News & Analysis
National Instruments Hosts Virtual Automated Test Summit in Europe
National Instruments is hosting the first online Pan-European Automated Test Summit, which features technical sessions on identifying trends and overcoming new challenges in automated test. The Pan-European Automated Test Summit is a free, full-day event hosted live on the Internet on Nov. 27 at 9am GMT. During the summit, attendees can view keynote presentations, watch technical sessions, participate in live Q&A forums and interact with vendors ...
3M Exhibits Stylish New Designs for Transparent Credit Cards
3M will exhibit a broad range of innovative products and technology for the banking and finance, travel and border security markets on Stand 4K 126 at CARTES & Identification 2007, the world leading event for digital security, smart card and identification technologies and applications.
3M Privacy Filters simplify e-assessment
3M today announced that its screen-mounting computer privacy filters are suitable for use as privacy screens in e-examinations, eliminating the need for partitions or the other security measures specified in section 5.14 of the 2008 Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) standards for conducting e-examinations.
Lambda achieves national recognition for its War on Waste
Lambda UK has won the ‘e-Legacy Contribution to Sustainability Award’ for its ‘War on Waste’ campaign. The award was presented to Maureen Woodger, leader of Lambda UK's recycling team, by Quintin Komaromy, Head of Commercial Marketing at Farnell, during an auspicious ceremony at the Tate Modern on 1st November 2007.
Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity
Toshiba Corporation has announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device. The company has successfully fabricated a MRAM memory cell integrating the new technologies and verified its stable performance. Full details of the new technologies were presented at the 52nd Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference in Tampa, Florida, USA whic...
World’s First Look at 3M’s Next Generation Super Close Projection Products at BETT 2008
3M will use BETT 2008, the international educational information and communications technology (ICT) event, as a platform to preview an innovative range of digital projection products for the first time anywhere in the world. The new products will address projector safety and security issues, as well as the need for a more cost-effective approach to AV equipment in the classroom.
Technologies for the complete photovoltaic production chain on show at Productronica
As electricity costs increase, consumers are increasingly looking for alternatives. In 2005 in Germany alone, solar energy systems with an overall output of 912 megawatts (MW) were installed in roofs and in open areas compared to only 597 MW in the previous year*). This compared to a total of 290 MW installed in Japan and 100 MW in the USA.
TTI is ‘CHARGED’ by KEMET
TTI, Inc has been named KEMET's ‘CHARGED’ European Distributor of the year award for financial year 2007. This completes a ‘Triple Crown’ of Distributor awards in North America, Europe and Asia. This unprecedented recognition has never before been achieved by a KEMET distributor. KEMET places a great deal of value on distributor business, and its annual awards are based on a number of key factors - sales growth, market share, new product ...
NI Extends Multicore to PXI and PXI Express Systems
National Instruments has announced the release of the NI 8352 and NI 8353 high-performance, multicore-based, server-class controllers for use in PXI or PXI Express systems. The NI 8352 and NI 8353 rack-mount controllers can be bundled with the appropriate MXI-Express or MXI-4 remote controllers for remote control of PXI or PXI Express chassis. The controllers offer high computing performance and make it easy to achieve high sustainable I/O bandwi...
NMI honours Ian Burnett
The National Microelectronics institute (NMI), the trade association representing the semiconductor industry in the UK and Ireland, has presented its ‘Contribution to Industry’ award to Ian Burnett. The presentation was made at the NMI’s annual awards dinner held in London, this year attended by more than 300 people.