European Semiconductor sales in October grew at 7.5% on September which wasfaster than the 5.1% growth of the worldwide market in October.

Ed the serial CEO has been foisted on his new company by the VC backers who want Ed to dress up the company for its forthcoming IPO. Ed’s diary, which recently came into my hands, shows Ed finding the situation less straightforward than he expected.

"October is historically a strong month for the semiconductor industry as electronic equipment manufacturers ramp production for the holiday season," said George Scalise, the outgoing CEO of the SIA

The low power FPGA start-up company, SiliconBlue, is shipping in volume to more than ten customers – the first time a start-up programmable logic company has got such a degree of market traction for over 20 years

Fujitsu has made transistors on graphene grown directly on an insulating substrates, opening a way to use the super-fast material without processing it elsewhere, then transferring it to a suitable substrate

A British team of researchers has designed a robot which they claim is capable of reproducing the behaviour of rats by using whiskers to explore its environment

With a built-in protection circuit, inrush current is kept to a relatively low value without compromising on the output current capability of the LDO, said the supplier

Presumably there is a market for such remote recording devices as they are available for purchase for $61.99.

Last week’s post on: Why is MediaTek So Damn Good? which was written after it was announced that MediaTek grew 21.7% last year, produced some extremely interesting responses.

In fact, new converts to FPGA will be shocked to find out that the entire tools suite for FPGA design is lower in cost than an entry level ASIC-class HDL linting and debugging tool