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Last week’s Budget expected a swifter bounce-back from the pandemic than had previously been expected.

Countdown to BEEAs week ​There are just two more weeks until the winners of this years British Engineering Excellence Awards are announced. The week of March 22-26 will see the winners announced in full. The British Engineering Excellence Awards celebrate the best of design engineering in the UK from 2019-2020 and while this has been an unusual time, and this ceremony reflects that, the organisers have been determined to ensure that excellence was recognised regardl...

Boost for quantum computing In what could be a boost for quantum computing and communication, a team of European scientists have reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat. The solution makes it possible to integrate optical switches and single-photon detectors in a single chip. The European Quantum Flagship project, S2QUIP, is reported to have developed an optical switch that is reconfigured with microscopic mechanical m...

Over the past six years Apple has acquired around 100 companies. At a time when the company is generating a mountain of cash – almost £80bn alone in its first-quarter of 2021 – the signs are that this rate of acquisition is likely to continue.

QLSI project plans 16 qubit chip Alongside European partners, the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS is developing a scalable technology for silicon qubits for quantum computers. The Fraunhofer IPMS is part of the newly launched European project QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon), which aims to develop a 16-qubit chip within four years backed with €14.6 million from the EU. Silicon qubits can manipulated and read out quickly and are...

The pandemic has affected so many aspects of the global economy but none more so than the automotive sector, where the certainties of recent years have given way to intense competition from the consumer electronics space.

The pandemic has affected so many aspects of the global economy but none more so than the automotive sector, where the certainties of recent years have given way to intense competition from the consumer electronics space.

The UK government has announced that it plans to launch a "high-risk" science agency to look for ground-breaking discoveries.

A team of engineers have developed a hydropower system that uses gentle slopes rather than steep dams or mountains to store electricity.

The news that Renesas Electronics is to buy Dialog Semiconductor for $5.9 billion, follows a series of acquisitions by Renesas in recent years.