Mannerisms

Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten EV vendors in Q1 2025.

Last year, 45% of  ICE car models in China and 39% of EV modecost under $25,000, according to the International Energy Agency . For cars costing $50k and more, 21% were ICE and 15% wereEVs. In Europe,  3% of EV models and none in the U.S. were priced below $25,000 last year. Only 6% in Europe and 3% in the ...

65 years ago, this was a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 12 1960

A recent survey by Patriotic Millionaires UK shows that a majority of millionaires in G20 countries supports a 2% tax on wealth. When asked if any millionaires with a wealth of more than $10 million should pay the tax, 58% of the more than 2,000 millionaire survey participants said yes. As part of the same survey, 75% agreed that billionaires ...

Some would think I’m lucky get two lunches at the Ritz in a fortnight, but you’ve got to take account of my hosts – lobbyists for the water and arms industries – smooth guys but depressingly inhuman, Ed confides to his diary. The arms guys were more generous than the water guys, ordering up the Poulet de Bresse en Vessie ...

‘A tour d’horizon of the challenges facing the IC industry was delivered by Ravi Subramanian, CEO of Berkley Design Automation, to the 2011 Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz. ‘Subramanian started at the macro level, pointing out that where GDP is growing the fastest in the world, per capita income is low. “In the next three or four decades people ...

Tesla’s Robotaxi  launch in Austin could be more a sign of technological weakness than a demonstration of technological prowess.. Analysts say that 60% of Tesla’s stock market valuation derives from its expertise in autonomous driving. But whereas Waymo has 1500 vehicles in five cities offering paid-for robotaxi trips in fully autonomous vehicles without a safety driver, Tesla has 24 cars ...

There was once a prodigious scientist, a President of the Royal Society who was  created a baronet  and who, in the year 1808, discovered  five elements including calcium and boron. He created the first incandescent light, discovered the properties of nitrous oxide, invented electrochemistry, was friends with Coleridge and Southey, wrote over 160 poems and painted pictures. Late in his ...

I expect you know by now that generative AI search engines come up with loads of bollox in their answers to questions about current affairs. It’s good to have your own experience validated by research and the Columbia Journalism Review quotes a study by the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism which has found a substantial proportion of inaccuracies in answers ...

Due to its large reserves and strategic position,  Iran plays a significant role in the global oil market, giving the country a valuable bargaining chip in international negotiations. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Iran produced roughly 4,700 million barrels of crude oil and natural gas liquids per day in 2024, making it the world’s sixth largest oil producer. ...

Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten OSAT companies:

The Dreamliner in the Indian plane crash was 12 years old which is older than the average age of Air India’s fleet which is 8.1 years, according to Planespotters.net 8.1 years is relatively young in comparison to other major airlines around the world – an average age of 12 is not uncommon with major carriers. United Airlines, Lufthansa and Air ...

65 years ago, when the UK computer industry matched the best of the rest of the world, this ad appeared in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 12 1960.

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy has released a new report outlining how Europe could replace U.S. support for Ukraine both financially and militarily. The organization has calculated that European governments as a whole will need to nearly double their aid flow from the current €44 billion per year to €82 billion per year, which equates to an increase ...

I particularly enjoy having lunch at the Ritz – lovely dining, room superb service but the problem today is the company – I’m  being lunched by lobbyists for the water companies – probably the most unpopular industry in the country, Ed confides to his diary. It turns out that neither the water companies nor the data centres need to reveal ...

Back in 2011, as now, the world seemed a turbulent place and, as now, chips were getting the blame for it. ‘Worldwide political turbulence is being enabled by semiconductors, Dave Bell, CEO of Intersil, told the 2011 Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz. “The world is moving at a dizzying pace because of the power of interconnection,” said Bell, “the ...

The American public does not approve of any bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites according to a survey by The Economist and YouGov . Only 16% of respondents were in favour and only 19% of those who voted for Trump in the presidential election were in favour.. Republicans in general showed still-low support of 23%. A significant part of respondents also said ...

This house belonged to a famous inventor: The inventor did not enjoy socialising but his wife would invite people to formal dinner parties. Fortunately the house was large enough for him to keep an upstairs room for himself  and his daughter recalls that, when these dinner parties occurred, “He would feign indigestion and skip dinner, being the only man to ...

Four in ten people say that they avoid the news at least sometimes, according to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025, published on Tuesday. This is according to a survey of nearly 100,000 people across 48 countries. Of these, 39% said that they purposefully turned away from news because it has a negative effect on their mood, while 31% ...

This week the Vatican is holding a two day conference on AI in the Apostolic Palace. Attendees include execs from Google, Meta, Palantir, IBM, Anthropic and Cohere. The new Pope, Leo XIV, took his name from Leo XIII who, in the 1890s, challenged the robber baron tycoons who dominated an age of rapid technological change which exploited workers. In 1891, Leo ...