Luke James

About:

Luke James graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a bachelor's degree in law in 2016, and he is currently pursuing a master's degree in law at the University of York. He's a freelance writer who specialises in law, cybersecurity, and compliance. Luke currently resides in the UK.

Articles

Intel’s 10nm Chips Are Finally Here — Amid Some Criticism

Early coverage of Intel's first processors made in its delayed 10nm node have been mixed, with many saying that the improvements are modest. Have they been worth the wait?

3 months ago
News

What Makes the Huawei U.S. Ban Harmful to Tech Firms

Policy surrounding technology should be based on objective standards and research rather than haphazard decisions influenced by the geopolitical climate.

3 months ago
News

Attracting and Retaining Overseas Engineers is Difficult for the UK

The UK engineering sector relies on skilled overseas talent. Despite this, it is still as unclear as ever what will happen post-Brexit. It is time for the UK government to take steps to ensure that the UK remains an attractive place for not only overseas engineering talent, but the world's best and brightest talent across all industries and disciplines.

3 months ago
News

Omron Opens New Application Centre in Hoofddorp Netherlands

Omron Electronic Components, manufacturer of electronic components for industries from home appliances to healthcare, has launched its new European application center as the next step in the company's Customer Value Generation Strategy.

3 months ago
News

UK Ready to Take Leading Role in Autonomous Vehicle Road Mapping

A newly released report has claimed that the UK could take a leading role in autonomous mapping, with several UK-based firms heading up mapping projects and the creation of data and regulatory systems.

3 months ago
News

Graphene to Be Trialled on England’s Roads in a World First

The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) and Highways England have partnered up to explore the incorporation of graphene into England's road surfaces and the benefits that this could deliver for road users.

about 4 months ago
News

NXP and Momenta Partner Up to Design DMS Applications That Monitor Driver Alertness

The system will enable vehicles to monitor their drivers' alertness in a move that brings the automobile industry one step closer to the next level of autonomy.

4 months ago
News

U.S. Tech Giants Reportedly Moving Hardware Production Out of China

Amidst the ongoing 'trade war' between the U.S. and China, global technology heavyweights are reportedly to move substantial amounts of their production capacity out of China.

4 months ago
News

Britain’s First Hydrogen-powered Train Set to be Tested on Mainline Railways

BCRRE, Birmingham University's Centre for Railway Research and Education, in partnership with Porterbrook, announced last week that the UK's very first hydrogen train will soon be tested on the railway following a successful proof of concept.

4 months ago
News

TSMC and Purdue University Partner on Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem

On Friday 14th June, Purdue University and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced their plans to establish a Center for Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem to ensure a secure supply of chips from foundry to system.

4 months ago
News

London Tech Week Inspires IoT and AI Development Discussions from International Industry Leaders

Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May launched the sixth annual London Tech Week earlier this month. Operated by Informa Tech, London Tech Week brings together some of the biggest tech names from around the world.

5 months ago
News

Intel Says that EUV is Ready but Problematic for Engineers

In a recent interview, Brett Turkot, director of EUV at Intel, went on record to say that their EUV lithography is ready for introduction, however, engineers will still face several challenges in using the system to make these leading chips at a high volume.

5 months ago
News

TDK and Boréas Collaborate on Smart Haptic Solutions

A recent deal between TDK and Boréas aims to accelerate the adoption of piezoelectric haptic solutions in a broad range of technological applications, primarily consumer electronic devices.

5 months ago
News

Arm is the Latest European Company to Suspend Dealings with Huawei Following U.S. Trade Ban

According to an internal memo that has been seen by the UK's BBC, Arm has reportedly become the latest company to halt relations with Huawei amid the U.S. government's move to impose trade sanctions last week.

5 months ago
News

Trump Declares National Emergency to Protect U.S. IT Infrastructure from Foreign Adversaries

On Wednesday 15th, President Trump signed Executive Order 109 (13873), Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain, and declared a national emergency.

about 6 months ago
News

Microsoft Accelerates IoT Efforts with Express Logic Acquisition

In a press release on April 18th, Microsoft announced its acquisition of California-based firm Express Logic, a provider of real-time operating systems for IoT and industrial embedded devices.

about 6 months ago
News

British Company Mettis Aerospace Set to Become the World’s First Wi-Fi 6-enabled ‘Smart Factory’

Using Wi-Fi 6, an aerospace plant in the UK is set to become the world's first 'smart factory' when trials begin in Q3/4 2019. Following the deployment of this major technological leap forward in the IoT, the manufacturing industry could benefit heavily.

6 months ago
News

Notre Dame was a Tragic Example of the Importance of Foresight in Electrical Engineering

Last week's tragic fire at Notre Dame was a painful wake-up call. Electrical engineering doesn't just end when a system has been designed for its intended deployment; engineers should look ahead at the issues that may occur in time.

6 months ago
News

Samsung Completes 5nm EUV Development, Ready for Customer Sampling

Samsung has just announced the successful development of its 5nm EUV nodes with a 20 per cent lower power consumption and increased efficiency.

about 7 months ago
News

Medical Devices are Leading the IoT Revolution, Not Consumer Ones

The IoT has opened the doors to endless opportunities within healthcare and medicine. When your ordinary, run of the mill medical devices are supplemented with connectivity and added to the IoT, they can collect invaluable information, data, and provide healthcare professionals with greater insight into the patient.

about 7 months ago
Opinion

DRAM Market Expected to Further Decline This Quarter

As global prices of DRAM fell by nearly 30 per cent in Q1 2019, the plummeting chip prices are expected to continue as contracts between PC manufacturers and DRAM suppliers continue to get shorter and cheaper.

