STMicroelectronics is expecting an 8% fall in sales in Q4 from Q3 with weakness in most areas except wireless. However the last three weeks have seen an upturn in bookings. “We have two problems,” says ST CEO Carlo Bozotti, “one problem is the market of course; the other problem is called Nokia.” ST expects Q4 gross margin of 33.5% compared ...

SiliconBlue, the low-power FPGA specialist, is sampling three new chips in its “We listened carefully to our customers and are proud to deliver the broadest range devices and package styles supporting their diverse requirements for power/performance/price trade offs,” says Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue. These devices are available in the broadest package styles from 2.5 x 2.5 plastic BGA to ...

‘What really pisses me off is competitors playing the green card,’ Ed confides to his diary, ‘one of them is particularly gross – getting media attention all the time bragging about their carbon neutrality.’

UK-based automotive OEMs and Tier 1 manufacturers will meet over 80 supply chain companies at three specialist business building events in November, seeking to source more locally produced components to boost the £4.5bn automotive supply chain industry.

Atmel has announced an active stylus chip that delivers "accuracy and linearity of +/-0.25mm" on a capacitive touch screen from a 1mm diameter stylus tip, claimed the firm.

Europe has recorded the lowest number of venture capital deals in a decade, according to the latest figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. Social media and entertainment start-ups, the heart of Silicon Roundabout in London, were hardest hit, while medical start-ups saw many more deals coming though.

Samsung Electronics is now the largest supplier of smartphones, topping Apple’s iPhones for the first time, according to IHS iSuppli. Samsung in the third quarter shipped an estimated 27.30 million smartphones, up 43.7% on the second quarter. Apple’s shipments declined to 17.1 million iPhones, down 15.9% on the second quarter. “Samsung has been coming on strong in the global smartphone market in 2011 because ...

Medical data services and systems startup Isansys Lifecare in Oxford has opened a new subsidiary in India.

Another nail in the coffin of ASICs?  Xilinx’s 20m ASIC gate stacked silicon FPGA will accelerate the process of replacing ASICs, says the company’s CEO Moshe Gavrielov.

Farnell’s engineering website, element14 is offering the DK-LM3S9D96 development kit for the Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller from Texas Instruments at a promotional price of £238.