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PA's Cambridge Technology Centre houses over 250 class-leading scientists, engineers and technologists. Our technology and product development capabilities range from front-end applied science, concept creation and design, to hands-on product engineering, system integration, scale-up and manufacture.

PA Consulting challenges young innovators: save the planet in annual Raspberry Pi competition

PA Consulting Group has launched its sixth annual Raspberry Pi challenge to inspire the innovators of the future. This year PA is asking pupils from schools and colleges to invent something that will help save the planet using a Raspberry Pi – a credit-card-size yet highly capable computer.

11 October 2017Read in full

Mergers make waves - PA Consulting Group's Gerry Hawkins features in Electronics Weekly

A wave of mergers and acquisitions is sweeping through the semiconductor industry, with deals reaching to the tens of billions of dollars now seemingly common-place.

17 May 2017Read in full

Schools take part in national coding competition to help improve lives

The UK’s brightest innovators from schools across the country competed in the final of PA Consulting Group’s fifth annual coding competition recently. Nine teams of finalists presented their inventions to an expert judging panel including Emma Payne, head of IT delivery, John Lewis and Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC technology correspondent.

8 May 2017Read in full

Brexit may threaten car makers’ competitiveness

The news that Toyota is to invest £240 million in upgrading its UK factory is a strong signal that the company sees the UK as part of its long-term future.

24 April 2017Read in full

PA Consulting Group joins the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Circular Economy 100 Programme

PA Consulting Group, the global consulting, technology and innovation firm, has recently become a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy 100 (CE100) programme. The CE100 brings together corporates, governments, cities, academic institutions, emerging innovators and affiliates to realise their circular economy ambitions faster.

21 April 2017Read in full

PA Consulting Group launches latest global innovation survey

PA Consulting Group's new innovation report reveals the insights from its research with over 800 senior executives, combined with opinion formed through its work. The report summarises what successful organisations – ‘innovation leaders’ – are doing right and offers pragmatic and actionable insights for innovation success.

20 April 2017Read in full

OpenCL: transforming the industry or another tool in the toolbox?

The use of the Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) has been heralded as an easier method to harness the power of devices which provide hardware acceleration, for use in heterogeneous computing applications. Chris May, an expert in electronics hardware and FPGA design at PA Consulting, discusses the issues.

10 January 2017Read in full

PA Consulting Group’s fifth annual Raspberry Pi competition is now open for entries!

PA has launched its fifth annual Raspberry Pi challenge to inspire the innovators of the future. This year PA is asking pupils from schools and colleges to invent under the theme of ‘Innovation for All’, using a Raspberry Pi.

28 October 2016Read in full

Land Rover BAR defend Portsmouth title to lead World Series

Under glowering skies but in perfect racing conditions, Land Rover BAR has defended its America's Cup World Series Portsmouth title. The victory – in front of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – took the team into an overall series lead going into the final two events of the season.

12 August 2016Read in full

Work experience project sees Cambridge school students pitch and design life-saving app

Six 15 and 16 year-olds from schools across the region spent two weeks working with scientists and engineers at PA Consulting Group's Cambridge Technology Centre in Melbourn.

29 July 2016Read in full