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sureCore, the Sheffield low power SRAM IP company, has opened a design centre in Leuven, Belgium.

Q1 PC sales were 6.7% down on Q1 2014, says IDC. That’s a big year-on-year drop compared to Q4’s 2.4% drop and Q3’s 1.7% fall.

Rupert Baines, formerly v-p at picoChip and MindSpeed, has become CEO of UltraSOC which sells debug and analysis IP for IC design.

The semiconductor industry grew 7.9% last year to reach $340 billion, reports Gartner.

QuickLogic has added a 75μWatts ArcticLink 3 S2 LP sensor hub to its portfolio of low power programmable sensor hubs.  

Seeking funding through Indiegogo, Codie is a robot toy that teaches the principles of coding to children. Via a phone app, the robot is moved by simple drag-and-drop graphical instructions that include: variable, loops, branches and sub-routines. Sensors on-board measure distance, acceleration and direction. “Kids control the Codie robot with a touch-screen app featuring a visual coding language that organises ...

Semiconductor sales in February were up 6.7% on February 2014 at $27.8 billion but down 2.7% on January 2015, reports the SIA.

In 2014, the semiconductor materials market grew for the first time since 2011. Last year’s growth was 3% to reach $44.3 billion.

Linaro, the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture, today announced that Alibaba has joined Linaro as a Group Member of the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG).

Private equity has bought Philips’ LED and automotive group for $2.8 billion – a higher price than generally expected.