7 months ago
News

Boeing 737 MAX: The Electrical Flight System Identified as a Potential Culprit

Within five months of one another, two Boeing 737 MAX jets crashed, none of the passengers survived. Preliminary black box data has identified an electrical flight system as the possible culprit, but what exactly happened?

7 months ago
News

Things European Tech Start-ups Do Better Than U.S. Ones

Despite hundreds of years' worth of cultural exchange, the differences between the European and U.S. start-up ecosystems are staggering. While the U.S. has long since been understood to be the ideal place to launch a start-up, there are several things that European tech start-ups do better than their U.S. counterparts.

7 months ago
Opinion

AI and Medtech: Where Are We Headed?

Technology is rapidly evolving and changing the nature of our world. Certain ideas and concepts that would have been written off as sci-fi fantasy nonsense a couple of decades ago—i.e. artificial intelligence—are becoming more and more common in our digital world.

7 months ago
Opinion

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Craft Launches Successfully and Autonomously Docks Itself with the ISS in a World First

How do you achieve the best of both worlds when it comes to engineering training: teaching engineers how to design and manufacture as realistically as possible—without the risk of causing any kind of damages? Many will know the answer already: you train them through VR simulations; but the issue is that traditional VR starts and ends at the audio-visual user experience...

7 months ago
News

Barriers to IoT Medical Devices

The question of whether the IoT is revolutionising healthcare has long since been answered—IoT medical devices are completely changing the industry as we know it. Every new opportunity faces barriers and resistance, though, and IoT medical devices aren't immune from these.

7 months ago
Opinion

Why Has Europe Failed to Match the Tech Booms in the U.S. and Asia?

Although 2018 was a brilliant year for the European tech ecosystem thanks to a large increase in investments from the U.S. and Asia, it is still failing to come close to matching, never mind dominating, the likes of Silicon Valley when it comes to birthing and growing tech behemoths—the U.S. alone accounts for nearly half of all new billion-dollar firms.

7 months ago
Opinion

Does the Importance of IoT Outweigh Its Risks to Security?

It is hard to ignore the many benefits that the IoT brings with it. Securing IoT devices, however, is posing a challenge—indeed, it is perhaps one of today's greatest challenges—for manufacturers.

7 months ago
Opinion

Should Western Nations be Worried About Huawei?

As a handful of nations move to ban Huawei equipment from their emerging 5G networks, should others pay attention and follow suit?

7 months ago
Opinion

Could the IoT Alleviate Post-Brexit Supply Chain Problems?

With Brexit looming, it is time to consider how the IoT could alleviate supply chain problems and provide new opportunities for British businesses.

about 8 months ago
Opinion

European Tech Regulations Could Strangle Innovation

We live in an era of novel and unprecedented innovation. It is regulation and government policy that will have the biggest impact on the future of technology, particularly in Europe.

8 months ago
Opinion

Why Augmented Intelligence is Throwing a Spanner in the Works of European Copyright Legislation

It is often said that, in general, some laws as they stand today are not fit for purpose in their application to the digital world. One area where this is truer than any other is intellectual property—the digital age has completely changed the rules on intellectual property and the antiquated laws and systems of yesterday are no longer feasible.

8 months ago
Opinion

Tomorrow’s Engineering Jobs: What’s On the Horizon?

With so much talk about which jobs may not exist in a few years’ time, let’s take a moment to consider what new engineering disciplines or specialisms may come about alongside further technological developments.

8 months ago
Research

Why Silicon Valley Isn’t Necessarily the Future of Electronics

Silicon Valley has always been the tech world's answer for Hollywood. Whilst it is still the home of big tech companies, exciting innovations, new start-ups, and where a lot of the money is, the seeds of tech's future are being sown in other cities across the globe—from Barcelona to London and beyond, let's look at how the rest of the world is catching up.

8 months ago
Opinion

Hardware Prepped to Meet Europe’s 5G Implementation

5G has been hailed as tech's next big leap forward and, if you pay attention to all the noise and claims from telecoms companies, you certainly wouldn't be ridiculed for believing so. Despite everything that is being said, is Europe ready for 5G's implementation?

8 months ago
Product Highlights

Anybody Who Says We Have True AI Is Selling Something

Although the entire field of AI goes back quite a long way—its 'date of birth' is even disputed and up for debate—there is one thing that we know is true. Machine learning has grown rapidly over the course of the last decade. Today, technologies using it are cropping up everywhere.

10 months ago
Opinion

Tesla Is a Tech Company Masquerading as a Car Maker, and Others Should Follow Suit

While most may think of Tesla as another car manufacturer, the thriving company is actually much more than that. Other businesses in the technology sector have a lot to learn from Tesla's wins.

10 months ago
Opinion

No, AI Is Not Going to ‘Steal’ Your Job

While many people believe the advent of artificial intelligence is going to steal away all hard-working professionals' jobs, that is actually the opposite of the truth. AI enhances engineering and helps engineers streamline and perfect their designs more than ever before.

11 months ago
Opinion

There’s 1 Big Challenge Stopping Graphene’s Utilization in Computing

Graphene has been a bleeding-edge topic in the technology industry for years, but just how will it be used in electrical engineering? Does is have a place in the future of computing components?

11 months ago
Opinion

4 Robust Circuit Boards for Engineers Who Want Serious FPGA Power

FPGAs, or field programmable gate arrays, are incredibly useful pieces of technology that play an important role in many designs. Here are four particularly great use cases where circuit boards make good use of their FPGA components.

11 months ago
Product Highlights

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