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Chipworks, GSS & Intel's FinFET
Glasgow-based Gold Standard Simulation (GSS) has been puzzled by the shape of the latest Intel 22nm tri-gate (or try-gate?) transistors, revealed in a recent Chipworks blog. It raises the million dollar question as to whether the almost-triangular shape is an ‘on purpose’ design, or simply what bulk FinFET technology is only able to achieve in terms of fin etching?
Today's great deal swings
Scotland's new daily deals website Glasgow’s Great Deal & Edinburgh’s Great Deal have become massive Facebook hits, with a five times more growth in the number of Facebook likes than their direct competitors.
Albagaia and the Angels
Visitors to the Albagaia Ltd website will find that Albagaia has acquired Hydrosense's pioneering legionella testing kit and inventor Dr Neil Polwart, who joins as chief operating officer will assist in developing new mainstream applications for the Albagaia patented technology.
Broadband: speed patches
As Glasgow fails to become one of the UK's top ten 150,000 plus dwellings cities to benefiting from superfast broadband, BT admits it cannot deliver super-fast broadband service to everyone in the rural locations that won in its Race to Infinity competition. Seems that broadband is a still a very patchwork quilt.
Airports change owners
London's City and Gatwick airports owner, Global Infrastructure Partners (GPI) is buying Ferrovial-owned BAA's Edinburgh airport for £807m and becomes the lead British airport operator. Meantime Scotland's largest commercial airfield, Prestwick, purchased in 1998 by Stagecoach Group for £41m, sold January 2001 for £33.4m to New Zealand Infratil is also up for sale, together with Manston Airport, Kent.
Inchinnan: biotech cluster growth
The Scottish biotech facility of US Life Technologies, has secured a $20m (£12.4m) investment to expand manufacturing at Inchinnan just as Queen's Award winner, Peak Scientific breaks ground on its Inchinnan facility expansion.
Western Scotland exhibits
Both Glasgow and Auchindrain are exhibiting currently with a very different approach.
Iomart awarded
The step up, football kit for kids crowd, Iomart, one of Scotland’s smaller listed companies 'deserved recognition' and the Glasgow based company, founded by CEO Angus McSween took the Scottish PLC of the Year award as well as the AIM /MID sized cap PLC of the year.
Not such an ill wind perhaps
Blaming deteriorating confidence in the offshore wind market for its decision, Korean company Doosan is to pull out of a year old plan for a £170m excellence research centre and turbine factory in Renfrew and had informed the Scottish government and its customers four months ago.
ARCHIE for Scotland's industry
University of Strathclyde has installed and advanced computer at the core of its new £1.6m regional Supercomputing Centre, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), to help academics further research and support business and industry through the next generation product design and development.
From C.difficile to MRSA
Glasgow based MGB Biopharma developing a new class of antibiotic called DNA Minor Groove Binders, has published the results of activity of its most advanced drug MGB-BP3 against Gram positive bacteria, including MRSA and vancomycin resistant enterococci.
Ukube-1: 4 payloads
The UK Space Agency's pilot programme has narrowed down from a total of 20 proposals to four payloads to fly on Ukube-1 from UK industry and academia.
Y Generation: BYOD & be flexible
Scottish Council for Development and Industry in partnership with Cisco is to hold an 8.15am breakfast at the Hilton in Glasgow on Wednesday 28 March, where Generation Y will be in the same time frame as the Ides of March. The message will be how to avoid missing a generation of talent for business.
Iomart in win:win: Cloud in scale-out
As iomart expects to post earnings at not less than £11m underlying pre-tax profit of £6.7m for the year to March 31, up from last year's £3.6m, it also celebrates a manger selected as Olympic torchbearer. Backdrop EU research highlights that the potential efficiency of scaleout processors is considerable against conventional and emerging data centre processors.
Two livewires for Brodies LLP
Brodies LLP, the Edinburgh HQ law firm, with offices in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Brussels strengthens its leading specialist litigation & dispute resolution & technology teams by appointing two senior contentious lawyers, Gill Grassie (partner) and Robert Buchan (partner) are to join from Maclay Murray & Spens, where they built a formidable reputation for expertise in handling often complex IP disputes. Buchan starts at Brodies this week, Grassie joins in the summer.
Clouds and their branding
On Tuesday, customers of Lumison (one time EdNET) DediPower and Blue Square Data acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital in 2010, now known as Pulsant is to celebrate the brand launch holding an event at the Balmoral, Edinburgh (Thursday is at OXO Tower, London). Over in Glasgow, Iomart Group take a different branding route securing Scotland football stars Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic) and Emma Fernon (Glasgow City ladies FC) to kick off the Host Your Kit campaign to give away 30 football kits to boys' and girls' teams across Britain, who for various reasons cannot afford their own or desperately need a new one.
Glasgow-Edinburgh trains trial Wi-Fi
Bob Collier, CEO of Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce calls on the Scottish Government to include Aberdeen in the pilot scheme testing WiFi connection on railway services as does Microsoft's regional director, Scotland & Wales, Derrick McCourt.
Strathclyde University ORE Catapult Centre
The first Catapult, in high value manufacturing, opened in October 2011, less than a year after PM David Cameron announced the £200m+ technology and innovation centre programme. Two more Catapults, in cell therapy and offshore renewable energy are on schedule to open by summer 2012. Catapults in Space Applications, and Connected Digital Economy, both announced January 2012 and due to open Autumn 2012, brings total of Catapults announced so far to five.
Statistical Variability: software rules CMOS
Gold Standard Simulations CEO Professor Asen Asenov is to deliver the keynote talk on variability in emerging CMOS technologies at the March VAMM workshop, part of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference inDresden, Germany . The Workshop is on Variability modelling and mitigation techniques in current and future technologies (VAMM) vital for semiconductor development.
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