Plessey announced today the appointment of Maarten Klein as Head Agronomist to provide specialist expertise for Plessey’s horticultural lighting solutions. Klein has specialist expertise in the use of LED lighting for growing commercial crops, developed whilst he was the Research Director at Delphy in Wageningen, Holland. Maarten Klein said, “Having spent some time with the …
Toshiba to introduce nanoimprimt process for NAND
Within the next twelve months Toshiba will start introducing nano-imprint lithography (NIL) into its NAND manufacturing process, reports The Nikkei. The introduction of NIL in volume production in FY 2018 should reduce NAND production costs by 10%. NIL uses a stamp technique to form a layer of circuitry on the wafer. Toshiba has been working …
Top Ten Foundries
Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top ten foundries in 2015 with revenues in $bn: TSMC. 26,566 Globalfoundries 4,673 UMC. 4,561 Samsung 2,607 SMIC 2,229 Powerchip 0.985 TowerJazz 0.961 Fujitsu 0.845 Vanguard 0.736 Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor. 0.651
April IC sales fell 1%
Semiconductor sales fell 1% in April compared to March to $25.8 billion, says the SIA using data collected by WSTS. “Global semiconductor sales decreased marginally in April, continuing a recent trend of market sluggishness driven by soft demand and a range of macroeconomic headwinds,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “despite a cumulative decrease across all …
In praise of Meetup: NanoSatellites, Android and IoT…
I was very pleased to be invited along to a NanoSatellite initiative last month, previewed via the Internet of Things Innovators UK meetup group.
Crowd-funding looks like serious business
Crowd-funding of commercial product development, production and marketing is set to move to a new level and some of the biggest electronics firms in the world are getting hooked, writes Richard Wilson Crowd-funding looks set to become an established way for electronics firms large and small to launch new products on the market. One of …
Toshiba to ship USB 3.0 drives this month
Toshiba is to start shipping USB 3.0 flash memory USB drives at the end of this month. The drives will sell under the TransMemory brand. They transfer content twice as fast as USB 2.0 and are available with capacities of 16GB 32GB and 64GB. All drives are supplied in white and are fully backward compatible …
Raspberry Pi 3 powers Microsoft’s Magic Mirror
The days of leaving messages for your lover on a steamy bathroom mirror are numbered. We’re en route to a world where your emails and texts can reach them figuratively any time, any place, anywhere – even in ‘that’ room. Or that’s what we’re supposed to think, when Microsoft offers us a Magic Mirror, perhaps. Gadget …
Comment: UK needs its own ‘Imec’
Imec held its Technology Forum in Brussels last month. Electronics Weekly’s components editor David Manners attended the event and his detailed reports on the technology ranging from deep sub-micron semiconductor technology to low power radio, IoT security and solar cells are published in this week’s issue of the magazine. Why is Imec important to the UK electronics …
Taiwanese networking companies join the smart lighting race
Edimax and ZyXEL hope to soon connect LEDs to home apps and routers in another example of information technology crossing over the lighting industry.