Intel has put back its $100 billion Ohio chip project until 2030 or 2031. The first fab in the multi-fab project will not be completed until 2030. It had been due to start this year. The completion of the second Ohio fab has been put back to 2031 with first silicon in 2032. Ohio is the  second multi-fab complex which ...

The 2006 Electronica CEO Forum occurred shortly after private equity companies KKR and Blackstone had bought out NXP and and Freescale so it was natural that the panellists should address the issue: Are they short-term investors or valued partners? It had been suggested that Freescale’s purchasers saw a way to make their money back by taking Freescale fabless, but Denis ...

Happy Birthday, indeed, to the super successful Raspberry Pi board, the first of which was was officially launched at the end of February 2012.

The VITA 100 standard will build on VPX’s legacy but “leapfrog” to meet increased processing and power demands. Providing a progress update, VITA 100 chair Steve Devore (pictured), described it is a continuation of VPX, supporting evolving power and data processing demands. One requirement is to double the density of today’s VPX connectors while maintaining the maximum current connector length. ...

X-Fab and and Attosemi, the OPT IP vendor, have demo-ed the latest version of Attopsemi’s I-fuse S3 OTP on X-FAB’s XH018 process. This  gives X-FAB customers greater flexibility in choosing the optimal OTP solution for their designs. Following a previous announcement of the demonstration and availability of the I-fuse S3 OTP based on 3.3V devices, this new design uses 1.8V devices – ...

90.6 million cars will be sold this year – 2.4% more than last year –  of which  China will account for the largest share at 29%, followed by the US at 18% and Western Europe at 15%, says TrendForce,. However the 25% Trump tariff on imported cars could lead to a 3% decline in new car sales in the US ...

 PHY Wireless, the cellular location specialist, and Nordic Semiconductor have hooked up to integrate PHY’s location technology with Nordic’s nRF9151 SiP module. This collaboration leverages 3GPP-standardised signalling to deliver  location  data with PHY’s on-device observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) product. To validate the tech, PHY  and Nordic are conducting  real-world trials across three continents in partnership with several major ...

Built with £250,000 of investment, Glasgow University has opened a state-of-the-art magnetism lab for medical magnetics research. Part of the James Watt School of Engineering, the facility is designed to eliminate magnetic interference from any external sources. For example, nearby electronics and even the Earth’s magnetic field. And the MuRoom within the lab will enable researchers to detect extremely weak ...

16,000 US federal employees have been sacked under presidential executive orders, reckons Statista, which is in addition to the  75,000 federal employees who took buyouts. Both numbers combined make up less than 4% of the 2.4 million-strong non-military and non-postal federal workforce. 6,700 employees at the US Internal Revenue Service who are on probation  are likely to be fired  under ...

Rohm has formerly announced the TOLL-packaged 650V GaN hemts that Electronics Weekly featured in a GaN driving trechnology article last week. To get the devices, called GNP2070TD-Z, into the increasingly popular ~12 x 10 x 2.4mm TOLL (TO-lead-less) package, which is finding use in high power industrial and automotive equipment, Rohm chose to out-source the back-end to ATX Semiconductor (Weihai) ...