TSMC saw revenues shrink 7.5% in Q2 compared to Q1 but says it still expects 2.2% sequential growth in Q3 and double-digit growth for the full year, reports Digitimes. It expects Q3 revenues to be around $6.7billion. However it expects the overall semiconductor to grow only 3% and the foundry industry to grow 6%. “The end market recovery is not ...
Standard essential patent (SEP) holders have been reined in by a court judgement yesterday limiting their rights to take legal action against rival companies. Now, if you own standard essential patents, and you want to take out an injunction against a willing potential licensee, you could be found guilty of abusing a dominant position. The European Court of Justice, the ...
Harvard Engineering, which designs and makes electronic control gear for lighting in Yorkshire, has a new CEO. Paul Hussey joins Harvard from private equity-backed Strix – which deigns and makes safety and control devices for small domestic appliances and filtration systems – it makes the thermostats within many of the world’s kettles. Prior to Strix, Hussey held executive positions at Danaher, ...
The European Commission has opened two formal antitrust investigations into possible abusive behaviour by Qualcomm in the field of baseband chipsets used in consumer electronic devices. The first will examine whether Qualcomm has breached EU antitrust rules that prohibit the abuse of a dominant market position by offering financial incentives to customers on condition that they buy the baseband chipsets ...
Intel had Q2 revenues of $13.2 billion down 4% y-o-y for $2.7 billion net income and a gross margin of 62.5%. The PC business brought in revenues of $7.5 billion which was a 13.5% y-o-y decline, and the data centre business contributed $3.9 billion up 10% on Q2 2014 and up 5 % on Q1. 10nm production, scheduled for mid-2016, ...
Three good years for semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales are projected by SEMI. SEMI forecasts that the semiconductor equipment market will grow 7% in 2015 to reach $40.2 billion and expand another 4% in 2016 to reach $41.8 billion. Last year it grew 18%. Regionally, the spend will be: 2015 $bn. % change on 2014. 2016 $bn China. 4.66. 6.6%. 5.54 ...
Hot on the heels of the acquisition of ISSI by a Chinese private equity company, another China-based fund has bid for Micron valuing it at $23 billion. The offer of $21 a share is 19% over its pre-bid closing price. China has been reported to have ambitions to build a DRAM industry and buying Micron, the third largest DRAM company, ...
Angela Merkel visited Infineon’s Dresden fab today and discussed the political framework for a competitive development and production in Germany with CEO Reinhard Ploss. Infineon runs its largest and most modern manufacturing and technology development centre in Dresden with roughly 2,000 employees. The Chancellor was given a view into Industrial 4.0 production via a live broadcast into the factory. This ...
Yorkshire-based touch sensing firm Peratech has completed a £1m funding round for more engineering and sales staff. Investment came from existing shareholders, including Finance Yorkshire, and “enables Peratech to accelerate and expand prototyping and other commercial services to its customers”, said Peratech. The firm’ product is a force-sensing elastomer called QTC. The latest QTC-enabled product to be revealed is Flitchio ...
Weightless-N Smart City networks from Nwave Technologies have been deployed in Copenhagen and Esbjerg, Denmark. Operating in sub-1GHz, licence-exempt ISM spectrum using ultra narrow band (UNB) technology, Weightless-N offers a range of several kilometres, even in c urban environments. Very low power consumption provides for exceptionally long battery life measured in years from small conventional cells. It is the first ...
