Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Alphabet subsidiary Verily Life Sciences (was Google Life Sciences) are forming a bioelectronics research, development and commercialise firm at GSK’s HQ in Stevenage (right). They will invest up to £540m over seven years, subject to completion of various milestones. To be called Galvani Bioelectronics, and to be headquartered in at an existing GSK …

Read full article: Google, GSK start £500m bioelectronic firm in UK

VC firms tend to project a po-faced public image – possibly to enhance an aura of infallibility – so it’s refreshing to see VCs take the piss out of themselves. Bessemer Venture Partners, one of America’s oldest VC firms, tells Business Insider the reasons it rejected some of the biggest funding opportunities of the last …

Read full article: The VC Firm Which Laughs At Itself

The organisers of this year’s National Coding Week are asking for help. “With less than 50 days to go, organisers are calling on people in the technology industry and beyond to get involved with the initiative once again to help prove that anyone, regardless of age or gender, can learn to code,” said the team. The …

Read full article: Can you help with National Coding Week?

FOLLOWING the recent successful visit to Moscow by a 12-man delegation representing seven leading British manufacturers, another delegation—including, it is hoped, representatives of the electronics industry—is to visit Russia in May. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 11th 1961 (it was a story which was to have very …

Read full article: Greville Wynne Arranges Russky Trips

A most extraordinary chap comes in today dressed in a t-shirt, cargo shorts and sneakers, Ed tells his diary, the civil servants looked most put out. I made a big fuss of him to show the civil servants that I’m a modern man, a man of the people (though a Baron) and someone (unlike them) …

Read full article: Ed Meets An Algorithm Guy

Michigan A.G. Bill Schuette issued the charges this morning in district court, bringing the total charged in the crisis to nine.

Infineon has volume availability of thyristor/diode modules in solder bond technology with a 50 mm module and plans to launch additional module types with blocking voltages of 1800 V and 2200 V in 2017. Solder bond modules are for applications where the high robustness of pressure contact technology is not necessarily a must. Typical applications …

Read full article: Infineon launches 50mm solder bond thyristor/diode modules

Licensing or products? This has been a dilemma for donkeys years in the semiconductor industry and Qualcomm is the most visible proponent of riding both horses today. 40 years ago it was RCA, King of the TV industry, which licensed TV technology to Japan and semiconductor process technology to Taiwan. Licensing to Japan in the …

Read full article: Licensing vs Productising

ST has acquired ams’ NFC and RFID assets and Which relate related ST’s secure microcontroller solutions for $77.8 million. Approximately 50 technical experts from ams have been transferred to ST. “Security and NFC connectivity are key prerequisites for the broad rollout of mobile and IoT devices anticipated in the coming years. This acquisition builds on …

Read full article: ST buys ams’ NFC and RFID assets

Arrow and Avnet, the behemoths of the distribution channel have a problem. How do they get to design engineers at the genesis of their projects? How do they get ahead in demand creation? They are taking very different routes right now. Arrow has chosen to purchase electronics publications and websites, most recently EETimes in the …

Read full article: Why Avnet wants to buy Premier Farnell