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Working closely with NMI (the UK’s trade association for Electronic Systems) and some of the country’s largest car manufacturers and supply chain partners, Plextek is lending its experience to a new consortium - The Automotive Electronic Systems Innovation Network (AESIN) – which aims to help increase the UK’s global competitiveness by stimulating change in the automotive supply chain that enables OEMs to more readily embrace new innovati...

Managed hosting specialist Ultraspeed have announced the appointment of a new Director of Sales and Marketing, who will play an integral role in their growth plans for the next 12 months. Jan McLaren brings with her a wealth of experience from Scottish Telecom, THUS and Cable & Wireless, in a career spanning over 20 years. Her newly created role with Ultraspeed sees her tasked with integrating the departments and driving the marketing and sales ...

Future World Symposium debate determines challenges and technology drivers for automotive sector innovation

Attracting a total of 170 CAD managers and users from across the UK, Autodesk‘s Digital Prototyping Forum 2010 proved a great success. Among the day’s many highlights was a joint presentation by Ortis Deley from Five’s The Gadget Show and Grant Cooper from robot combat events organiser, Robo Challenge. They explained how the programme used Autodesk software to design and manufacture a robot called ‘Satan’s Mutt’ to take part in a batt...

The Americas Region of STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in microcontrollers, today launched the STM32 Design Challenge (www.stm32challenge.com), a contest for the design of innovative microcontroller applications across different industry segments. The three-phase competition, acknowledging the most creative, design-efficient and useful embedded system concepts built around ST’s cutting-edge 32-bit microcontrollers, will run for 6...

STMicroelectronics announced several microcontroller-based activities at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, April 27-29, 2010. The broad range of activities are intended to highlight ST’s comprehensive portfolio of robust 8-bit and high-performance 32-bit ARM-based microcontrollers including the new ultra-low-power EnergyLite™ versions of both families. A range of demonstrations will provide engineers with hands-on experience an...

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced today a historic engine control technology partnership with Freescale Semiconductor and McLaren Electronic Systems to develop and integrate fuel injection systems into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, targeted for the 2012 season.

A revolutionary kart axle unit solution and cylindrical roller engine bearings from SKF, the knowledge engineering company, have helped the international kart team, Chiesa Corse, and driver, Nyck De Vries, win the CIK-FIA KF2 World Cup 2010 at the Circuit Aragonese Zuera, Spain. SKF Racing Unit has been supporting Chiesa Corse for many years and has provided the successful team with bespoke technical kart solutions, specially designed for kart wh...

A UK-based design firm used SolidWorks 3D CAD software to transform an innovative snowboard helmet design into an instant hit among Formula One racing crews looking for light, strong head protection.

This clip is from the NASCAR press conference announcing Freescale Semiconductor and McLaren Electronics as First Official Partners For Fuel Injection Program. Lou Lutostanski, Freescale's Vice President of Sales & Marketing Americas, offers details around Freescale's rich legacy in solutions for automotive electronics.