Government moves to promote the UK space industry took shape this week with the introduction of the Space Industry Bill in the House of Lords. The government wants the UK to take advantage of the growing global space industry with multiple micro-satellite launches. The Bill, which was outlined in the Queen’s Speech, represents the UK’s ...
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French ecology minister Nicholas Hulot says France will end the sale of internal combustion engine cars by 2040. The announcement follows Volvo’s announcement earlier this week that it will only make hybrid and electric cars from 2019. Over 95% of French cars have internal combustion engines with electric cars representing 1.2% of the total and ...
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Earlier today, at an earnings preview, Samsung said its Q2 profit was 72% up on Q2 2016’s $7 billion to reach $12 billion on sales which rose 18% to $52 billion. It is reported that $7 billion of the $12 billion quarterly profit came from memory representing 60% of the Q2 profit. Three years ago ...
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The 2016 semiconductor rankings by IPnest saw ARM at No.1 and Imagination at No.3 but, while ARM grew 20% last year, Imagination shrank 21%. ARM, with revenues of $1.65 billion had a 48% share of the $3.39 billion 2016 semiconductor IP market which grew 13% on 2015. No.2 was Synopsys with $450 million revenues and ...
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The EU Competition Commissioner is in the warpath again, this time for companies which allegedly misled the EU during M&A regulatory procedures. GE is being accused of providing wrong information during its takeover of LM Wind Power. GE could be fined up to 1% of annual sales. Merck and Sigma-Aldrich are under the cosh ...
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Melexis, the Belgian automotive IC specialist, has a LIN-to-LIN gateway that overcomes the limitation of 16 devices on a typical LIN bus. Each MLX81120 connects as a LIN slave on the main LIN bus and is controlled directly from the vehicle’s Body Control Module (BCM). The new device allows for up to 16 LIN RGB ...
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