President Trump will make the final decision on whether a China-backed private equity fund can buy Lattice. Lattice, whose management want to sell it to the China-backed private equity company Canyon Bridge, has filed an 8-k report with the US SEC stating that CFIUS, the committee which vets foreign investors, has ‘indicated’ that it will ...
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Distributor PEI-Genesis is to stock Harting’s harsh environment connectors in the European market after the two signed a new distribution agreement.
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The Government’s recently-formed Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult has a CEO – Stephen Doran, formerly director of operations at Raytheon UK. “Stephen Doran brings over 25 years of experience in the global electronics markets,” said a spokesman for the Catapult. “The insight generated by a career spent developing and delivering leading-edge products for the commercial and ...
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Stadium Group, the owner of Stadium Stontronics, has strengthened its position in the power business with the acquisition of PowerPax UK.
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A technology investment fund backed by Formula 1 team Williams has made its first investment, putting £500,000 into a smart gas grid monitoring business.
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A second handset manufacturer has stopped making royalty payments to Qualcomm following the example set by Apple. Qualcomm’s lawyer told the court in the Apple dispute: “One of the largest handset manufacturers in the world has now told us that they have been watching the Apple litigation and they are no longer paying us.” According ...
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Over half of the expected $80.9 billion 2017 capex spending will be for foundries (28%) and upgrades for NAND flash memory (24%), says IC Insights. With a projected 53% increase in 2017, and DRAM prices surging since Q3 2016, the DRAM/SRAM segment is expected to display the largest percentage growth in capital expenditures of the ...
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Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, is about to launch Robusta – an antenna for metal surfaces operating in the 1559-1609 MHz bands, and designed for tracking metal objects. Antenova’s antennas for metal surfaces employ a patented two layer technique with one layer electrically isolated from the other, so as to provide RF shielding to the ...
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Samsung has agreed a budget of $2.3 billion for the first stage of a second fab at Xi’an, in China. The fab, for NAND, is expected to cost $7 billion over the next three years. Samsung’s first fab at Xi’an was built in 2014. Xian Fab 2 will be coming on-line as the Chinese ramp ...
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