Gartner and IDC have completed their PC unit shipment data for 2016.

Read full article: 2016 PC unit numbers down

Beta Gallium Oxide has potential as a wide band-gap semiconductor, says Purdue University, delivering ultra-efficient switches for power electronics applications

Read full article: Beta Gallium Oxide delivers ultra-wide band-gap GOOI

On 12th January 2017 the Candidate SVHC list increased by 4 to 173. This is the list change that was expected in December. For more details see https://echa.europa.eu/candidate-list-table Directive Decoder – Peter Wheeldon, Head of Global Product Compliance, Farnell element14 See also: REACH SVHC List changed See also: REACH – Notification of SVHC’s

Read full article: Candidate SVHC list increases

The latest monthly split of Android platform share has been released by Google, for January 2017. As always, it’s based on active devices interacting with Google Play over the period of a week.

Read full article: Android platform stats: So, farewell then, Froyo…

According to Digitimes, Tsinghua is planning to build two more fabs in addition to the one it is building at its subsidiary Yangtze River Storage.

Read full article: Tsinghua plans $70bn fab spend

Zytronic signs a worldwide distribution agreement with Future Electronics for its ZyBrid p-cap touch sensors and display modules.

Read full article: Touch display firm Zytronic signs global deal with Future

The market for non-military hybrid and pure electric ships and boats will rise to over $20bn worldwide in 2027

Read full article: Electric ships market $20bn by 2027

TSMC’s Q4 profits were a record $3.15 billion on revenues of $8.25 billion. Y-o-Y Q4 growth was 28.8% and 16/20nm contributed 33 % of revenues and 28nm contributed 24%. Full years sales were just shy of $30 billion – up 12.4% on 2015. Chairman Morris Chang foresees 2017 revenue growth for TSMC of 5 to 10%. For …

Read full article: TSMC has $8bn Q4

50 years ago next year, the UK government gave a UK company the funding to install an MOS process. This was when Fairchild was dithering over making MOS, when Intel had not yet been founded specifically to pursue MOS , and when General Microelectronics was one of the few US companies successfully pursuing the technology. …

Read full article: Fable: The Far-Sighted Government

Our one-day event will cover the challenges and solutions for hardware and software security, particularly in the context of the IoT.

Read full article: IoT Secure Systems Summit 2017 – coming in April