Finance

The SEMI book-to-bill hit 1:10 in March up from February’s 1:03 and January’s 1:04.

Warren East, former CEO of ARM, is to become CEO of Rolls-Royce.

ARM has signed a rare architecture licence which allows licensees to design their own cores which use the ARM instruction set. The identity of the licensee is not being revealed.

ARM saw Q1 revenue growth of 14% year-on-year reaching $348 million, with processor royalty revenue growth of 31% year-on-year reaching $167.5 million and licensing revenue growth of 3% rising to $133.2 million.

In a letter to politicians advocating the passage of the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act, the US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has stated the importance of the semiconductor industry to America.

Foundry industry revenues grew 16.1% in 2014, says Gartner, to reach $46.9 billion. It is the third successive year of 16% + growth in the foundry business.

Nokia has confirmed it is in advanced talks to buy rival communications network infrastructure firm Alcatel-Lucent. If successful, the merger would great a major network supplying business and would turn the global network infrastructure market into a three way battle with Ericsson and Chinese giant, Huawei.    Nokia’s market capitalisation is more than twice that of Alcatel-Lucent at more than ...

sureCore, the Sheffield low power SRAM IP company, has opened a design centre in Leuven, Belgium.

Q1 PC sales were 6.7% down on Q1 2014, says IDC. That’s a big year-on-year drop compared to Q4’s 2.4% drop and Q3’s 1.7% fall.

Rupert Baines, formerly v-p at picoChip and MindSpeed, has become CEO of UltraSOC which sells debug and analysis IP for IC design.