Microchip sets up design centre in Chennai to take 1,200 employees

Microchip is establishing a design centre in Chennai, India for 1,200 employees. The centre will focus on IC design, physical design, CAD, applications and software development. The company said that the centre aims to boost local chip design and embedded systems development. Microchip already has development centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad and currently has 1,800 employees ...

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Lords concerned by digital advertising.

The Chairman of the House of Lords Communications Committee has expressed concern about the effects of digital advertising by the tech giants. “The committee believes that digital markets pose significant challenges to competition regulators,” says Lord Gilbert of Panteg (pictured), “market power on the internet is concentrated in a small number of companies. These online ...

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Companies prepare to move production out of China

 A raft of  OEMs are looking at moving some of their production out of China, reports the Nikkei. The motivation is not only tariffs but the rising labour costs in China. Among companies planning such moves are Acer, Asustek, Lenovo, HP, Dell, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Amazon. Companies which have already moved production out of China ...

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