Mannerisms

Transportation and warehousing are going to be among the fastest growing sectors over the next decade, with wage and salary employment in the sector projected to grow 8.6%  between 2022 and 2032.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment Projections, At 9.7%, the biggest increase in employment is expected for the healthcare and social assistance sector, which is ...

WORK is to start later this year on Britain’s new air traffic control set-up and, by 1964, the first joint Civil/Military ATC centre is due to enter service. So, 63 years ago, started a story in the Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 22, 1961. The story continues: It will be the forerunner of a number of similar centres designed meet ...

Last year, tablet shipments fell to the lowest level in more than a decade – 128 million devices compared to 161 million in 2022, says IDC.   Apple remains the undisputed market leader with close to 40 percent market share in terms of unit shipments and even more than that in terms of value. Following the original iPad’s release in ...

Now’s the time to prepare for the tsunami of cheap chips about to come from China, Ed confides to his diary. With China now spending 47% of the entire worldwide semi capex on chip infrastructure, the amount of mature technology devices hitting the world markets at give-away prices is going to be stupid. There can be little doubt, that China ...

20 years ago the chip industry was digesting a shock – for the first time in its history a new process technology node was not resulting in the automatic benefit of delivering lower power. “The industry is facing a challenge which is unprecedented,” former Hitachi Semiconductor CEO and Sony CTO, Dr Tsugio Makimoto, told the 2004 Globalpress Summit Conference in ...

This gentleman, pictured with one of his inventions, was awarded over 1000 US patents.     Moral: Perspire

The anticipated flood of cheap Chinese chips is on its way. Earlier this week, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons, said that China’s semiconductor  capex has now reached 47.2% of the total world capex  which, said Penn, is “a serious red flag”.  China’s chip production will be up 60% in the next three years, said Penn, and doubled in five ...

Europe’s problem with the chip industry has always been sporadic investment and a lack of customers for the most advanced chips. The 1980s programmes JESSi and MEDEA gave Europe leading edge capability – Philips mass-manufactured SRAMs, Infineon made DRAMs and ST sold flash –  but a subsequent generation of CEOs let that lapse. 10 years ago, EC vp Neelie Kroes ...

Thanks to Our World In Data for this one – the 22 countries taking the most anti-depressants:

There has been a “worrying decline in support and respect for media autonomy and an increase in pressure from the state or other political actors” this year, according to the 2024 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). This is based on the fact that, of the five indicators used to compile the ranking, it is the ...

EXPORTS of British transistors and phototransistors in February reached a new high level of over £76,000 in value,a 27 per cent increase on January’s record total of £59,733. So, 63 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 26, 1961 The story continues: Although February imports of transistors were up  slightly from £74,283 to £82,965, the gap ...

Iceland continues to have one of the highest levels of antidepressant use in the world – with an average consumption of 157 daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants in 2022, according to the latest OECD data, Several other countries in the higher latitudes were also among the biggest consumers, with Canada (134; not shown on the chart), the UK (138; 2021 ...

The Rwanda flights could change everything as the migrants are prepared to do almost anything to avoid being sent there, Ed confides to his diary, already a large number have scarpered from their council-supplied asylum accommodation and are effectively on the run. With tens of thousands of asylum seekers currently in the UK, and the Home Office taking multiple months ...

In 1991, Intel and AMD were locked in a series of court battles about whether AMD was entitled to the mask-set for the 386 processor. That year, Jerry Sanders,, AMD’s founder, and CEO, came to Dataquest’s annual semiconductor conference in Marbella. Shortly before the conference, in one of the many legal cases about the 386, a judge had ruled that ...

If you work in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Jamaica you’re more likely to have a female boss than anywhere else, says the International Labor Organization. The latest data from 2022 and 2023 shows that in Burkina Faso and Nigeria, between 67 percent and 70 percent of all managers are women. Jamaica and Botswana are the only other countries listing more ...

96 years ago this propeller-driven passenger transport link was opened. The  idea was that it would carry passengers above the rail lines moving them more quickly than the slower freight  trains below. Moral: Putting two good ideas together doesn’t necessarily create another one

Americans’ views of China have worsened since  2018, according to Data by Gallup. The deterioration started with the U.S.-China trade war   under President Donald Trump, continued during Covid  which originated in China and has recently taken on yet another dimension among concerns about widespread Chinese tech and industrial espionage and subversion as well as continued human rights abuses and tension surrounding ...

Thanks to CanadaCIS for this one – the ten easiest countries from which to get citizenship: Rank Country Average % of non-EU residents who acquired citizenship 1 Sweden 9.3% 2 Norway 7.4% 3 Netherlands 7.1% 4 Portugal 6.6% 5 Iceland 6.5% 6 Ireland 6.5% 7 Romania 6.3% 8 United Kingdom 5.9% 9 Belgium 5.8% 10 Finland 5%  

The U.S. trade deficit in goods trade with China narrowed to its lowest level since 2010 last year, as imports from China fell by more than $100 billion compared to the previous year. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the deficit with China decreased more than 25 percent to $279 billion in 2023, as tensions – both economic and political ...

63 years ago, in Electronics Weekly’s issue of April 26th 1961, this ad appeared from EEV.