Scottish tech firm plans growth and recruitment

The head of a Scottish tech firm is predicting a period of sustained growth and more highly skilled jobs in the region. John Spence, managing director of Ichor Systems, said the semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier is planning to expand its Lanarkshire-based activities into new markets in the wider engineering sector. Company turnover is up 15% ...

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Imagination secures big smartphone design-in with MediaTek

Imagination Technologies has secured an important design-in for its MIPS processor technology with MediaTek. Crucially this takes MIPS into high-volume smartphone modems. The mobile phone chipset firm has adopted the multi-threaded MIPS I-class CPU for smartphone LTE modems. The mobile device from MediaTek featuring MIPS technology is the latest MT6799 Helio X30 processor which uses ...

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Gate drive PSU aimed at SiC mosfets

Recom is aiming at powering silicon carbite mosfet gate drives with its latest 2W dc-dc converters. “High-frequency and high-voltage switching are the main challenges of driving SiC mosfets,” said the firm. “A typical DC/DC isolation voltage should normally be at least twice the working voltage, but the high ambient temperature and fast switching edges generated ...

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Mouser boosts IoT range with Digi XBee embedded modem range

Mouser has added to its IoT-focused product line after starting to stock the Digi XBee Cellular 3G global embedded modem. According to the distributor, the modem is designed to help OEMs avoid time-consuming and expensive FCC and PTCRB end-device certifications and it enables engineers to quickly and easily integrate 3G (HSPA/GSM) with 2G fallback connectivity ...

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Hype Cycle for digital workplace

Gartner has come up with its Hype Cycle for the Digital Workplace:   What this boils down to is: 1. Technologies impacting in 2-5 years Augmented data discovery – drawing relevant and useful conclusions from big datasets. Personal analytics – finding relevant data for an individual such as health, financial and shopping data. 2. Technologies ...

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EUV finally makes it

With the achievement of a 250W light source, ASML is now shipping 100 wafer per hour EUV machines and  expects to go to 125wph later this year. Next year, the plan is to go higher. So, after a tortured development period, EUV enters the production process at 7nm. GloFo and TSMC are expected to insert ...

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Applied has record quarter; expects to beat it in Q4.

Applied Materials, 50 years old in November, had a record Q3 with y-o-y sales up 33% at $3.74 billion for a net profit of $925 million. For Q4, Applied expects revenues of $3.85 billion to $4 billion. Applied generated $1.37 billion cash in Q3. Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales constituted $2.5 billion of the total. Of ...

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ThoughtSpot funding reaches $160m

Five year-old Palo Alto start-up ThoughtSpot has just raised another $60 million taking its total funding to date to $160 million. The company says its technology takes the place of using analysts to investigate markets. The company’s search technology takes company data and produces conclusions from it such as potential customer profiles and projected sales ...

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