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Low-power 60 GHz radar chip for contactless health tracking in battery-powered devices

ecsn/afdec mid-year update for UK & Ireland electronic components market forecast revised down

LIVE & updated! All the latest EPDT COVID-19 electronics industry news & stories...

EPDT August 2020 issue (inc. Manufacturing & Medical features) now available online

STEM Matters: EngineeringUK analysis – Educational pathways into engineering

Editor's comment: In STEM, diversity matters...

- How COVID-19 is making STEM cool for careers, according to new IET research (29/07/2020)
  
  New research by the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) has revealed that young people have taken inspiration from healthcare professionals & engineers during the Covid-19 pandemic to enhance their perceptions of real and life changing engineering & science to consider these roles for future careers.
- Registration now open for Digital AI Conference presented by Mouser & partners (29/07/2020)
  
  Online artificial intelligence (AI) event with industry leaders – including Google, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel, Texas Instruments & NXP Semiconductors – to take place on 9th & 10th September.
- Electronics design demands creativity, as well as logic & precision, according to chip design firm (29/07/2020)
  
  IC design & delivery consultancy, Sondrel is looking for electronic design engineers who can use both left & right brain thinking to become Chip Architects. Read more about their design process...
- Xilinx joins the Open RAN Policy Coalition (28/07/2020)
  
  Further demonstrates commitment to 5G wireless market growth with broad technology portfolio to enable deployment of open networks across multi-vendor ecosystems.
- COVID-19 educational online event watched by thousands of eager students & STEM fans (28/07/2020)
  
  'Big Bang Digital 2020 – science, engineering & Covid-19', the one-day digital STEM event which took place in mid-July, has given almost 50,000 young people the opportunity to listen to and speak with scientists, engineers, technicians, healthcare professionals & students about the essential role of science & engineering during a pandemic. Sessions from the day are now available to view on demand.
- Online event calling for greater diversity in UK engineering roles to be hosted by RS, in collaboration with the IET (23/07/2020)
  
  ‘REflect’, a digital event hosted by RS Components in collaboration with the IET, will show how organisations that tap into the talents of diverse ethnic groups can help address the UK engineering skills shortage.
- Obituary: George English, an electronics industry stalwart, 1935-2020 (18/07/2020)
  
  The Leadership Group of electronics industry trade association, the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn) was saddened to learn of the death of George English, founder of G. English Electronics Ltd. (GELEC). George died in the ‘Hospice in the Weald’ (Kent) on 1st July 2020, aged 85, after a short illness. George will be sadly missed by his wife, Elizabeth, and children, Susan, David & Tracy, and his six grandchildren.
- Disruptive Bizen transistor technology secures Capex investment to expedite delivery of first product (15/07/2020)
  
  Early adopters lining up to use the novel Bizen transistor wafer process technology, which uses quantum tunnel mechanics; silicon data & PDK to be delivered this summer.
- Winners of STEM Extraordinary Engineering Challenge revealed (15/07/2020)
  
  Cleaning the oceans, elderly care and mental wellbeing are all addressed by the winning designs from RS Components' STEM Extraordinary Engineering Challenge.

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