Everyone loves wine don’t they? Well most people do, yet there are two major issues that can cause consternation when it comes to choosing your wine. One is how to know which wine is the best, and what is going to compliment your meal the most? And more importantly with a new wine - how do you know exactly what it is going to taste like?

Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top five sensors products released in April.

There’s no doubt that the last 12 months have been a very difficult and challenging period for the electronics industry. However, just when we seemed to have turned the corner of the coronavirus pandemic, we have now been hit by another piece of devastating news.

Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top power products to have been released in April.

Technological innovation seems to speed up every year. If you go back far enough, then quality of life didn’t change very much from one century to the next, and before the industrial revolution, neither did technology. Now though, the human race is going at light speed, and it’s hard to predict what will happen over the next decade, let alone the next 100 years; but with a pinch of salt in mind, what might be waiting for us around the...

Since graphene appeared on the scene, it has been touted as having the ability to revolutionise electronics - but why is that? For anyone not in the know, graphene is a one atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, by being only one atom thick, the material occupies a very small space.

There are many barriers and challenges when it comes to gender equality issues in business and technology, and we have highlighted many throughout this column. Electronic Specifier’s Anna Flockett delves deeper into the Reykjavik Index.

Dialog Semiconductor is a provider of standard and custom Integrated Circuits (ICs) that power the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT applications. Dialog help to propel the next generation of today’s devices by providing Battery Management, Bluetooth low energy, WiFi, Flash memory, and Configurable Mixed-signal ICs, improving power efficiency, reducing charge times, while increasing performance and productivity on the go.

Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top five design products released in March.

Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top sensor products to have been released in March.

Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top power products to have been released in March.

2020 was a year like no other that threw up some unprecedented challenges for all of us. The electronics sector certainly didn’t emerge from the year unscathed, and with the UK currently in the middle of lockdown number 3, a degree of uncertainty still abounds.

From the world of distribution Rob Rospedzihowski, President, Sales, EMEA in 2019 of Farnell an Avnet Company will be discussing the effects of COVID-19 and Brexit. His presentation is followed by a Q&A with Managing Editor of Electronic Specifier, Joe Bush.

2020 was a year like no other that threw up some unprecedented challenges for all of us. The electronics sector certainly didn’t emerge from the year unscathed, and with the UK currently in the middle of lockdown number 3, a degree of uncertainty still abounds.

The Electronic Specifier Webinar Summit will be an engaging one-day event held on 1st September which is brought to you by a publishing team dedicated to the electronics industry, who have become incredibly well versed in attending, exhibiting, and hosting events, including the many virtual shows, conferences and exhibitions that have taken place since COVID-19 confined us to barracks early in 2020.

In recent years, girls and women are showing more interest in pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers than ever before. From GCSEs to university courses, we are seeing a gradual shift towards STEM subjects, and it is important to keep this momentum going.

The 3rd of March saw world hearing day across the globe, and to mark the occasion, the Electronic Specifier Podcast caught up with Mimi, a company using technology to bring people of all hearing capabilities a tailored audio experience. 

“Water, water everywhere nor a drop to drink.” Distributors must know how the Ancient Mariner felt. They are buoyant on an ocean of orders; it’s sourcing the product to slake the thirst of their customers that’s the problem.

As we very recently celebrated International Women’s Day, there is no better time to sing the praises of an incredible lady in the technology industry - Sudha Mani, a business technology speaker, STEM ambassador and tech and digital entrepreneur. Anna Flockett reports.

Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD), a day when countries all over the world celebrate the achievements of women. IWD has been observed since the early 1900s and each year the organisers choose a new theme as a banner under which they can unify the direction of everyone’s efforts and help raise awareness. This year’s theme is 'Choose to Challenge' and we can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias a...