Somewhat to my surprise, the PM has survived to the Christmas recess and the Westminster swamp smells sweeter today, Ed confides to his diary. The brain-numbing effect of  festivities followed by the sober light of grey January mornings will bring the pols to their senses and they’ll look for a Brexit solution instead of posturing, …

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Not many engineering projects have had a resident scribe attached to them to record how it all happened, but there was one – the building of a computer by Data General. Tracey Kidder described the process in ‘The Soul of a New Machine.’ At the public launch  of the computer, known as ‘Eagle’ during its …

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NTT Communications is to buy a majority stake in the French virtual mobile network company Transatel. Transatel, established in 2000, has deployed a data MVNO network compliant with Embedded SIM (eSIM) technology to address three key market segments: Consumer Electronics, Automotive and Industrial IoT (IIoT). Its SIM 901 platform claims to deliver secure, global cellular connectivity …

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Mobile Semiconductor has announced a 22nm FDX ULP (Ultra Low Power) Memory Compiler. The Memory Compiler offers an Ultra-Low Power mode at 0.65V that is useful to a wide range of wearable and battery powered devices. The 22nm FDX ULP joins their expanding 22nm FDX Memory Compiler family that currently covers a wide range of …

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ROHM claims to have launched the industry’s smallest contactless current sensor, the BM14270MUV-LB. It achieves minimum power loss (no heat generation) in an ultra-compact size, making it ideal for industrial equipment and consumer devices that detect operating conditions via current, including battery-driven drones, solar power systems, and servers in data centers requiring high power. In …

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Foxconn is said to be planning a $9 billion foundry in Zhuhai (pictured). The city of Zhuhai is putting up most of the money. Foxconn, its subsidiary Sharp and the city are expected to form a jv to build and run the fab. Initial products are expected to be 8K TV chip-sets, and imaging and other …

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The inventive Sinclair gene rides again as Sir Clive’s nephew, Grant Sinclair, launches a  build-your-own pocket games machine. Grant’s product is called POCO, standing for Pocket Raspberrry Pi Gaming Kit. It includes a Raspberry Pi motherboard,  a wide-angle camera, loudspeaker, touch screen and control pads. About the size of a smartphone, POCO  allows users to …

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TSMC has advised customers for 8-inch wafers to use multiple sources, reports Digitimes, because demand looks like exceeding supply right through 2019. Last week TSMC said it was looking to build a new 8-inch fab in Tainan. The last time it built an 8-inch fab was 15 years ago The demand is coming from customers …

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5G will turn out to be the slowest roll-out of a new generation of mobile cellular tech in history as operators balk at the cost. Driverless cars on the public roads will still need drivers IoT, renamed ‘cheapo networking’, will get cheaper Brexit will turn out, like Y2K and GDPR, to be a non-event as …

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The company is rapidly building a portfolio of both chip technologies, often for similar purposes, as it drives SSL into new digital applications.