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Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...of the technical manual for Apple's very first computer suggests not circuit boards and CRT monitors, but science, knowledge and inspiration. That's no... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings

Chip-and-PIN crack code released as open source

...method, they did not publish the software they used or details of circuit boards. "I would like this as an open framework for research to... Read more

25 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
LayoutEditor 20120420

LayoutEditor 20120420

...Low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC), printed circuit boards (PCB), GDS Editor thick film technology, thin film technology, .... It has... Read more

20 April, 2012

Report: Apple agrees to environment audit at China plant

...chain after it agreed to subject its partner — a maker of printed circuit boards — to an inspection of the latter's operations in the "next... Read more

16 April, 2012 by Kevin Kwang

Four-strong team builds digital TV revolution

...them, they do everything including case design and prototype production: even the circuit boards are laid out and etched in-house. Dominic also answers queries... Read more

25 March, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
Eagle 6.1.0

Eagle 6.1.0

...Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs). The name EAGLE is an acronym, which stands for Easily... Read more

19 March, 2012

WEEE Directive Being Recast (2012)- What for the UK?

The WEEE directive was ratified into law by the European Union in 2003. Some three years later, the UK adopted the... Read more

30 January, 2012

Raspberry Pi £16 computer project nears lift-off

...of the device. The project published photos of its first populated beta circuit boards on Thursday, having shown off the naked boards earlier in the... Read more

23 December, 2011
DipTrace 2.2.0.9

DipTrace 2.2.0.9

...other PCB layout packages. It can route a single layer and multilayer circuit boards, and there is an option to auto route a single layer... Read more

23 December, 2011

I, Technology: 7 reasons why schools need 3D printers

...a device does require some components that cannot be printed - steel bars, circuit boards and so on - so using the term "self-replicating" is a... Read more

12 October, 2011

Record amount of gold used in electronics in 2010

...gold is mostly used in wire bonding, connecting integrated circuits to printed circuit boards. It is also used in electroplating Read more

19 May, 2011

After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

...have been getting smaller and smaller, moving from separate components placed on circuit boards to being fabricated directly on silicon wafers as part of the... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
LayoutEditor build 20120420

LayoutEditor build 20120420

...Low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC), printed circuit boards (PCB), GDS Editor thick film technology, and thin film technology. It... Read more

20 April, 2012
LayoutEditor (64-bit) build 20120420

LayoutEditor (64-bit) build 20120420

...Low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC), printed circuit boards (PCB), GDS Editor thick film technology, and thin film technology. It... Read more

20 April, 2012
Words Honor Cheat FREE 1.0.5

Words Honor Cheat FREE 1.0.5

...from the soul-sucking world of manufacturing. They used to make sure circuit boards were level by using laser-beams (no sharks) and advanced haml... Read more

3 April, 2012

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