The EU has come up with three ways to tax the US tech giants: a tax on sales; a levy on ads; a withholding tax on payments to the companies. The EU is now looking at imposing one of these three options unilaterally instead of in agreement with other countries. “The EU must prepare to ...

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The SEMI billings report for August showed sales of $2.18 billion which was 3.9% down on July’s $2.27 billion and 27.7% better  than the August 2016 level if $1.71 billion.   “Equipment billings in August declined relative to July, signaling a pause in this year’s extraordinary growth,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI, ...

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Google is paying HTC $1.1 billion for its IP and and for the transfer of HTC employees working on the Google Pixel phone. About half HTC’s R&D staff – about 2000 people – will move across to Google. HTC will continue to make its own phones and the Vive VR system. HTC has been struggling ...

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Intel has delayed its 10nm processor Cannon Lake for the third time, reports Digitimes, because of 10nm production problems. The new date for Cannon Lake is now the end of next year. Cannon lake was originally scheduled for last year. The reasons cited are delays with its 10nm process. Yesterday, in Beijing,  Intel said its ...

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It is reported that Toshiba has chosen the Bain consortium tobuy its chip business. This has been reported before but Toshiba has had to back-track on the choice of Bain in theface of legal objections from jv partner Western Digital. The Bain geoup contains Hynix, Apple, Kingston, Dell, INCJ, DBJ and some presence from Toshiva ...

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Globalfoundries  and Soitec today announced that they have entered into a five-year agreement to ensure the volume supply of FD-SOI wafers. The agreement, which is effective immediately, builds on the existing relationship between the companies and guarantees wafer supply for GF’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology platform. “Globalfoundriesis delivering industry leading ultra-low power, performance-on-demand FD-SOI solutions ...

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In 2017, the 7% increase in the total pure-play foundry market is forecast to be almost entirely due to an 18% jump in <40nm feature size device sales, says IC Insights. Although expected to represent 60% of total pure-play foundry sales in 2017, the ≥40nm pure-play IC foundry market is forecast to be up only ...

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  Students from sixteen schools and colleges across Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and Calderdale are getting an introduction to technology from Premier Farnell. The Premier Farnell Technology Challenge aims to raise aspirations and help young people aged 16 – 18 years explore careers in digital and tech, an industry which is set to grow by 15% ...

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SEMI and SAE International, the association for the  automotive and aerospace industries, haveforned a partnership to provide their members with insights and access to important markets. The partnership will include information-sharing, presentation opportunities, and branding and exposition opportunities for members from both organizations. SEMI and SAE are creating forums for raising awareness of the challenges ...

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