News & Analysis
DBA members vote to bring clients into membership and onto Board
DBA members have passed a resolution at their AGM to include clients within the membership and to bring client representation onto the DBA Board. At the AGM, DBA President Laura Haynes spoke about the renewed importance of design in creating and maintaining innovative and market leading companies in this country and around the world.
Nexeon Selected for Science Museum Exhibition
Nexeon announces that it has been chosen for inclusion in a special exhibition being put on at The Science Museum, London. Nexeon has been selected by the judges for the ‘Make it in Great Britain Challenge’. The Make it in Great Britain Challenge is a national competition to find the most promising and cutting-edge British innovations.
AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek and Texas Instruments Unleash the Next Era of Computing Innovation
Today at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit, global technology leaders came together to announce the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation. The HSA Foundation is a non-profit consortium established to define and promote an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing that will provide a common hardware specification and broad support ecosystem to make it easier for software developers to deliver innovative applic...
Preview for Semicon West, July 10th -12th, North Hall, Booth 6080 for Pickering Interfaces
Pickering Interfaces has continued to regularly release new products in both the LXI and the PXI platforms tackling the problems faced by our users in the Semiconductor industry. For the Semicon West in San Francisco this year we are exhibiting amongst others the following solutions/products on booth 6080 North Hall.
Future of Wireless International Conference 2012 highlights need for change
Over 350 senior mobile industry executives, academics and advisors from 25 countries converged on Cambridge last week to focus on the ‘Reshaping of the Mobile Industry’, driven by the increasing influence of new ‘Over The Top’ web and digital media brands such as Facebook, Google, Skype and Twitter.
Brüel & Kjær and Sikorsky sign Memorandum of Understanding
Brüel & Kjær and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen industrial cooperation between the two companies. Sikorsky are bidding their MH-60R Seahawk helicopter to replace the Danish military Lynx helicopters. The MOU is conditioned on the decision by the Danish government to procure the Seahawk.
Advantest Breaks Ground for Cheonan, S. Korea Factory
Advantest today announced that its South Korean subsidiary, Advantest Korea broke ground on June 28 for its new factory in Cheonan City, Chungnam Province, South Korea.
Multitest VP Bernhard Lorenz to Present at Test Vision 2020 Conference
VP Bernhard Lorenz will present at the upcoming Test Vision 2020 Conference, scheduled to take place July 11-12, 2012 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis during SEMICON West 2012. The presentation titled “Enabling Highly Parallel Test of SOCs, Sensors and 3D Packages,” will be held on Thursday, July 12, 2012 from 1:30-2 p.m.
World's first nickel-zinc battery manufacturing centre in China
US energy storage company PowerGenix has partnered with the China City Construction Corporation (CCCC) for the creation of the world's first nickel-zinc battery manufacturing centre.
Honda to reuse rare earth metals extracted from Used NiMH Batteries
Honda which has been extracting rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries at the plant of Japan Metals & Chemicals from April of this year, has plans to begin reusing the extracted metals before the end of 2012. Honda will pursue the recycling of precious resources by reusing extracted rare earth metals not only for nickel-metal hydride batteries, but also for use in a wide range of parts. Further, in disassembly process of used ...