Mannerisms

According to Northwest Executive Education, the ten best paid US execs last year were: Elon Musk,  $23.5 billion Tim Cook,  $770.5 million Sundar Pichai, $280 million Jensen Huang, $561 million Reed Hastings, Netflix: $453.5 million Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron Pharma $452.9 million. Marc Benioff, Salesforce: $439.4 million Satya Nadella, $309.4 million . Robert A. Kotick, Activision Blizzard: $296.7 million Hock E. ...

“De minimis” rules, which state that incoming goods under a certain value are not subject to import duties, were temporarily  suspended by the US but reinstated within a week. A rule change was explained in the cases of China and Canada, by the need to stop the unregistered import of fentanyl or its ingredients to the U.S. Data from the ...

64 years ago, this was the cartoon in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 5th 1960  

In three months, three incidents of damage to Baltic Sea underwater cables have taken place, severing at least partly seven different telecommunication links that connect Sweden, Finland, Germany, Estonia and Latvia. Ten different Baltic underwater cables and three gas pipes have been cut since 2022.. A number of  ships suspected of involvement in sabotage have been boarded and searched:  the ...

I’ve been spending the last five days bobbing about on the Caribbean in a tech billionaire’s yacht, Ed confides to his diary. Everything you could possibly think you might want is provided instantly. The accommodation is beyond luxurious. The toys include speedboats, a mini-sub, a helicopter and a light seaplane. Massages, steam baths and spa stuff are available night and ...

The prospect of war with Iraq has led to a postponement of semiconductor demand but not to an absolute decline, said Doug Andrey, principal analyst of the SIA at the 2003 Globalpress ‘Leading the Recovery’ conference in Monterey. “After 9/11 we saw demand postponed but it did not disappear,” said Andrey, arguing that the same thing was happening again, and ...

When politicians start involving themselves in industry, they usually end up looking silly. The investments in chips by the US, Europe and Japan seem only to have confirmed the status quo ante that TSMC is the only company which can  make leading-edge chips.  Despite all the money laid out by governments, the only company to get advanced  fabs up and ...

There was once a distinguished physicist who was also a master marketeer and this combination propelled his company to be No.2 in the semiconductor industry. He then left to head up another company whereupon the shares of his old company fell 10% and the share price of his new company rose 19%.  His old company sued him for damages for ...

First came the regulators, then came the lawyers now it’s the replicators. The regulators fussed about job losses and the extinction of mankind if AI created a malevolent super intelligence. The lawyers concerned themselves with whether the data used to train AI programmes infringed copyrights. The replicators have found how to make AI programmes cheaply by   tapping into other ...

The website of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) went dark over the weekend and employees were put on leave. Elon Musk said on Monday during a live stream   that President Donald Trump wanted to shut down the largest disburser of U.S. foreign aid. Reports said that USAID could be absorbed into the State Department while many ...

Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top 10 EV vendors:

Despite poor iPhone sales  in China, Apple made a 2024 profit of $180 billion at gross margins of 46.2 percent for the year and 46.9 percent for Q1. The company’s services revenues from Apple Music, the App Store, Apple Care, iCloud etc have a gross margin of 74% – up 10 points in 5 years. For products, gross margin is ...

Developments in electronic and semiconductor engineering are having a significant bearing on safety in factories, according to a Ministry of  Labour report on electrical accidents and their causes in 1959 published last week (HMSO 5s. 6d. net). So 64 years ago started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 5, 1960. The story continues: The report refers to the ...

Where the number of retirees for every 100 workers already stood at more than 55 in Japan and 41 in Italy in 2022, projections say this could hit 81 and 74 by 2050, reveals OECD. These demographic changes will affect a growing number of countries in the coming decades, including China and the US. China as well as South Korea ...

The profit potential in the DeepSeek phenomenon is that it makes it clear to everyone, even politicians, that AI development is not just for deep pocketed corporates with access to massive datacentres but for SMEs, universities, startups and individuals – and that includes Yours Truly, Ed confides to his diary, I get Greaser on the burner blower. “How much does ...

Computers started to sing 63 years ago – the first warbling data cruncher was IBM’s 7094 and this is what it sang:

US trade with Mexico, China and Canada accounted for around 43 percent by value of all U.S. goods imports in 2023. UN Comtrade data shows that the United States imported $3.2 trillion worth of goods and exported $2.0 trillion in the corresponding year. Of these exports, goods shipped to Canada comprised 18 percent of the export value, while Mexico took ...

This device delivered a voltage gain of about 15 and a power gain of 1.3 Moral: If at first you don’t succeed . . . . . . . . . . .

Degree students in emerging economies are more likely to be working towards a degree online, according to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights. 21 percent in South Africa, 19 percent in India and 12 percent in Brazil said they had done so in the 12 months prior to the survey. Academic online education was also popular in Australia at 8 ...

DeepSeek spent only $6 million on computing power to train its R1 model, it says, and showed that  quality results in AI can be achieved with much fewer chips or less advanced ones, than had been supposed. The lower price associated with DeepSeek-R1 is also visible in pricing info published by chatbot provider DocsBot. The price of using an AI ...