“The server world is changing,” says Lou di Nardo, CEO of Exar, “the customers are defining the system they want. There’s a focus on low-power servers which is creating a discontinuity – programmability is one feature of that.”

Infineon and GloFo are working on a 40nm embedded flash process for automotive and secure MCU applications for qualification in 2015.

‘Two years since the first integrated circuits became available from Mullard’s Southampton facility, the groundwork for a ‘Ford type’ mass production unit has been built round that pilot installation.’  So starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s issue of September 24th 1969.

Rohde & Schwarz has entered the mixed-signal oscilloscope market. The test firm has added a logic analysis option to its range of analogue scopes.

‘A close shave,’ Ed confides to his diary, ‘so long as the CFO keeps on seeing Clarissa I could be in the clear. It’s important that if there any leaks of company information to her hedgie pals that it would appear to have come from the CFO rather than me.’

The University of Surrey has revealed the design for its 5G mobile technology research centre. The architects Scott Tallon Walker won the competition to create the 5G Innovation Centre, which will be focussed on 5G networking. The university states: It will mean that the university campus becomes the first place in the world to test 5G technology by using lampposts ...

Alexander Duesener, v-p of worldwide field operations in EMEA for Cadence Design Systems believes chip designers have a crucial role in maintaining Europe’s strengths in wireless and automotive systems

Engineering skills initiative the UK Electronics Skills Foundation has added three more universities to its programme. The initiative is working with universities to address the declining number of electronic engineering degree students and to attract more talented young people to the electronics industry. The universities of Glasgow, Newcastle and Nottingham have joined another eight UK universities already participating in the ...

ARM CEO Warren East says the processor company, which he leaves this summer, has “grown up” during his 12 years at the helm. “We have grown up in to a real business with a sustainable future,” East told Electronics Weekly in an exclusive interview. “Twelve years ago ARM was a very promising start-up with a presence in the mobile market,” ...

Europe is to lead the world in MEMs it was stated 16 years ago in Electronics Weekly’s edition of November 20th 1996.