Elections rated highly as recording the biggest the growth in search terms on Google led by elections in the  US, India and UK. The second  biggest growth search term compared to 2003 was “excessive heat”. As of November, 2024 was on track to be the warmest year on record. On the music scene, Sean “Diddy” Combs was the biggest growing ...

Ukraine is to become one of the first countries in the world to get a satellite-to-smartphone service after an agreement was signed between Elon Musk and Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar, reports Reuters. Satellites in Musk’s Starlink constellation, equipped with modems that function like cellphone towers, will beam signals from space to handsets. Earlier this year Starlink launched its first satellites equipped ...

The Korean government has brought forward by three and a half years the construction of a massive new semiconductor complex called the Yongin Semiconductor National Industrial Complex. Instead of starting construction in 2029, construction will now start in 2026. Reports say the government was spurred into action to accelerate the project by the examples of the US. Chips Act and ...

The White House has issued a Quadrennial Supply Chain Review looking at its measures to protect US industry. “On a level playing field, American businesses and workers can compete and win,” says the Review, “however, our strategic competitors are continuing to engage in non-market policies and practices (NMPP) that undercut our collective resilience—directing their systems to target key industries for ...

Trident Techlabs of India is to buy 60% of  Sivaltech Group. Sivaltech specialises in semiconductor design and related technologies with locations in the US and India. The acquisition is to strengthen Techlabs’ presence in the semiconductor services market. Trident Techlabs’ subsidiary,Techlabs Semiconductor,  and Sivaltech will focus on semiconductor design services, packaging solutions, testing and verification, process optimisation, and end-to-end design ...

In the last five years, the production of digital computers in Britain has written from 15 to more than 100 machines annually. So 63 years ago started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25, 1961. The story continues: At the same time, the number of major companies in the market has risen from 3 to 14; only eight ...

80% of respondents to an extensive Ipsos survey predict that the world will continue to warm up. Ipsos asked more than 23,700 people across 33 countries about their predictions for the coming year. The belief in continued warming was most widespread in Indonesia (91 percent), the Philippines (89 percent) and Malaysia (88 percent). In a similar vein, more than seven ...

Softbank is out to challenge Nvidia in chips to train and run AI software programmes in a project called Izanagi which could see investment of $100 billion. The plan is to have prototype Izanagi processors in summer 2025 and to be shipping in volume in 2026, reports Bloomberg. Izanagi (pictured) is Japan’s God of creation. Central to the scheme are ...

Raspberry Pi Holdings  was worth nearly £1.3 billion when markets closed last week as the shares hit 658p up from its July IPO listing price of 280. SW Investment Management of the US been reported as a major buyer behind a doubling of the shares from 327p in November. The largest shareholders are the Raspberry Pi Foundation with 49% of ...

TSMC has started volume production  at its first Japanese fab. The processes are reported to be 22/28 nm and 12/16nm nodes and capacity is said to be 55k wpm. The fab is expected to be able to run processes down to 6nm, The first products are said to be image sensors and automotive ICs for Sony and Denso. The fab, ...