Comments on: Welsh semiconductor design centre https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/welsh-semiconductor-design-centre-2025-03/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/wp-content/themes/ew/images/logo.gif Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/welsh-semiconductor-design-centre-2025-03/ 125 75 By: zeitghost https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/welsh-semiconductor-design-centre-2025-03/#comment-1534122 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:28:21 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=859968#comment-1534122 In reply to Mike Bryant.

Yup. It was a hi rel assembly plant producing stuff that is now pure unobtainium.

There was a design group too but all the processing took place in Santa Clara.

]]> By: Mike Bryant https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/welsh-semiconductor-design-centre-2025-03/#comment-1534086 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:43:45 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=859968#comment-1534086 In reply to zeitghost.

I can only think of Siliconix over there, which was doing transistors for UK military. Hardly world leading stuff.

No top semi guy is going to want to live in Cardiff – this should be in somewhere sensible like Cambridge, Edinburgh or Southampton.

]]> By: zeitghost https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/welsh-semiconductor-design-centre-2025-03/#comment-1534071 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:03:52 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=859968#comment-1534071 In reply to Mike Bryant.

I suppose Cardiff isn’t as far west as Swansea which used to have one or two back in the day 30 years ago.

]]> By: Mike Bryant https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/welsh-semiconductor-design-centre-2025-03/#comment-1534033 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:28:16 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=859968#comment-1534033 But are there 100 semiconductor quality graduates wanting to work in Wales in the next five years ?

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