In 1988, a 19 year-old arrived from India having won a transfer scholarship to Caltech. After going  to Stanford as a grad student he joined Apple. In 1995 he got $300,000 for a start-up having walked out on his VCs when they asked for a 30% stake. Next day the VCs called back and offered …

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A development platform for the Android open source project (AOSP) has been created by Huawei. The ARM-based hardware is part of the Linaro open source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the ARM ecosystem. The HiKey 960 96Boards development platform from Huawei is now listed on the 96Boards website and will become available through global distribution …

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Some of the brightest innovators from UK schools gathered at PA Consulting Group’s annual Raspberry Pi coding competition final in London.

Read full article: PA Consulting Group celebrates annual Raspberry Pi school coding competition

Thermoelectric energy harvesters are available from Leicestershire-based European Thermodynamics. “The Adaptive range has been developed with design and development engineers in mind,” said company engineer Tibor Toro. “The initial products in the range are an excellent addition to energy harvesting research and development, evaluating standalone or even small grid connected strategies. We are looking forward …

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ADI has launched an ADC to meet the spectral efficiency demands of 4G/5G  base-stations. It also meets the reduced run-time targets of multi-standard production instrumentation and provides a detection range and sensitivity suitable for defense electronics. Made on a  28nm CMOS process, the AD9208 delivers  bandwidth and dynamic range to cover the largest number of …

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Sanjay Mehrotra, co-founder and CEO of SanDisk, has been appointed CEO of Micron. “Innovation in memory and storage technology is enabling new products, improved customer experience and growth across multiple markets,” says Mehrotra, “Micron is at the forefront of driving these innovations, and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead such a talented …

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Intel had revenue of $14.8 billion in Q1 for a net profit of $3 billion. PC revenues were $8 billion. Data centre revenues were $4.2 billion. Flash revenues were $866 million The IoT group had revenues of $721 million. The Security Group had revenue of $534 million The FPGA group had revenue of $425 million. …

Read full article: Intel makes Q1 profit of $3bn

Just how far will the new US administration go in stopping  China getting advanced semiconductor technology? That may be decided today at the meeting between Hon Hai’s Chairman and the US President. Hon Hai’s Chairman, Terry Gou, is set on buying Toshiba. If he buys it, Toshiba’s 3D NAND technology will very likely leak to …

Read full article: The Plot Thickens

Last November I was asked by an ST guy who, in my opinion,  would be appointed CEO of ST when Carlo Bozotti’s contract expired in the Spring. To my surprise, when I put my mind to it, I couldn’t think of anyone. So I replied that I thought Bozotti would be re-appointed. Yesterday he was. …

Read full article: Who Would You Appoint As CEO of ST?

AWS Config now supports pre-built and custom rules in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.