NXP CEO Richard Clemmer has warned of weakness in the semiconductor market in the next few months. “We are seeing some weakness in the market,” Clemmer told Electronics Weekly, “orders are in pause mode.” Even in China a key market for semiconductor suppliers like NXP, Clemmer is seeing some caution amongst customers. “They are being more thoughtful about orders, and ...

Rutronik is now selling the entire Renesas Electronics product range throughout Europe. But the big focus will be the automotive sector, with Rutronik taking on role of strategic automotive distributor for all of Europe.

NXP maintained its seventh successive quarterly run of revenues in the $1-$1.2bn range with total revenues of $1.12bn for Q2.

LEDs will become the dominant lighting technology, claims market analyst Frost & Sullivan, writes Steve Bush.

Here's a very interesting project, with a very worthy motive behind it, reports Technabob. Some engineers at Libelium, a wireless sensor network company, decided to help the people of Japan, around Fukushima, determine levels of radiation for themselves.

STMicroelectronics was formed out of two sick companies – Thomson of France and SGS of Italy. The first CEO of the combined group was Pasquale Pistorio.

Process variability does not immediately sound as though it has an impact on low-power design, but it has several insidious consequences. And it’s gradually getting to be more of a problem. Variability causes higher power consumption because of the way it can shift the threshold voltage, which can make transistors a lot leakier than they should be. Typically, the leakage ...

TSMC expects to begin its ramp of its first finfet-based process in Q4 2013, says CEO Morris Chang. The process geometry will be 14nm. Currently TSMC is ramping 28nm – but slower than expected due to softening demand. Nonetheless the company has 89 tape-outs, according to Chang, adding: “The first silicon of every tape out was fully functional.” By the end ...

Not quite sure how much to make of this, but it makes interesting reading… Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies has run a Display Technology Shoot-Out series, featured on the website Gizmodo. He provides side-by-side comparisons – based on “detailed lab measurements and extensive viewing tests” of five major new tablets: Apple iPad 2, the Motorola Xoom, the Asus Transformer, ...

Microlease has announced that it is now operating from its new 27,000 square foot facility at Waverly Industrial Park in Harrow, Middlesex