Asian sources are saying that ST is to stop taking orders for MCUs, although ST has denied the stories. Taiwan’s Economic Daily News says ST won’t take any more MCU orders until the end of this year. Digitimes reports that ST’s lead times on MCUs had been extended to 16-20 weeks and has stopped ...

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Vodafone reported a 3.3% drop in calendar Q2 – the result of selling its Dutch business and the weaker pound. Calendar Q2 revenue was €11.4bn, compared to €11.8bn in calendar Q2 2016. A 4.8% drop in Europe offset a 1.2% increase in EMEA. The Dutch sale was done to get regulatory approval for the merger ...

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Next year, for the first time, arms sales are to decline, says Jane’s. A weakening defence export order backlog points to a contraction in the market by 2018. Defence trade deliverables grew substantially in 2016. Markets expanded by $4.3 billion to hit $62.5 billion, as imports rose despite global defence spending falling between 2010 and ...

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Graphcore, the Bristol AI processor start-up headed up by Nigel Toon, has raised another $30 million taking its total funding to $60 million.. Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom is lead investor for the new funding round through his Atomico company. Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, Amadeus, C4 Ventures, Draper Esprit, Foundation Capital, Pitango and the venture arms ...

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With an order back-log of 27 EUV machines valued at $2.8 billion, ASML is looking at a 25% jump in sales this year. “This is driven by sales to memory customers, expected to grow about 50% from last year especially driven by DRAM, and sales to logic customers that are expected to grow about 15%,” ...

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Dr. Hiroshi Amano, who received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue LEDs, will give a talk on transformative electronics at this year’s IEDM at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco on December 2-6. Other IEDM plenary presenters include the CEO of AMD ...

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Intel has canned its wearables business, reports CNBC, a week after laying off IoT staff and ditching a raft of IoT products. Intel bought smartwatch maker Basis in 2014 but laid off 80% of its staff last November. Nowvthe rest of the wearables unit has gone. Wearable came under Intel’s New Technologies Group which is ...

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Thanks to the legal row with Apple, which means it is not getting royalty payments from Apple sub-contractors, and to a fine imposed by the Korea FTC and to a financial settlement of a legal dispute with Blackberry Qualcomm’s calendar Q2 results were down on last year. Revenues of $5.4 billion were 11% down on ...

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