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Intel to cut IoT jobs

Intel is laying off people in its IoT group following its recent cuts to three of its IoT products – the Joule, Edison and Galileo boards 97 jobs are to be lost in Santa Clara and up to 40 more in Leixlip, Ireland. IoT accounts for less than 5% of Intel’s sales. The group had ...

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Semiconductor Golden Age Coming, says Jha

A coming golden age for semiconductors is forecast by Sanjay Jha, CEO of Globalfoundries, reports Digitimes. The next decade will see robust IC demand from datacentres and AI, says Jha. That will be met by GloFo’s 7nm finfet process aimed at mobile processors, cloud servers and networking infrastructure due to launch in H1 2018 with ...

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Renesas claims lowest power SRAM

Renesas claims the lowest standby power for embedded SRAM of 13.7 nW/Mbit with a 1.84 ns read speed with Implementing silicon on thin BOX (SOTB) 65nm circuit technology. The technology switches dynamically with low power overhead between active operation in which the CPU core performs read and write operations of the embedded SRAM, and the ...

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Suspicions grow over Hynix role in Toshiba bid

As suspected, Hynix’ presence in the preferred bidder consortium for Toshiba is not as a simple loan provider, as claimed, but is to gain a foothold into obaining an equity position in Toshiba via a convertible bond holding. This, of course, will lead to regulatory attention for the bid because Hynix is a competitor to ...

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EC to empower anti-Google law-suits

Not content with slapping a $2.4 billion fine on Google, the EU competition commissioner is urging companies to sue the company. Google was found guilty of skewing the results of searches to favour its own shopping price comparison site over others. Margrethe Vestager, the EC’s anti-trust chief, says she will shortly publish a report on ...

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The Estonian Option

Estonia is offering an answer to Brexit. If we’re out of the single market and customs union in March 2019 then UK companies wanting to continue trading with the EU can do it by paying €100 to Estonia for EU eResidency. The Estonian option gives the company all the benefits of being in a country ...

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Hackers target energy companies

Energy companies, including nuclear energy companies, are likely to come under hacking attack warns the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security. The agencies have detected attempts by hacker to harvest access information to electricity providers. “Historically, cyber actors have strategically targeted the energy sector with various goals ranging from cyber espionage to the ability ...

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Glaxo turns to AI specialist Exscientia for new drug development

GSK has signed up Exscientia of Dundee to provide AI technology to develop new drugs. If targets are met, Exscientia will receive $43 million from the deal, ‘We are the first company to automate drug design,’ says Exscientia. Exscientia claims to be able to identify new opportunities for new drugs in around a quarter of ...

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