The increasing value of the average IC content in cellular handsets and the increasing percentage of smartphones will help drive the cellphone IC market to $94.3 billion in 2019, says IC Insights. Although the cellular handset IC market grew by double digits in 2013 and 2014 it grew only 2% in 2015 and is expected …

Cellular IC market to grow 6.7% CAGR 2015-19

Cypress Semiconductor is reported to be up for sale after Goldman Sachs was retained to look for a buyer. Earlier this year founding CEO T.J Rodgers (pictured) announced he was retiring. It is said Cypress has ‘received takeover interest’ from three private equity firms including Summitview Capital and TPG Capital, Summitview is said to have …

Cypress up for sale

64.3 million PCs were sold in Q2 – 5.2% down from Q2 2015, says Gartner and the seventh consecutive quarterly decline. “All regions except North America experienced a PC shipment decline,” says Gartner’s Mikako Kitagawa, “PC shipments in Latin America are expected to fall below five million units for the second quarter of 2016, which …

Q2 PC sales down 5.2%

Icera was a shining start-up star. “We started off with a passion to be a big European-based chip company, a company which could go public, a company that was sustainable,” said its CEO Stan Boland inn 2006 when the company was three years old, “the biggest and most challenging chip market is wireless. Particularly cellular. …

The Shining Star Which Crashed

The same technology behind the Pokémon Go craze has a future in LED lighting.

Volunteers to monitor threats to water for 15 million people.

Evoqua was selected to support this project with a boiler feedwater make-up system. 

After raising 3.25x its crowdfunding target, FTDI Chip has now announced the full availability of the CleO product (and accompanying accessories) through its distribution partners, as well as directly via the company’s website. FTDI Chip will also give engineers complete access to a comprehensive development resource, which has step-by-step tutorials and projects, plus a series …

FTDI Chip launches Cle0

5G is hovering on the doorstep. There will be one 5G capable city in every EU country by 2020, say the operators. But what will EU 5G be like? 16 years after the 3G auction most people are relieved to get a 3G signal. As for 4G, to call it elusive would be flattering it. …

Blackmail

There was once a company founder who was most embarrassed when the US House Ways and Means Committee reported that he was the best paid man in the USA. The Committee quoted other notable earners like Walter Chrysler founder of Chrysler, Sam Goldwyn, the cowboy comedian Will Rogers and Alfred Sloan. But the company founder …

Fable: The Man Who Was Embarrassed By The Size Of His Pay Packet