BritChips
Episodes
BritChips Newsflash: weeteq's first silicon hits the decks
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this 11-minute BritChips Newsflash, Martin returns to the BritChips studio to explain the significance of this milestone, the transition from FPGA ...
BritChips podcast: Our educational system isn't creating entrepreneurs!
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final BritChips podcast for 2025 is both special and different.It’s special is because my guest is a tech pioneer who would get my vote were the...
BritChips podcast Extra Slice - Apitronix
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ed French reckons that Apitronix has developed the world’s most powerful real-time processor with 220 RISC-V cores. But that’s a mere fraction of ...
BritChips podcast: Apitronix - Scaling to 220
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ed French reckons that Apitronix has developed the world’s most powerful real-time processor - one with with 220 RISC-V cores. But that’s a mere f...
BritChips podcast: Blueshift Memory - Breaking down the wall
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you are not in the semiconductor industry, you may think that the ‘von Neumann bottleneck’ has something to do with the shape of a German beer ...
BritChips Podcast: Quantopticon - Crossing the Chasm
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Accelerators and incubators get you to a certain level. But you’re down here and you need to get up there, and you have to cross this chasm in be...
BritChips podcast Extra Slice
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So I channelled the spirit of the late, great ‘Mrs Merton’ in her interview with the lovely Debbie McGee, to ask UK semiconductor industry veteran...
BritChips podcast: Something's got to change!
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly 30 years in the UK semiconductor industry, Haydn Povey decided to retire. Two days later he cofounded his second cybersecurity semiconduc...
BritChips Newsflash: Chipletti announces landmark project with Imec
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UK semiconductor startup Chipletti has just announced that they had been awarded a grant from Innovate UK for a new collaborative project with Imec, o...
BritChips Podcast Extra Slice - Finchetto
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this two-minute video clip, Mark expounds on funding your startup, the role of incubators and accelerators, what makes a good founder, and working ...
BritChips Podcast: Finchetto - Switching Light with Light
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Rushworth was introduced to PhD research scientist Mike Pearcey through a family connection. As Mark describes it, ‘Mike had an idea - a really...
BritChips podcast: Singular Photonics - New Vision for SPADs
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Analog design engineer Aravind Venugopolan had been trying hard to commercialise his post-doctoral research at Edinburgh University where he was devel...
BritChips podcast: Weeteq - Honing the Edge on Power Electronics
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I probably would have appreciated knowing that a little bit earlier in the journey”.What Martin MacDonald would have appreciated knowing a little...
BritChips podcast: Tanya Mangoma - Child of ChipStart
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When I asked Tanya Mangoma, founder and CEO of in-memory computing startup, HyperCIM, what she would do differently if she had the chance to do it all...
BritChips Newsflash podcast
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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BritChips podcast: What Josh Silverstone learned from Babbage
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There can be fewer galling experiences for a tech entrepreneur than when your customers tell you that your technology is so key to their products that...
BritChips podcast: Shining a light on Wave Photonics
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you are the founder of a startup that has created a software platform to design photonic chips.So how do you check it does the job?Obviously, ...
BritChips podcast: Steinn's Story
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steinn Gustafsson started his tech industry career in Norway back in 1992 as a part-time Technical Sales Engineer with Hewlett-Packard, before moving ...
BritChips podcast: MintNeuro's Fantastic Voyage
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I don't know how many of you are old enough to remember the 1960s science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage.In the movie, a submarine and its crew are sh...
BritChips podcast: Taking AI Literally
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mikhail Lvovich Tsetlin was the visionary Soviet mathematician whose pioneering work married machine learning algorithms with game theory to create lo...
BritChips podcast: Arm gives a leg up to startups
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since I launched the BritChips podcast series back in April, I've had a fair few conversations with founders and leaders of UK semiconductor startups....
BritChips podcast: Shining a new light on spectral imaging
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me say from the outset that 'spectral imaging' has nothing to do with photographing ghosts.It's about capturing light across a wider range of wave...
BritChips podcast: Stan the Man
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is an English proverb attributed to 14th century poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer that reads, 'Mighty oaks from little acorns grow'.Here's my ve...
BritChips podcast: Cool Hand Rob - The Kelvin Quantum Story
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computers like it cold. Very cold indeed. We're talking about temperatures close to absolute zero (-273.15°C)However, off-the-shelf electroni...
BritChips podcast: EnSilica - Brazil by Design
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If anyone should be known as the godfather of the Brazilian semiconductor industry, my vote would go to Brazil-born tech industry veteran Julio Leão ...
BritChips podcast: Chipletti's Big Stack
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you squeeze a quart into a pint pot?This is one of the fundamental problems facing semiconductor designers when trying to squeeze more circuits...
BritChips podcast: Microchips, bacteria and the price of fish
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can you tell if the seemingly crystal-clear waters of a fish farm are not hiding traces of chemicals that could harm marine life?University of Edi...
BritChips podcast: From PowerPoint to Prototype
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“What we tell our startups is they need to start fast and stay fast – time is not their friend.”This is the sage advice that Sean Redmond gives ...
BritChips podcast: The Age of Aquarius
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Timings are approximate:00:00 - Intro00:35 - How KuasaSemi became a family affair04:52 - Aquarius10:55 - KuasaSemi's relationship with SMD18:09 - Vali...
BritChips podcast: Mahmoud Wagih, Founder, RX Watt
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mahmoud Wagih was born in Egypt, freelanced as a graphic designer, studied in Malaysia, worked for ARM, had a research fellowship at Southampton Unive...
BritChips podcast: Jonathan Reeves, CEO CSignum
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a handy mantra for any tech startup: “Let’s finish what we started”.This was the advice Jonathan Reeves gave to the engineering team af...
BritChips podcast: Noel McKenna, CEO Neuranics
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning tech industry analyst Anthony Miller chats with international electronics industry executive Noel McKenna about his experiences joining ...
Welcome to BritChips!
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to my new podcast series BritChips - conversations with movers and shakers in the UK semiconductor startup scene.The first is with Noel McKenn...