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It was 7 September 1960 that the first issue of Electronics Weekly hit the desks of electronics engineers and managers in the UK. In the UK, Harold Macmillian was Prime Minister, leading a conservative government; Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower was the US president but only for the next couple of months. He and his vice-president Richard Nixon were to lose ...

When Electronics Weekly was launched on 7 September 1960, it became the UK’s first newspaper dedicated exclusively to electronics. Sixty-five years later, our editors have revisited that very first issue to share the stories that caught their attention and to reflect on how far the industry, and this magazine itself, have come. You can read the very first issue of ...

On 7 September 1960, the very first issue of Electronics Weekly rolled off the presses in black and white. Sixty-five years later, the magazine is published in full colour, with a successful website, digital editions, newsletters, podcasts and EW-TV. Here’s a look back at how both Electronics Weekly and the wider industry have changed since that very first issue. See ...

The second episode has dropped! We're talking the new Electronics Weekly CHIIPS podcast, and insights from Valerie Lynch and Nicola Thorn.

Tune into this one: Electronics Weekly is excited to launch it's own podcast, CHIIPS, brought to you by our editor Caroline Hayes.

Steve Bush explores the treasures in the pages of the first edition of Electronics Weekly, tracking down companies still trading. I have enjoyed having the chance to leaf through a copy, possibly the only paper copy, of the very first issue of Electronics Weekly. My mission: to see how electronic products and components have changed over 60 years. And what ...

Caroline Hayes talks to some hardware and software engineers about their career paths and experiences in technology. One of the longest established semiconductor companies is Analog Devices. It was founded in 1965, in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA and is now a multi-national semiconductor company. JoAnn Close is a Fellow at the company and gained her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree at ...

Caroline Hayes asked Chi Onwurah, former head of telecoms technology at Ofcom, what can be done to attract girls to STEM. Chi Onwurah was elected as the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central in 2010 and is a board member of the AFBE (Association for Black and Ethnic Minority Engineers). She is the shadow minister for Digital, Science and Technology. ...

Alun Williams tries to make sense of the Babel of programming languages that have emerged in the past 60 years and more. What is the common noun for programming languages? A babel, surely. Collectively, it’s a ‘Tower of Babel’ built over more than 60 years. In the beginning – we’re actually in the late 1940s, early 1950s – scientists had ...