NTK Technical Ceramics has received a supplier of the year award from the C-MAC MicroTechnology.
It is the first company to receive this award which covers the business year to September 2009.
Powerstax has responded to recent sales growth in its power supply business by making three executive appointments.
If you want to buy a British-designed netbook go along to Marks & Spencer.
Building wind farms out at sea creates a problem. How do you get the power generated into the land-based power grid?
The answer is to install the world's longest HVDC power cable.
The government, Gordon Brown's UK government that is, has given a £10m loan to Indian car maker Tata to develop a new hybrid vehicle in the UK.
This is great news for the UK skills base of sustainable energy technologies.
German foundry X-Fab has pushed CMOS operating temperatures up to 175 deg C.
The absolute maximum is specified at 185°C.
An environmentally-friendly approach to manufacturing is flourishing on the south downs of West Sussex.
ACW Technology has been visited by a delegation of six senior government officials from China.
Wilson Process Systems (WPS) is bucking the downturn and has expanded its manufacturing capabilities and added a second production facility.
I read the news that Deepstream Technologies had finally called in the administrators at the behest of some of its creditors with great saddness and some anger.
If there ever was a case for government money being used to rescue a cash-strapped high-tech start-up with much potential, this is it.
The Sinclair QL is 25 years old this week which makes it one of the very first personal computers to hit the market.
Thanks to Clive Akass for this chunk of nostalgia and Clive points out that the QL was launched 12 days before the Apple Mac, with its monochrome mouse-driven graphical interface.
Those clever guys at ARM in Cambridge seem to have come up with another winner with the Cortex-M3 processor core.
Not only are the big name licensees, such as NXP, Toshiba and TI, developing new lower power silicon based on the 32-bit Cortex-M3 core, but the really interesting thing is that the core is also defining a whole new business for a couple of newer companies.
That puts it in the same sentence with 8051 and x86. But with a difference. These comapnies want to use Cortex-M3 to create new types of energy-friendly MCUs and so save the planet in the process.
