STMicroelectronics is the latest chip supplier to put numbers to how much inventory it has taken out of its supply chain.

There was once a visionary called Geoffrey Dummer. Four years before the invention of the IC he described one and how it might be made and, one year before the IC’s invention, a non-working model of an IC based on Dummer’s concept was fabricated by Plessey and demonstrated at the 1957 International Symposium on Components in Malvern, Worcestershire.

The world’s second largest wireless semiconductor company, the three month-old ST-Ericsson, held its first results meeting today, announcing a loss, a re-structuring programme and confidence in its financial strength. The 50/50 joint venture between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics started operations on February 2nd 2009 and reported sales of $391m for an operating loss of $98m. “Even in such a challenging climate, ...

Having covered the semiconductor business for nearly 20 years now, through three major recessions, I am increasingly coming to the opinion that venture capital is not merely dead or dying, but undead. “Venture capital is dead,” says Henry Hyde-Thomson, chairman of Anglo Scientific near Malvern, and that was backed up by 3i pulling out of venture capital last year. Part of ...

We mentioned a few weeks ago that NEW has gained the support of the industry across extremely diverse market sectors. It’s now got even better and I’m delighted to exclusively reveal that Weeeco, Electronic Metalwork Services, Bel Stewart, WTC, FCI Connectors, Pico Technology, Precision Micro and Accelonix will also be joining us over 16th-18th June at London’s Earls Court 2. ...

We had developed the World's first machine capable of wishful-thinking.

Hardware-software co-verification firm Eve has expanded the hardware debugging capabilities of its ZeBu emulation systems by adding support for SystemVerilog As

Advanced Power TOPLED Plus from Osram Opto Semiconductors has luminous efficacy of up to 90 lm/W.

President Barack Obama’s appointment this week of the members of the USA’s Science and Technology Council looks as if it has fallen into exactly the same trap as the UK does in these matters: it has too many scientists and not enough technologists.

Arrow Electronics, like its main competitor Avnet, saw sales and profit fall sharply in Q1. But unlike Avnet, Arrow does not yet see a bottom to the market downturn.