TowerJazz receives the first payment of $18 million, which makes binding their earlier agreement to set up an 8-inch fab in Nanjing.

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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is asking for a $90 million budget to fund purchases of software and foundry services

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Intel has announced new iterations of its i5 and i7 mobile processors which are said to deliver performance increases of ‘up to’ 40%. The new 8th generation i7s run at 1.8 and 1.9GHz and the new i5s at 1.7GHz and 1.6GHz. There will be 145 different flavours. Intel says they will deliver ‘up to’ 10 …

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Fujitsu is finally looking to off-load its mobile phone operation, reports the Nikkei. In February, Fujitsu spun out its cellphone and PC operations into a new company called Ubiquitous Solutions. It is in negotiations with Lenovo for the disposal of the PC element of Ubiquitous Solutions. Now it is said to be receiving interest for …

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The latest Raspberry Pi and 3D printers are among a list of key items now used to equip schools and colleges in the teaching of electronics, says Farnell element14.

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The latest trend in electric bike (e-bike) design is the use of integrated batteries built into bicycle frames. The advantages of integrated batteries include better weight distribution and aesthetic design. An example, is the URV8 battery from BMZ Group. This is an integrated battery in an aluminum housing which is removable from the top, bottom, …

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Microsoft has selected Intel’s Stratix 10 FPGAs as the main hardware accelerator in its new accelerated deep learning platform – code-named Project Brainwave. The aim is to use the accelerated deep learning platform to deliver artificial intelligence in real-time for its cloud services. This will provide facial recognition and voice recognition on smartphones. As well …

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Semiconductor capex will rise 20% this year, forecasts IC Insights, with 2Q17 setting a new record for quarterly spending outlays.

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The US Department of Energy has studied new open-plan office lighting at a New York accounting firm, and found the SSL installation pleasant for the employees yet trailing LED luminaires in efficiency.

AWS is pleased to release a major update to the SQL Server Quick Start to support SQL Server version 2016.