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Toshiba’s plan to sell off a stake in its chip business to raise cash faces problems. The need arose because of losses in its nuclear business which could be as big as $6 billion and its barring from raising fresh equity funding following its accounting scandal. Toshiba now faces having a negative net worth It …

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Flex Logix will make available EFLX arrays in the TSMC 16FFC process node from 2.5K to 122.5K LUTs

Read full article: Flex Logix signs eFPGA deal with DARPA

Foxconn is considering a plan to set up an OLED manufacturing plant in the US which could employ up to 50,000 people and cost $7 billion.

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Samsung held a two hour press conference this morning to explain that faults in battery design and manufacturing caused the fires in the Note 7. Koh Dong-jin, president of mobile communications at Samsung, told the conference that the original battery, made by Samsung SDI, had electrodes which touched each other causing a short circuit and …

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The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy will publish a green paper on the Government’s ‘modern industrial strategy’.

Read full article: Updated: Government to publish ‘modern industrial strategy’ green paper today

Nearly half of the largest M&A deals in the history of the semiconductor industry were done in 2015-16, reports IC Insights. 2016 saw $98.5 billion of deals done while 2015 saw $103 billion worth of deals.   Since 1999 there have been 27 semiconductor M&A deals worth over $2 billion: Seven in 2015; Five in …

Read full article: Deals Dominate Semiconductors

PanaTeQ introduces a 3U (100 x 160mm) OpenVPX-compatible board with Xilinx 16nm Zynq UltraScale+ SoCs.

Read full article: 3U OpenVPX board offers Zynq UltraScale+ multi-processor SoCs

Gerard Grech, CEO of TechCity sees the Prime Minister’s Modern Industrial Strategy as a “good first step on the way to building an exciting partnership between tech firms and government”. According to Grech, tech and digital sector in this country employs 1.6 million people and is growing at almost three times the rate of the wider economy. “We welcome the …

Read full article: Some way to go in Government’s industrial plans

Check out a new post on the Arduino blog, showing how to build your own Bluetooth Smart thermometer, based on a Genuino 101, a digital temperature sensor and smartphone app.

Read full article: How to build your own Bluetooth Smart thermometer