Finance

Broadcom is pulling out of baseband processors.

Royalties paid by smartphone makers to license patents are costing almost the same as the BOM, says a report written by Intel’s vp and associate general counsel Ann Armstrong and two private practice lawyers.

TSMC is to spend $1.8 billion on R&D this year. Last year it spent $1.6 billion.

Knowing the UK’s history of failing to exploit its scientific discoveries, the government is determined to keep the UK’s lead in quantum navigation research, and to aid its translation into commercial gain.  products.  In recognition of the importance of quantum technologies, the Government’s 2013 Autumn Statement included £270m over five years to accelerate the translation of quantum science into products ...

Today MicroSemi  launches into MMIC with 16 chips spanning DC-40GHz and includes wideband amplifier, low noise amplifier and switch products designed for the defence, communications, instrumentation and aerospace industries using GaAs and GaN processes.

ARM says it is to acquire Duolog Technologies, a chip design integrator. The  deal covers that part of ARM’s processor business which supplies complex system IP including debug and trace IP. In particular this will address ARM’s CoreLink Interconnect and Controllers and CoreSight debug and trace tools. Duolog’s chip design platofrm is called Socrates and this configures IP in a standardised way for importing into EDA tools to ...

DelfMEMS, a French start-up developing RF MEMS switching devices, has secured €5.4m ($7.4m) in round C funding. The company said it will use the funding  “to support the company’s growth in the next generation, wireless front-end modules for mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets that need multi-standard, multi-mode mobile telephony”. DelfMEMS IP portfolio includes seven key patents. “The switch ...

There was a massive rise in venture capital investment in the UK and Ireland in Q1, says Ascendant, the technology-focused investment house.

Toshiba intends to sample its 3D structured NAND flash product this year and have it in production in the second half of its 2015 financial year. Since Toshiba’s financial year runs to the end of March 2016, the statement gives it almost two years grace.

BT and Neul are to set up an IoT network in Milton Keynes. The project will demonstrate the ability of a city-wide M2M infrastructure to cope with a large number of static and mobile sensors.