The 2020–21 global chip shortage is an ongoing crisis in which the demand for semiconductor chips is greater than the supply, impacting more than 169 industries. It has led to major shortages and queues amongst consumers for video cards, video…
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Milliamp Led Consortia Wins Share of £3M Training Fund
Some exciting news hot off the press !!! We are pleased to announce Milliamp Technologies and a number of other Lancaster electronics businesses have been successful as a consortium in receiving funding from the UK Government’s Fast Track Digital Workforce…
Posted in Company News, Tech News Tagged with: electronics, Fast Track Fund, IPC, Lancaster, training
KiCad gets native Altium import
Often here at Milliamp we are sent PCB design projects from customers wishing to modify their existing designs or continue work on a project that’s part way through completion. When this does happen, sometimes the already completed design work has…
The Things Network Hosts it’s first Virtual Conference
In case you haven’t heard, The Things Network is hosting its first virtual conference starting tomorrow – 16th April – for 2 days !!! The Things Network is a global community driven effort to provide a low/no cost IoT network…
Prioritisation of Covid-19 – Related Projects
With the ongoing need for medical products, equipment and Covid mitigation technology globally in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic, Milliamp Technologies would like to offer any assistance it can to relevant sectors and associated sectors involved in this battle. We…
Posted in Company News, Tech News
ST Launch die integrated STM32WLE5 LoRa SoC
Firstly Happy New Year to all our blog readers !!! We’ve been a bit quiet of late on this blog as we have been snowed under with work however we thought we would talk about a very exciting new development…
Lancaster E-Racing Head to Silverstone
Last week we were invited down to Lancaster University’s (relatively new) Engineering Building by Lancaster E-Racing for the unveiling event of this years Formula Student entry to be raced at Silverstone on the 19-21 July 2019. We would like to with…
Posted in Design News, Lancaster, Tech News Tagged with: Electric Vehicles, Formula Student, Lancaster E-Racing, Lancaster University
Possible F-35 Supply Chain Weakness – Who’s building your kit ???
Here at Milliamp we were slightly surprised the other day when we turned on a TV news channel only to hear the presenter talking about PCB gerber files – not something you hear every day on mainstream media !!! So what…
Posted in Tech News Tagged with: F-35, manufacturing, reverse engineering, secure elements, security
The Things Network get a new Outdoor Gateway !!!
A bit of spring excitement over at Milliamp Technologies – we’ve managed to get our hands on one of the first The Things Outdoor Gateway (TTOG) units in the world !!! The original TTN v1 Gateway was successfully Kickstarted back…
Posted in Tech News, TTN Lancaster Tagged with: Early Adopters, Gateways, IoT, IP67, LoRaWAN, radio, The Things Network, TTOG
Nordic Semiconductor Launch their LTE & NB-IoT Flagship SiP
Today is an exciting day for cellular Internet of Things (IoT) technology development!! Nordic Semiconductor have released their awaited nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) module for LTE-M and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) driven technology solutions, an industry step change in cellular IoT development…
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