What caught your eye this week? (Intel layoffs, Startups, Power tunnel)

We’re talking Intel laying off 15,000 people, the ChipStart incubator, a super power tunnel in London, and Airbus building two microwave radiometers  for CNES…

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes, or anything else in the wide world of electronics, that caught their eye…

What caught your eye this week? (Intel layoffs, Startups, Power tunnel)Caroline Hayes, editor
Despite the government shelving AI and tech funding plans, the ChipStart incubator is still going strong with 11 new startups – Eleven UK chip startups join ChipStart incubator (electronicsweekly.com)

David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was Intel saying it would lay off ‘at least’ 15,000 people.


Steve Bush, technology editor
National Grid LPT2 power tunnel mapBig electrical infrastructure projects can go un-noticed, so it is time to blow the horn for London’s ‘other’ tunnelling project: not the much publicised Thames super sewer, but the 32km of super power tunnel that will carry GW under South London, of which 2.5km has just been energised for the first time.

Alun Williams, web editor
What caught my eye was Airbus building two microwave radiometers on behalf of the French Space Agency (CNES). These will be for use on a NASA/JAXA international climate satellite mission.


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