Spreadtrum tells me they will continue to make ARM-based mobile ICs following the investment by Intel in Spreadtrum’s owner, Tsinghua Unigroup.

Altera has availability of non-volatile  MAX-10 FPGAs. Using TSMC’s 55nm embedded flash process technology, MAX 10 FPGAs deliver dual-configuration flash, analogue and embedded processing capabilities in a small-form-factor, low-cost, instant-on programmable logic device. The FPGAs, shipping today, are supported by Quartus II software, evaluation kits, design examples, documentation, training and design services. 

Google has updated its Ts&Cs for the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement, which affects Android developers who have signed up to publish their apps through Google Play.

Toshiba’s first shipment of vegetables from an old fab at Yokosuka is scheduled for October.

More developments around Droidcon London 2014: Innovation Frontier will be bringing together some of the best Android startups from around the world to the event, to showcase their products.

HP  has brought out two ARM-based servers – the ProLiant M400 with a 2.4GHz ARMv8-based Applied Micro X-Gene eight-core SoC and M800 which has a 32-bit Texas Instruments quad-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A15 with eight DSP cores.

Kyocera’s ceramic packaging based on HTCC technology (High Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics), which is currently used with specific “non-magnetic” piece parts and plating options, is now being used to deliver an HTCC with platinum metallization on the top surface and in ceramic multilayering.

TSMC and ARM have today announced the results from a key FinFET silicon validation of the ARM big.LITTLE implementation, using ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors on TSMC’s advanced 16nm FinFET process technology.

A report by Analysys Mason commissioned by Google shows Internet companies like Facebook and Google invest over $30 billion per annum in physical networks, facilities and equipment, and have invested nearly $100 billion between 2011 and 2013.  The lion’s share of this ($30 billion over three years) goes to Europe.g

X-REL Semiconductor, the French fabless specialist in high reliability and extreme temperature ICs, is selling a low-power, small footprint crystal oscillator driver for high-reliability, extreme temperature and extended lifetime systems.