Mannerisms

Thanks to Semiconductor Intelligence for this one – the top 12 auto chip suppliers:  

During ing the coronavirus pandemic, the share of people doing no traveling at all rose globally, but save for a few exception, the market has normalized now. In 2021, the share of people saying they had done no traveling in the past 12 months grew as high as 29 percent in the United Kingdom and South Korea, up from just ...

 Marconi have officially confirmed that they are carrying out satellite tracking experiments as a contribution to space technology research. So, 63 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s  edition of April 5, 1961 The story continues: Dr. E. Eastwood, chief of re-search, says that to create communication channels between Britain and the US via a repeater satellite needs much ...

In 2023,  the EU countries with the highest proportions of citizens at risk of poverty or social exclusion were: Romania (32 percent), Bulgaria (30 percent), Spain (26.5 percent) and Greece (26.1 percent). The definition of those at risk of poverty or social exclusion is people living in households facing at least one of the three risks of poverty and exclusion: ...

Free space optics for processing, not interconnect, is an area which seems ripe to me from an investor’s point of view, Ed confides to his diary. It seems a bit blue skies but it has the all-important attribute that it has never been the subject of a  hype-cycle. So, for an investor, it’s cheap. I have put money into four ...

The prospect of war with Iraq has lead to a postponement of semiconductor demand but not an absolute decline, according to Doug Andrey, principal analyst of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) speaking at the 2003  Globalpress  conference in Monterey. “After 9/11 we saw demand postponed but it did not disappear,” said Andrey, arguing that the same thing is happening now, ...

Having topped the medals table in London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, the US continued to show its athletic superiority in Paris. China was the last country to break US Olympics dominance when it topped the medals table at the Beijing games in 2008. France also impressed in Paris, claiming 16 gold medals and 64 medals overall, compared to ...

94 years ago a company introduced this accessory for the motoring public which became ubiquitous. It brought fame and fortune to the company. Moral: A Great Pleasure Deserves A Great Reward

Inflation has outstripped wage growth in Finland, Italy, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Czech Republic, Sweden and New Zealand according to the OECD Employment Outlook 2024, with  real wages decreasing by more than 5% and Sweden seeing wages fall 7.5% The United States fared better than others as real wages were 0.8% lower in Q1 of 2024 than in Q4 of ...

EV fires are causing such public concern in Korea that the Korean government called a public meeting about them on Tuesday. Earlier this month an EV battery fire burnt out 140 cars parked in the underground car park of a Korean apartment building. Last year Korea reported 72 EV battery fires up fron 43 in 2022 and 24 in 2021. ...

Thanks to Supply Chain Connect for this one – the top 50 global distributors measured by annual revenue 1. Arrow Electronics, 2. Avnet, 3. WPG Americas 4. Digi-Key 5. Future Electronics 6. TTI 7. Mouser Electronics 8. RS Group 9. Fusion Worldwide 10. NewPower Worldwide 11. Smith 12. Newark Farnell 13. DGT Technology (HK) 14. DAC/Heilind Electronics 15. Master Electronics ...

It was International Friendship Day on July 30. Germans, and to a slightly lesser extent the Spanish, are particularly likely to include spending time with others as one of their main personal pastimes, according to data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey. By contrast, respondents in the US and in urban India were far less likely to consider socialising as ...

A PIPED television system with a difference was officially opened yesterday at Cwmbran New Town, Monmouthshire, by Rear Admiral St. John A. Micklethwait, chairman of Cwmbran Development Corporation. So, 63 years ago, opened a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 29, 1961 The story continued; The difference is that the system was planned by Multisignals Ltd. simultaneously and in ...

According to its conflict minerals report (CMR) for 2023, Amazon cannot rule out having sourced minerals from nine of ten African countries where human rights-violating militias finance themselves through mining. These countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola. The other four ...

Having managed to extricate myself from my unfortunate investments in AI ‘opportunities’, I am looking around for the next rope-a-dope ploy from the hype-monkeys, Ed confides to his diary. It wasn’t easy to get rid of them  – these weren’t particularly liquid investments and everyone’s selling this stuff – but  Greater Fool Theory came to my rescue and I didn’t come ...

The value of the chip content in electronic systems will peak at 25%, TSMC’s US President, Ed Ross, told the 2003 Globalpress Summit Conference in Monterey. The silicon foundry industry made 20% of the world’s chip production in 2022  for total foundry industry revenues of $10 billion, said Ross, ‘by 2010, the percentage of ICs manufactured in foundries will be ...

In 2023, world beer production decreased by nearly 17m hectolitres (hl) to 1.88 billion hl. In Europe, production fell by 9m hl, largely driven by a drop in output from the UK (-3.3m hl), Germany (-2.9m hl) and Poland (-2m hl). In the Americas, output fell by 7.2m hl with  U.S. production dropping 9.9m hl while South American production rose 2.4m ...

There was once a  semiconductor CEO whose company came up with some transformative technology breakthroughs. The problem was getting potential customers to buy into the possibilities these breakthroughs offered. He did two things: For one technology breakthrough he worked with a radio company to produce a first-of-a-kind radio one of which was bought by the CEO of IBM who was ...

The Intel story is the most gripping drama the semiconductor industry has seen for many years. Next year is the year that it plans to regain industry process leadership but this year the USA’s  most influential  chip industry financial analyst Stacy Rasgon says that Intel’s issues are “approaching the existential”. The shares are down from 60 to 20; it made ...

The 24 prisoner swap between the US and Russia in Ankara earlier this month was the biggest post-Cold War prisoner swap since the West and Russia exchanged 27 prisoners in 1985. Last week the US received 16 prisoners back from Russia and Russia got 8 prisoners back from the US, among them Vadim Krasikov, convicted in Germany in 2021 of ...