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A House of Lords committee investigating civilian drone use in the EU will hear from Government Minister Robert Goodwill on Monday 1 December. The committee is the House of Lords ‘EU sub-committee on the internal market, infrastructure and employment’, and is investigating the use of civilian remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), otherwise known as drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ...

A new initiative, The SME Engagement Programme, aimed at getting SMEs more involved in EU funding , was launched at the European Nanoelectronics Forum 2014 in Cannes today.

Infineon had a sparkling calendar Q3 (its fiscal Q4) with revenue of €1,175 million for a profit of €188 million and a margin of 16%.

If the European semiconductor companies don’t invest in semiconductor production facilities in Europe then the EC will support investment by foreign companies, Khalil Rouhana (pictured), director for components and systems in the EC’s DG CONNECT project, told the European Nanoelectronics Forum 2014 in Cannes this morning.

The kitchen table, the pub and money are the ingredients for getting the European nanoelectronics industry to thrive, Ben Verwaayen, former CEO of BT and Alcatel Lucent, told the European Nanoelectronics Forum 2014 in Cannes this morning.

Micron workers went on strike again yesterday with three quarters of the company’s workers at its Catania site going out on strike.

PCB maker Newbury Electronics has started an electronic design and development division, to be called Newbury Innovation. Newbury Electronics has four levels of business: Making PCBs (>15,000 different designs per year) Make/populate PCBs Design/make/populate PCBs Design electronics, design/make/populate PCBs Last year, the firm designed the complete electronics for applications including: agricultural hydroponics, deep-sea exploration, wild animal tracking, and farm security. ...

NXP is to buy Bluetooth Low Energy IP and engineering assets from the eight year-old Californian fabless company Quintic.

The ugly spat in which Micron Technology planned to sack 419 ex-STMicroelectronics Italian research staff who were transferred to Micron with the Numonyx sale, has resurfaced with strikes planned at three Micron sites.

The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) named Robert Eynon who is studying for an MEng degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering at the University of York as its 2014 Scholar of the Year. Eynon, who is currently completing his second placement with Dialog Semiconductor, has been working on verification projects for Dialog’s mixed-signal ICs where he has contributed to the ...