologies has launched three Snapdragon processors targeted at LTE applications. According to the company, the Snapdragon 625, 435 and 425 are designed to deliver ‘premium tier user experiences’ to smartphones.Snapdragon 625 is the first in its class to use 14nm FinFET technology.This brings a reduction in power consumpt...

Lattice Semiconductor has expanded its ECP5 range of low power, small form factor connectivity and acceleration FPGAs.The additions are said to be pin compatible with ECP5 FPGAs and enable OEMs to update their designs to meet evolving interface requirements in the industrial, communications and consumer markets.“Our ECP5 FPGA family has p...

Panasonic, Hiroshima University and the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology claim to have developed a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of signal transmission at a per-channel data rate of over 10Gbit/s over multiple channels at around 300GHz, with the aggregate multi-channel data rate said to exceed 100Gbit/s...

Innovate UK has formed a UK based collaboration to develop sensing technologies for the real time monitoring of machined metal parts. The ‘Intelligent Tooling’ project is developing embedded sensors and electronic components within high value machining applications in manufacturing sectors including aerospace, rail, automotive, marine a...

Lindsley Ruth, appointed chief executive of Electrocomponents in April 2015, says he is in the early stages of a ‘cultural transformation’ at RS Components.“We’re working to build the electronics business,” he said, “but need to implement such things as batch traceability.” Two ‘hidden gems’...

A team from Abaco Systems’ Towcester facility has won the overall prize in Mentor Graphics’ Technology Leadership Awards. The awards scheme recognises innovative solutions to system design challenges.The Abaco team designed a 3U VPX single board computer on a short timescale, whilst dealing with significant challenges, including the...

The 2016.03 release of HSPICE, FineSim and CustomSim simulators from Synopsys will include a native environment for simulation management and analysis; a move which the EDA company claims will improve analogue verification productivity.The move will provide designers with access to the advanced features available in Synopsys SPICE and FastSPICE...

A report from Beecham Research suggests that, while most of the hype around augmented reality (AR) has tended to focus on consumer technology, growth in demand over the next five years will come from business applications.According to the report – Augmented Reality and Wearable Technology – manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and r...

Imagination Technologies has announced that Sir Hossein Yassaie has stepped down after 18 years as the company’s chief executive with immediate effect.Andrew Heath, a non-executive director who has held executive roles at Rolls-Royce and Alent, has been appointed interim chief executive while Imagination searches for a new chief executive...