First bids for Intel Capital’s VC assets are expected next month, reports Bloomberg. It is expected that one buyer will bag up the lot. They are valued at $1 billion. The reason for the sale, it it is being said, is to reduce Intel’s debt of $25 billion which is off-set by cash of $15 …

Roll Up, Roll Up To Bid For Intel’s Investments

Always wanting to be even-handed, we have been searching the electronics industry for someone who has presented an argument for Brexit. Last week, we published the pro-EU arguments from the president of the IET, but I have yet to find someone within the industry presenting the case for a vote for Brexit in June. Surely, …

Brexit: Will industry vote for stability?

A group of enterprising engineering students in Poland have developed an educational robot for children which develops along with his owner. It is the idea of Marcin Joka, Michał Grześ, Krzysztof Dziemiańczuk, Michał Bogucki and Maciej Kopczyński; four students and one academic lecturer from the Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. The robot called Photon won …

Students in Poland teach kids with learning robot

There was once an Intel engineer who quit the company to form a start-up based on a new kind of memory chip. Intel’s writ was delivered to his home in the middle of the night. Undaunted, the KP-backed company raised $50 million (plus another $18 million in an IPO). The engineer built a fab with …

Fable: The Bold Engineer

Infineon has launched a sensor pilot line in Dresden under the EU R&D project IoSense which is part of ECSEL. “With an increasingly networked world, the demand for such sensor solutions will see a dramatic rise,” says Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss. IoSense is is designed to further strengthen Europe in the production of cost-effective sensors …

Infineon launches sensor pilot plant

Google wants to see the Android OS embedded directly into the car and it is working with semiconductor firm Qualcomm to achieve this. The functions of a concept car were demonstrated at Google I/O in California today.  They ran on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 automotive processor. The plan is to have a series of Automotive Development Platforms (ADP) …

Google I/O: Google and Qualcomm demo Android embedded in a car

Rohm has announced a multi-function power chip (PMIC) for NXP’s i.MX 7Solo and i.MX 7Dual processors. Called BD71815GW, it has five low-quiescent current buck regulators, seven LDOs, a JEITA-compliant 1S charger, a fuel gauge with Coulomb Counter, an LED driver and a real-time clock (RTC), alongside extensive monitoring and protection circuits. All possible processor power …

Rohm feeds NXP MCUs with multi-output power chip

Maybe the handset market isn’t as saturated as everyone thinks it is._ Digitimes Research reports that a surge in hand-set IC demand will see Taiwan chip design house revenues grow 6.7% in Q2 over Q1 to $4.35 billion. That’s 14.6% more than in Q2 2015. In March Chinese headset makers saw a pick-up in demand …

Hand-Set Market Not Saturated

We are pleased to announce that the AWS Schema Conversion Tool now supports SSL connections. SSL support is for both source and target engines including PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and any MySQL compatible engine including Amazon’s next generation cloud database, Aurora. This release builds upon the existing conversion rules adding support for conversion of Oracle Synonyms to PostgreSQL schema search paths. 

The Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC) and Qatar Environment and
Energy Research Institute (QEERI) have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to develop two pilot projects that could ‘radically
reduce the cost and energy use’ of desalination.