London’s thriving tech scene is a growing hub for electronics startups, R&D centers, and academic-industry collaboration. With institutions like UCL and Imperial, and a network of design consultancies, the city fosters innovation in wearables, medtech, and embedded systems. Government-backed initiatives and venture capital fuel product development and supply chain innovation. London news reflects the city’s impact on the UK’s role in global electronics manufacturing.
Wayve, the UK driverless car startup, has raised $1.5bn at an $8.6bn valuation to fund its robotaxi roll-out, which starts this year in London. Baillie Gifford, Balderton Capital. the British Business Bank, Eclipse Ventures, Microsoft, Nvidia, Ontario Teachers Pension Fund and Uber provided $1.2bn. Uber will kick in another $300m if certain milestones are met. In 2024 Wayve raised $1.05bn ...
Microelectronics UK 2025 The premier event for the UK microelectronics industry Microelectronics UK 2025 will be taking place on 24–25 September 2025 (Wed-Thurs) at Excel London. Microelectronics UK 2025 will be showcasing cutting-edge innovations, fostering collaboration, expediting domestic and international trade, while highlighting the UK’s leadership in niche areas such as compound semiconductors and semiconductor design. Described as the “The ...
Where the global tech ecosystem intersects with the investment, innovation and talent which call London home. A meeting place for innovators, investors and technology companies – large and small – with over 90 countries represented in 2025.
We're talking Intel laying off 15,000 people, the ChipStart incubator, a super power tunnel in London, and Airbus building two microwave radiometers for CNES...
National Grid has energised its 2.5km 275kV power tunnel between Hurst substation and Crayford, one of the transmission circuits in the 32.5km LPT2 route across south London. “The previous cables between Hurst and Crayford were reaching the end of their operational life, having been commissioned in 1967 and having served London reliably for decades,” according to National Grid, which explained: ...
The International Cyber Expo is next week in London. “Cyber security vendors will rub shoulders with the decision-makers in the sector,” according to the IASME Consortium. “Heads of information security from enterprises, government, critical national infrastructure and public sector organisations will connect in person again to hear about the latest innovations and solve critical cyber security issues.” IASME will be ...
UK tech companies have raised more venture capital funding in the first five months of 2022 than in the whole of 2020. This puts the UK second to the US globally when it comes to startup investment and means that UK startups are outperforming those in China, France and India, when it comes to attracting funding, according to data by ...
The City of London is to get a small cell mobile communication pilot project, offering multi-operator 4G and 5G connectivity at street level. “If the pilot is successful, the ambition is for a City-wide deployment that will deliver faster mobile connectivity speeds across the Square Mile”, according to network service provider Freshwave, which will be working with mobile infrastructure services provider Cornerstone ...
Make a date in your diary if you want to attend this year's Summer Science Exhibition in London: it runs 6 - 10 July 2022.
Crypto Quantique is a London company created to licence technology that provides end-to-end encrypted security for embedded systems. Its products include a hardware root-of-trust, which has already been licenced to a “a big semiconductor company for a high-end MCU”, according to company co-founder and CEO Shahram Mossayebi (pictured). Mossayebi should know about security: he has an MSc in information security and ...
