Pat Whalen was awarded a 2016 Water’s Next Award for his business achievements.
The Cult
It always seemed that working for one of Silicon Valley’s new, global, multi-billion dollar algorithm companies would be good fun – bring your pet to work, free connoisseur meals, lots of sexy chicks, recreational facilities in the office etc. But apparently it’s not quite like that. A sacked Facebook advertising manager called Antonio Garcia Martinez …
Cloud infrastructure growth slows
Q1 sales of cloud computing infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) grew by 3.9% year over year to $6.6 billion, says IDC. “A slowdown in hyperscale public cloud infrastructure deployment demand negatively impacted growth in both public cloud and cloud IT overall,” says IDC’s Kuba Stolarski, “private cloud deployment growth also slowed, as 2016 …
Rambus buys Inphi’s memory interconnect business
Rambus has bought Inphi’s Memory Interconnect Business for $90 million in cash. The acquisition includes all assets of the Inphi Memory Interconnect Business including product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property. The combined business strengthens Rambus’ position in memory buffer chip products and amplifies execution for future non-volatile memory programmes. “By combining …
Effect Of Brexit On IC Industry – Not Much
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 …