Mannerisms

Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five PC suppliers in Q2: Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Traditional PC Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, Q2 2024 (Preliminary results, shipments are in millions of units) Company 2Q24 Shipments 2Q24 Market Share 2Q23 Shipments 2Q23 Market Share 2Q24/2Q23 Growth 1. Lenovo 14.7 22.7% 14.2 22.5% 3.7% 2. HP Inc. 13.7 ...

Intel has come out with all guns firing. After horrible Q3 figures it has further re-positioned its foundry unit as an independent operation which will make its US rivals like AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm less wary about using it. The US Department of Commerce has been encouraging Nvidia and AMD to get aboard Intel Foundry and is doubtless encouraging more ...

64 years ago this was the cartoon in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26 1960:  

Googlegenerated $238 billion in revenue from its advertising segment in 2023, representing 77% of Alphabet’s overall revenue this past year. Hearings for the US anti-trust lawsuit against Google began on September 9, 2024. Company statements by Microsoft, Baidu and Yandex, a search portal formerly based in Russia and now headquartered in the Netherlands, show that even with users’ preference for ...

My moves to discredit the junior minister for science and technology, who was blocking my return to government office, have worked well, Ed confides to his diary. The junior minister’s plan to introduce an AI programme into the  science and technology department to evaluate whether government should fund particular start-ups has been corrupted by my devilish wheeze to introduce falsehoods ...

21 years ago it was already becoming obvious that Europe’s telcos were falling behind Asian telcos in the rate at which they were installing fibre to the home. When asked at the Fibrecomm2003 conference whether there was any operator in Europe with significant plans to bring fibre nearer to the user, Jean Baptiste-Loire, vice-president of marketing for Infineon Technology’s wireline ...

In the same week the EU congratulated itself on winning a couple of court cases (in European courts) against Apple and Alphabet, Mario Draghi presents a report saying Europe is doomed if it sticks to regulation rather than innovation. Draghi says that Europe must spend €800 billion a year to catch up with the US and China in digital technologies. ...

53 years ago, a Swiss guy who designed one of the most famous chips ever made, founded a semiconductor company. Six years later he sold it to Ferranti. He also introduced the phase-locked loop. He wrote several books about electronics but also one about religion addressing the question: ‘Does God exist?’ Moral: Great minds have catholic interests

In 2022, 1,552 Autonomous Vehicles driving 5.7 million miles were reported registered for testing in California. These AVs were involved in 150 collisions throughout the year, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ (DMV) Autonomous Vehicle Collision Reports, which puts AVs at a crash rate of 96.7 per 1,000 vehicles and 26.3 per million vehicle miles. Statista calculations with ...

Can Intel catch up in process technology with TSMC was a question asked at IFS2024 earlier this week. ‘When you get behind it takes 10 years to catch up,“ replied Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons, “you’re constantly chasing a moving  target.“ Intel is trying to do it in four years. “Technically they should be able to do it if ...

Thanks to TrendForce for this one   – the top three suppliers of AI servers using proprietary chips:

Today is World Suicide Prevention day. South Korea and Lithuania had the highest rates of suicide among men in 2021 at 34.9 and 33.1 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. For women, South Korea and Japan had the highest rates of the selected countries, with 15.2 and 10.2 cases per 100,000. The  data on suicide prevalence in OECD shows that of ...

PRODUCTION has started of  a high power tunable Klystron, the 4K M50.0001 A, manufactured by the English Electric Valve Company from information supplied by Eitel McCullough Inc., USA. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26 1960 The story continues: The valve operates at 400 to 610 Mc/s and  is mechanically tuned by external ...

Before the end of the decade, the world will see the first construction megaproject with a cost estimate exceeding $1 trillion,  according to 1Build estimates. Out of  the nine projects worth over $100 million currently underway, as identified by 1Build, International Construction Magazine and Construction Review , four are being built in Arab Gulf States. This includes Neom City, actually ...

It seems to me that I am eminently suitable to be the ‘Chips Envoy’ proposed by the European Semiconductor Industry Association, Ed confides to his diary. I have done 30 years before the mast in the chip industry, been the CEO of three semiconductor companies, been the UK’s principal Minister for science, technology, industry and commerce and I know my ...

Nowadays, despite the generational hype about new use cases, new generations of cellular telephony are used almost exclusively for congestion relief  and, back in 2003,  that was the  attitude towards the recently installed 3G  network. 21 years ago, Cambridge Consultants (CCL) were saying that 3G is for cost reduction and not for multimedia data transmissions such as streaming video and ...

2002 was the last year in which neither Roger Federer nor Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic won a Grand Slam title. This year, 22 years on, the same will happen again, as Novak Djokovic’s shock exit at the U.S. Open sealed the end of this remarkable run. When Federer won his first Wimbledon title in 2003, it marked the beginning ...

Many chip companies derived their names from either abbreviations/derivations of their provenance or from their targeted technology/market. These were the raw materials from which the names of some of the brightest stars in the chip firmament were formulated: Signal Network Electronics Z integrated logic Integrated Electronics Alterable Advanced Technology For Memory And Logic  Ex Intel Corporation International Silicon  Silicon ICs

I’m not quite sure what a black hole means to a politician but the £22 billion black hole which the government is banging on about doesn’t really seem very significant. After all it is about the same amount as the price of a leading-edge fab, or two thirds of TSMC’s 2024 capex budget. If a private company can afford that, ...

Three technologies will transform sales over the next decade, says Gartner: Emotion AI, machine sellers and digitally twinning  customers. “The common theme of these three technologies are their ability to predict, interpret and serve buyers’ needs and behaviours and to streamline and automate sales fulfilment, releasing sellers to focus on developing high value client relationships,” says Gartner’s  Guy Wood. Emotion ...