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Soitec buys nano Altatech
Silicon on insulator Soitec has acquired nano production systems producer Altatech Semiconductor S.A based at Montbonnot Saint Martin near Grenoble. The final purchase price of €15m was financed partly in cash and partly using Soitec stock, purchased by BNP Paribas Exane on the market under the share buy-back program approved by the shareholders.
PRACE grows membership
PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012.
Software to exploit multicore
Why must a programmer care for the hardware architecture when writing embedded applications for multi-core? At HiPEAC 2012, Professors Nikolaos Voros and Jürgen Becker explain how the ALMA Consortium comprising French, Greek, Netherlands and German based academic and business organisation aim to turn 'must' into 'may'.
£11.5m for aerospace & marine energy
Aerospace and marine energy are attracting more than £11.5m investment from UK government organisations, led by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The slant for aerospace is solving high risk challenges, while the angle in marine energy is the nitty, gritty of array technologies.
Sixth Sense – Advanced Sensor Technology
Sensing for security; sensitive measurements in extreme environments; from data to information; and biomedical sensing are among the topics covered at Heriot-Watt University's 2nd annual Industry Day welcoming the views of those working in this sector, and those who wish to discuss the important issues currently facing the industry.
Visualising slow bio processes
Pepric, a spin-off from Belgium research organisation imec, has successfully closed a €1.4m capital round. Pepric develops scanner systems for direct visualisation of magnetic labels and commercialises equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time.
Girls lock-up quantum security
Quantum computers, besides offering substantial computational speedups, are also expected to preserve the privacy of a computation.
Smart meters: not a smart move
Margaret Hodge the Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts notes that "The idea of smart electricity and gas meters is a good one, but the programme to install 53m of them in all homes and small businesses in the country by 2019, at an estimated cost of £11.7 billion, is both challenging and subject to significant uncertainty.
Cloud growth forecast as steady
The rising use of online storage and infrastructure systems to support services like Apple Inc.’s iCloud, cloud servers will enjoy robust prospects in 2012 and then move on to become the fastest-growing segment of the server industry within three years. Shipments of cloud servers are projected to reach 875,000 units in 2012, up a notable 35% from 647,000 in 2011 and nearly double the 460,000 in 2010 in IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms report
Ofcom proposal extends 4G coverage
Ofcom has set out a number of new proposals for making 4G mobile spectrum available in the UK. This includes introducing new measures expected to extend coverage to at least 98%[of the UK population and revised plans to promote competition.
Atoms up work
IBM Research has successfully demonstrated the ability to store information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms and by beginning at the smallest unit of data storage, the atom, researcher demonstrate magnetic storage at least 100 times denser than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips.
Pervasive TPVM coming
Canada's interactive entertainment strengths, with a host of other applications, take a step forward with a new technology Temporal PsychoVisual Modulation (TPVM) developed by Professor Xiaolin Wu and Guangtao Zhai at Mc Master University, where a single 3D display screen can show multiple image streams, which the viewers can choose, using a controller and LCD glasses.
Urgent manufacture rethink: Raspberry Pi
The "Raspberry Pi 0001, the ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!" has been auctioned for £3,500 on eBay. But progress in local manufacture of this bright-light UK educational device, throws up a glaring spanner for UK manufacture. Importing a complete device has no tax. Import components to manufacture the devices locally will be taxed.
Liberating ICT for schools
Hot on the heels of Raspberry Pi, the UK Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) curriculum is to be scrapped says education secretary Michael Gove, as the UK will introduce new courses of study in computers, with the emphasis on science. The development is being hailed wholeheartedly by industry experts. ScotlandIS executive director Polly Purvis welcomes the move by schools scrapping outdated ICT in favour of computing science technology.
RapidSwitch offers Extreme
Maidenhead-based RapidSwitch, part of the Scottish iomart Group and a European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, is offering an HP-branded ‘Extreme’ package for customers who want more processing power from their self-managed servers.
Aberration-Corrected STEM launch
A new facility allowing UK scientists to see the properties of materials more clearly, at the atomic level, has been officially launched at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, to an audience of leading scientists, industrialists and politicians.
2012 interfaces slow on vision
Shawn DuBravac, chief economist of Consumer Electronics Association, the annual Consumer Electronics Show organiser in Las Vegas predicts that gadgets are going to get easier to use. After years of installing new features, because they had them, consumer electronics companies are beginning to prioritise a holistic experience, rather than adding more buttons, says DuBravac, an adjunct professor at George Washington University.
Intel buys into Plessey
Plessey Semiconductors has agreed to a product licensing agreement with Intel Corporation and a share warrant agreement with Intel Capital where Plessey will be licensed to manufacture, sell and support a select number of products in Intel's digital tuner portfolio. The warrant agreement gives Intel an unspecified number of shares in Plessey's holding company.
TEM: hole-free phase plates
Currently both TEM plates design methods require precise (less than one tenth of micrometre) mechanical alignment of the device in the back focal plane of the objective lens, a difficult requirement in practical alignment of the microscope electron optics and prevention of charging the carbon phase plate film when in use
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