Cindy Messer, a former deputy director of the Delta Stewardship Council, has been appointed chief deputy director at the California Department of Water Resource 

The University of Toronto and Fujitsu Labs claim to have developed the world’s lowest power referenceless CDR

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In its bid to raise cash by selling off a chunk of its chip business, Toshiba is reportedly preferring the bids of finance companies rather than industry companies.

Read full article: Suitors line up for Toshiba stake

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased 3% in 2016 when compared to 2015 area shipments according to the SEMI.

Read full article: Wafer revenues languish

The prospect of Intel licensing AMD’s GPUs is as unlikely as Intel licensing ARM technology to let Intel’s customers make ARM-based chips in Intel fabs. But that is what happened last August, “Our 10 nm design platform for foundry customers will now offer access to ARM Artisan physical IP, including POP IP, based on the …

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Toshiba launches a transistor array for LED lighting and industrial, high-voltage signal transmitters.

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At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan the winning medals will be made from obsolete electronics – old or discarded devices.

Read full article: Tokyo 2020 gold medals go green, from old gadgets

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the ten best customers for ICs in 2016: $bn Samsung 31.6 Apple 30 Dell 13.3 Lenovo. 12.8 Huawei 9.9 HP 8.5 HP Enterprises 6.2 Sony 6.1 BBK 5.8 LG 5.2  

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Nexperia is NXP’s former Standard Products division which was sold to Chinese financial investors last June.

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Osram Lighting Solutions will be the new business home for Texas lighting services specialist Maneri-Agraz Enterprises, while Legrand acquires a luminaire maker and Nichia announces further patent-infringement actions.