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- Navitas drives Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Explorer at 210 W – new ultra-fast charging record (29/11/2022)
  
  High-speed GaNFast™ ICs enable high-power 210 W charger to achieve 1-100% in just 9 minutes.
- SFN announces Bizen foundry network that halves IC purchasing price & slashes lead time (29/11/2022)
  
  WaferTrain® fully equipped to build Zpolar® transistors with Zpolar® Tunnel Logic (ZTL).
- Southern returns in February 2023 (24/11/2022)
  
  Spanning both the mechanical engineering & electronics sectors in approximately equal measure, Southern Manufacturing & Electronics is the UK’s largest annual engineering & technology exhibition and a must-see event. As usual, it will co-locate with AutoAero, a specialist theme devoted to the aerospace & automotive industries.
- Engineers climb the ratings to become Britain’s second most trusted profession (23/11/2022)
  
  Almost 9 in 10 people (87%) trust engineers to tell them the truth, putting them just ahead of doctors (85%) – topped only by nurses (89%). Engineers are one of only three professions whose trust score has improved since 2021.
- electronica confirms its status as the world’s leading trade fair for electronics (18/11/2022)
  
  The global electronics industry met again in person from November 15-18 2022 as electronica returned to Munich, Germany. 2,144 exhibitors, 64% of whom came from countries outside of Germany, showcased innovations that covered the entire spectrum of electronics to around 70,000 visitors from around 100 countries at this world-leading trade fair.
- NECTO Studio 2.3.0 IDE from MIKROE adds Red Pitaya enabling signal analysis to be performed without expensive lab equipment (16/11/2022)
  
  Planet Debug – industry’s first hardware-as-a-service platform – now adds remote signal analysis to remote development & debugging.
- “Electronics industry paves the way for climate protection” finds electronica Trend Index (11/11/2022)
  
  In the run-up to electronica, an online survey of participants was carried out to investigate some sustainability aspects of the electronics industry – which will meet in mid-November in Munich, Germany at the world’s leading trade fair & conference for electronics. This year, the show's focus is, among other things, on a future vision of an all-electric society based on CO2-neutral energies.
- Spotlight on T Levels awareness during 10th annual Tomorrow's Engineers Week (09/11/2022)
  
  T Levels have the potential to deliver the much-needed skilled engineering workforce in the UK; however, a new report published today by EngineeringUK highlights that awareness among young people & employers is surprisingly low.
- Rewilding, better CGI & mechanical bees top students' ideas for the future (07/11/2022)
  
  During Tomorrow's Engineers Week (#TEWeek22) this week, we are celebrating 10 years of inspiring young people about STEM (science, technology, engineering & mathematics) – and engineering careers. Thousands of students around the world are tuning in to watch the Future Minds broadcast – and voting on their favourite ideas that will shape the future of engineering.
- Manufacturing & Engineering Week 2023: 'The Glastonbury of the industrial sector' (07/11/2022)
  
  Award-winning trade show organiser, Nineteen Group has announced the return of Manufacturing & Engineering Week in June 2023. The week-long festival combines both live & digital events celebrating the best that the UK industrial sector has to offer. The centrepieces of the week are four co-located exhibitions taking place at Birmingham’s NEC:
- Editor’s comment: Engineers will save the day… (02/11/2022)
  
  Regular EPDT readers will know that I often write about the key role engineers play in addressing the grand challenges facing society – from improving energy security & confronting climate change, to ensuring universal access to clean drinking water & maximising the benefits of AI for all. Engineers are tasked with creating, developing, building & maintaining the technologies to solve these problems & improve everyday life...
- A hotbed of innovation: New research reveals engineering adds up to an estimated £645bn to the UK’s economy annually (02/11/2022)
  
  On National Engineering Day, new research from the Royal Academy of Engineering has revealed that the UK is an engineering powerhouse, with the profession generating up to an estimated £645bn gross value added (GVA) to the UK’s economy annually – equivalent to 32% of the country’s economic output.
- “15 minutes bakers, 15 minutes!” Bake Off stars join forces to create an edible, working clock to celebrate National Engineering Day (02/11/2022)
  
  Engineers & former Great British Bake Off (GBBO) contestants Rahul Mandal, Andrew Smyth & Giuseppe Dell’Anno created the cake to celebrate National Engineering Day.
- EPDT November 2022 issue (inc. Manufacturing & Automotive features + T&M supplement) now available online (02/11/2022)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Manufacturing technologies & Automotive applications, plus the latest edition of EPDT's regular Test & Measurement (T&M) supplement...
- InfrastructurAL(PR): technology for the smart road (01/11/2022)
  
  The smart home is no longer a lofty ideal. Voice-activated lights, remote thermostats & video doorbells are flashy, but not unattainable; you probably know several people who own smart speakers. By the end of 2022, according to market research firm, Statista, the smart home market will break $125bn in the US alone.
- The amazing technology behind EV batteries (01/11/2022)
  
  Unlike a single energy storage element, such as a fuel tank, electric vehicle (EV) battery packs consist of hundreds of individual lithium-ion (Li-Ion) battery cells in a long series. When not operated within a carefully controlled range, the capacity & lifetime of these battery cells can diminish & diverge over time & operating conditions.
- Determining the potential of your AI algorithm begins with measurement (01/11/2022)
  
  At the core of every AI algorithm, explains Jeff Harris, Vice President, Global Corporate & Portfolio Marketing at electronics T&M expert, Keysight Technologies, are three basic ingredients: 1) the ability to measure; 2) knowing how much of what you measure needs to be processed; and, of course, 3) the ability to process more than one input at a time.
- Differentiate your industrial control system from the crowd: the benefits of ASICs in industrial sensors (01/11/2022)
  
  A recent study by Ericsson found that almost two thirds of manufacturers believe their company will be at least 80% automated in the next decade. This transformation will not be possible without industrial control systems, which are the mechanism behind automated machine independence & motion.
- Industry urged to showcase engineering during the 10th Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (27/10/2022)
  
  Employers & engineers are being asked to flood social media with positive images, stories & messages about engineering careers to show young people the real face of engineering.
- Manufacturing & Engineering Week 2023 to integrate recent Nineteen Group event acquisitions (24/10/2022)
  
  Nineteen Group will integrate recent acquisitions into its manufacturing & engineering event series. Smart Factory Expo will move from its current November date & location to run during Manufacturing & Engineering Week in June 2023 at The NEC in Birmingham. The newly acquired Drives & Controls, Fluid Power Systems & Airtech events will also feature as part of M&E Week, with a dedicated zone in 2023, before returning as standalone events in June 2024.

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