Forbes carries a piece on the impact of Brexit on the semiconductor industry and its conclusion is: not much. Most semiconductor products and their manufacturing equipment is duty-free under WTO rules, says Forbes. The US supplies 50% of the market and China uses 50% of all semiconductor production. Europe makes less than 10% of worldwide …
First Driverless Car Fatality
How awful is this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/30/tesla-autopilot-death-self-driving-car-elon-musk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com
Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with LoRa IoT networks, 5G, Brexit, Intel, and Project Bloks all figuring prominently… Taking it in reverse order as always: 10. Europe goes for LoRa IoT network technology without UK 9. China to build $600m IC Science Park 8. Qualcomm offers 6GHz radio chips …
sureCore raises more cash
sureCore, the Sheffield low-power SRAM IP specialist, has received another tranche of cash from Mercia (which took over another sureCore’s previous investor EVG). Mercia led the Series B seven figure investment round alongside existing investors Finance Yorkshire Seedcorn Fund and Capital-E. EVG had previously invested £1,020,000 seed and early stage finance via its Finance Yorkshire …
INEX closes Innovation Gap
INEX is closing the Innovation Gap for the manufacturing of specialist MEMs, sensors and compound semiconductors. The Innovation Gap is the transition from developing a product in a lab to getting it made cost-effectively in a suitable fab. This becomes extremely difficult when people are developing products using radically new materials. “MEMS has gone from …
The Slow-Growth Market
Eight years ago, when Moshe Gavrielov became CEO of Xilinx, he saw it as the ‘dream job’. “I’ve been 30 years in the semiconductor industry,” he said at the time, “ I spent ten years designing microprocessors and SOCs, then ten years in ASIC, and then ten years in EDA, so I think of it …
The Power over Ethernet lighting picture gets bigger
There’s so much PoE illumination at this data center that one vendor wasn’t enough.
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