SEMI’s December Billings Report shows billings figure is 8.5% higher than the final November 2018 level of $1.94 billion, but 12.1% lower than the December 2017 billings level of $2.40 billion. “December billings of North American equipment manufacturers ended 2018 on a positive note,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Spending for logic and foundry ...
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Intel had a Q4 net profit of $5.2 billion on revenues of $18.66 billion For the full year, profit was $21.5 billion on revenue of $70.8 billion. Intel says Q4 revenue was below its October expectations due to a mix of weaker modem demand, slowdown in China, cloud customers absorbing capacity, and the weakening NAND ...
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Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including ICs and optoelectronics, sensors, and discrete (O-S-D) devices grew 10% in 2018 and surpassed the one trillion unit mark for the first time, says IC Insights. As shown in Figure 1, semiconductor unit shipments climbed to 1,068.2 billion units in 2018 and are expected to climb to 1,142.6 billion in ...
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The quest for lightweight, compact batteries in power supplies and in electric vehicle is unrelenting, but researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen, have developed a flexible and thin bipolar plate material for batteries which do not require sealing, which makes them vulnerable to leakage, and which can ...
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Ahead of the Hannover Fair (1 to 5 April 2019), Omron announced that it is collaborating with Taiwanese robotic company, Techman, to develop cobots (collaborative robots) with integrated vision systems. Designed as an autonomous system, the TM cobot will combine sensors and a vision system allowing it to judge pieces on production lines and which ...
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Tough flexible piezoelectric materials can be 3D printed to convert movement, impact and stress to electrical energy for monitoring or energy harvesting, according to Virginia Tech. The materials are elastomeric and, via a set of printable topologies, the technique allows the creation of materials generating electric charge in response to incoming forces and vibrations from ...
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An innovation hub at the University of Warwick will research future automotive supply chains, the challenges of vehicle electrification, and using and reusing resources for as long as possible. It is a partnership between WMG, a University department once known as the Warwick Manufacturing Group, and European automotive logistics firm Gefco. GEFCO today, and is ...
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Male Japanese tree frogs communicate with sound, using an internally orchestrated system that lets information get through while also permitting collective choruses and time to rest, according to researchers from Osaka University and University of Tsukuba, and borrowing the technique could reduce packet collisions and power consumption in data networks. The team listened to calling ...
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In this current period of economic uncertainty, stoked by international trade deals and the spectre of Brexit, Jurgen Von Hollen has some words of encouragement. He believes that at a time when CEOs cannot forecast 12mths ahead, the only constant is a need for a company to be flexible and creative, and this can be ...
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The Prince of Wales’ Prince’s Trust has stopped accepting donations from Huawei as part of the global shunning of the Chinese telecom maker. “At present, we are not accepting new donations from Huawei in light of public concerns,” says the Trust, “future donations will continue to be reviewed by our Ethical Fundraising Committee.” The Trust ...
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