History repeats itself as we witness the sale of yet another one of our cutting edge British electronics companies following the £24billion purchase of ARM by Japanese company SoftBank. OK, so that acquisition is yesterday’s news but for those of us who were i...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

If you are looking to a performance boost for embedded applications, the Genuino 101 is a great place to start. It has all the support and infrastructure of the original Arduino Uno but thanks to a change in processor the 101 represents a big improvement in co...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016

Hardware and software development tools specialist SEGGER Microcontroller and Renesas Electronics Europe have agreed a collaboration deal aimed at expanding the capabilities of Renesas’ RX Family of 32bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This will happen by adopting S...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Hardware and software development tools specialist SEGGER Microcontroller and Renesas Electronics Europe have agreed a collaboration deal aimed at expanding the capabilities of Renesas’ RX Family of 32bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This will happen by adopting S...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Infineon Technologies is buying the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (Wolfspeed) of Cree for approx €740 million in cash. The deal includes the SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. Wolfspeed has been a part of Cree for three decades and is a pro...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

Infineon Technologies is buying the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (Wolfspeed) of Cree for approx €740 million in cash. The deal includes the SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. Wolfspeed has been a part of Cree for three decades and is a pro...

In The News | By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

Infineon Technologies is buying the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (Wolfspeed) of Cree for approx €740 million in cash. The deal includes the SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. Wolfspeed has been a part of Cree for three decades and is a pro...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

A report into cybercrime in the UK has said that criminal cyber capability currently outpaces this country’s response to cybercrime. In the first cybercrime report to be published by the National Crime Agency (NCA) the organisation calls for stronger collabora...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 08-07-2016

A report into cybercrime in the UK has said that criminal cyber capability currently outpaces this country’s response to cybercrime. In the first cybercrime report to be published by the National Crime Agency (NCA) the organisation calls for stronger collabora...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 08-07-2016

We all know the younger generation are much more into social networking than silver-surfers but recent research has shown they are laissez-faire to the point of being dangerously relaxed about the online security of their personal data. In extreme cases the sa...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 06-07-2016

We all know the younger generation are much more into social networking than silver-surfers but recent research has shown they are laissez-faire to the point of being dangerously relaxed about the online security of their personal data. In extreme cases the sa...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 06-07-2016

A common public radio interface (CPRI) RF measurement option that is claimed to cut time and costs involved with testing remote radio heads (RRHs) on 4G networks has been unveiled by test and measurement company Anritsu. The company has implemented CPRI RF mea...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 05-07-2016