The BBC has announced that the release date of its educational Micro:bit computer has been delayed again.The small, low-cost computer designed to teach Year 7 children how to code was supposed to have been released last October. This was pushed back, first due to design problems and then due to changing the power supply from a coin-shaped batte...

ARM has launched what is says is its highest performing and most power efficient 4K capable display processor. The Mali-DP650, which is optimised for 2.5K formats, is intended to drive new visual content and gaming experiences on mobile devices.“The processor will enable mobile screens with multiple composition layers, for graphics and vi...

The NYU WIRELESS research centre has announced it will build an advanced programmable platform to design, prototype, and validate technologies vital for the millimetre wave (mmWave) radio spectrum, which is claimed to be potentially key to launching 5G.Funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) programme that supports exploratory work on pot...

York EMC Services (YES) has expanded its UKAS accreditation to add the testing of products containing a radio function to its portfolio. Short Range Devices (SRDs) feature amongst YES’s initial accreditation encompassing products ranging from car key fobs to security and social alarms.The Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Di...

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) have developed nanoparticle inks featuring transparent, conductive oxides (TCOs) and claim the transparent lines and patterns, which can be created by direct gravure printing on thin plastic foils remain electrically conductive even after bending.According to the team, conductive TC...

CUI has announced a partnership with Virtual Power Systems (VPS) to set a new standard for an efficient power infrastructure for data centres.In this agreement, CUI will design, manufacture and distribute the hardware component of the ICE (Intelligent Control of Energy) system, said to be the only solution for intelligent power utilisation avai...

Continental says that its electronic horizon (eHorizon) sensor system can play just as important a role in vehicle fuel efficiency as the properties of the engine, weight and aerodynamics.Based on high-precision topographic trip data and a GPS signal, the eHorizon supplies a three-dimensional profile of the route ahead to the Adaptive Cruise Co...

FlexEnable and ISORG, specialists in flexible organic electronics and organic photodetectors and large area image sensors in printed electronics respectively, have unveiled the world’s first large area flexible fingerprint sensor on plastic designed for biometric applications.With a thickness of 0.03cm, an 8.6 x 8.6cm active area, 84&micr...

Following the launch in 2015 of embedded SRAM IP for 28nm fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) process technology, Sheffield based sureCore has now unveiled a memory compiler for the process.The compiler is said to allow designers to trade off the number of words, word length and multiplex factor. Supporting single and dual port SRAM IP...

A team of neurosurgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St.Louis and engineers at the University of Illinois has developed wireless brain sensors that monitor intracranial pressure and temperature and then are absorbed by the body, negating the need for surgery to remove them.Such implants could be used to monitor patients with t...