Here they are – the ten best semiconductor CEOs of 2016: Jen-Hsun Huang Ming-Kai Tsai Syed Ali Moshe Gavrielov Jalal Bagherli Sanjay Jha Reinhard Ploss Oh-Hyun Kwon Po Wen Yen Leo Li

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Half of the semiconductor executives surveyed by KPMG in its 2017 Outlook Report, expect revenue to grow and R&D spending to increase over the next three years, which is less than last year when the vast majority predicted revenue growth and R&D spending increases in the three-year outlook. “These are signs of a maturing industry, …

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92% of UK engineers are men and 94% are white, says a report by the Royal Academy of Engineering. In a startling report the RAEng finds that, despite the need to double the number of engineering graduates, hardly any are women or from ethnic minorities. While 71% of white engineering graduates were in full-time jobs …

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Tencent, the Chinese internet investment company, NavInfo, the Chinese digital mapping company and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, have bought 10% of HERE, the digital mapping company which Nokia sold to Audi, BMW and Daimler-Benz for $3 billion last year. The price is not disclosed. The three German car makers will reduce their stakes equally …

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Korea has fined Qualcomm $854 million for abuse of a dominant market position. Korea says Qualcomm used its position to impose excessive licensing fees on Korean smartphone makers. Korea fined Qualcomm $200 million in 2009 for the same offence. Last year Qualcomm paid China $975 million for the same thing. Qualcomm is also a facing …

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Yesterday, China’s National Space Administration announced an ambitious programme designed to make China one of the Big Three space powers alongside the USA and Russia. China aims to launch an unmanned Mars probe in 2020, and accomplish soft moon landings in 2017 and 2018, of which the second will be on the far side of …

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There are two main worries about the effect of Brexit on UK start-ups – will the UK still be able to attract and retain the best talent and will the EIF reduce its start-up investment. This is the conclusion of a report by CB Insights. At the moment the UK is the best place in …

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Amazon WorkMail now allows you to use Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac to access your email and calendar, and email client applications that use the IMAP protocol to access your email. This means users can choose from a wide range of email clients when using Amazon WorkMail, including Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Mac OS X, IMAP-based email clients, mobile devices and email clients that use the ActiveSync protocol, Apple Mail and Calendar applications on OS X, and the Amazon WorkMail web client from a web browser. In addition, IT applications that use the IMAP protocol to access email will now also work with Amazon WorkMail.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast.

MICROWAVE BATTLE IN USA Operators and equipment makers take sides. This, 56 years ago, was a headline in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 12th 1960. The story opens. The US Federal Communications Commission has confirmed its 1959 decision to license any private group to operate microwave systems in the frequency band above 890 Mc/s. The …

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