Mannerisms

EV manufacturers are mostly aiming  to produce a vehicle in the country or region in which they want to sell it, and some are doing better than others in penetrating foreign markets as data from the  IEA shows. In general, most EVs produced in China, North America, the European Union and the APAC region are manufactured by companies from those countries ...

Quite clearly the UK has many of the technologies required to develop reconfigurable AI chips, so I have suggested to the PM that HMG put up a big prize – say £20 million – for the person, team or company who comes up with a prototype device, Ed confides to his diary With algorithmic progress overtaking hardware progress, reconfigurables are ...

“The age of point tools is over,” Aart de Geus, founder and CEO of Synopsys,  told Electronics Weekly in 2005, “We think we’re going to see a massive decrease in the importance of point tools.” De Geus said it took Synopsys two and a half years of “full focus effort” in 2004, 2003 and half of 2002 to get all ...

The US and China are buying less from China, says, the Council on Foreign Relations. Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand are exporting more goods but are having to import more from the US  to reduce the effects of the ‘reciprocal’ tariffs. Japan, which is richer than these countries and has more negotiating clout, is taking its time talking and is  not ...

87 years ago, the first job given to a new scientist at Dupont was researching refrigerants. After storing a gas at dry ice temperatures he found that the gas disappeared leaving a white powder which was heat resistant, corrosion resistant, chemically inert, with such low surface friction that most other substances would not stick to it.  Today it is found ...

Friends in high places can be a help in life and few people can boast higher placed friends than Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Huang is well connected to the leadership of both the US and China. According to the Nikkei, Huang shares a special link with China’s vp He Lifeng – they both speak Minnan which is a dialect of ...

At a dinner in Taiwan earlier this week, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan (pictured) said Intel wants to be humble. “We want to be humble and learn from the customers and listen to their feedback,” said Tan. Tan said he visited 1,500 customers in his first month as CEO of Cadence and wants to do the same at Intel, reports the ...

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top eight supply chain trends: Ambient Invisible Intelligence Enabled by ultra-low-cost, small smart tags and sensors, ambient invisible intelligence allows for large-scale, affordable tracking and sensing, providing real-time visibility into end-to-end supply chains. This technology is particularly useful for monitoring perishable goods and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations through enhanced traceability. Augmented ...

Moves to clip Nvidia’s wings are accelerating with China expecting to take a 40% share of its domestic market for AI ICs this year, reports TrendForce. Leading the charge in China are: Huawei’s Ascend series of AI ICs. Cambricon with its Siyuan MLU which it plans to ramp this year Alibaba’s T-Head with its Hanguang 800 inference chip. Baidu with ...

Australian airlines are to be compelled to carry flight recorders. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 15, 1961 The story continues The Minister for Civil Aviation, Senator Paltridge, said that he believed Australia would be the first country to require the recording of cockpit conversations and instrument readings in airliners. Mr. Justice Spicer, ...

Jensen Huang must feel extremely gratified by President Trump’s trip to the Middle East with his agreements to spend multi-tens of billions of dollars on massive data centres using Nvidia chips. It seems that Trump has accepted the argument, which Huang is alleged to have made to him, that if the US maintains its restrictions on the sale of the ...

At the top of  Western politicians’ minds is how to rein in the Russkies and the PM has been bending my ear for suggestions, Ed confides to his diary. He seems to think I am privy to the dark arts of cyber-skulduggery and can rattle Mr P. What Putin’s most afraid of seems to be the disapproval of the people ...

When Arm was just eight years old, its founding CEO, Sir Robin Saxby, said it would was becoming the world standard processor standard. “It’s the acceptance of the architecture – we’re becoming the global standard we expected to be,” ARM’s chairman, Saxby, told EW in 1998. In the first six months of that year, Arm’s licensees had shipped over 15 ...

Hallucinations, the errors which AI programmes make, are getting worse, according to the New York Times. The latest programmes from OpenAI Google and DeepSeek – so-called ‘reasoning’ systems – are generating more hallucinations than previous systems and no one knows why. Hallucination rates on a test devised by AI tool developer Vectara have risen with reasoning systems. DeepSeek’s reasoning system, ...

80 years ago a self-taught electrical engineer was building magnetrons when he noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. The observation spawned an invention that was to become ubiquitous in kitchens around the world and helped grow his company, where he was employee No.3, to last year’s revenues of $80 billion. Moral: There’s a message in many unexpected ...

If you could customise the characteristics of a friend would you create someone stimulating to be with, a clone of yourself, a PITA, a bore, or what? The internet, which is blamed for social isolation, is now  looking at providing people with chums. “I think people are going to want a system that knows them well and that kind of ...

Intel’s  betting record has not been too great recently. 30 years ago it made a very good – multi-billion dollar – bet on funding the development of EUV but, ten years, ago it made a bad bet on deciding not to adopt the technology when it was commercialised. What followed was trouble scaling its processes and TSMC, which was an ...

1. Elon Musk – Net Worth: $250 billion. Musk studied physics and engineering, and his ventures include Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink. 2. Bernard Arnault Net Worth $181 billion. Graduated with an enginering degree and now runs LVMH. 3.Larry Page Net Worth $162 billion Co-Founder of Google software enginner 4. Larry Ellison – Net Worth: $142 billion. Co-founder of Oracle Corporation, ...

More than two executive orders and memorandums have been issued every day during President Trump’s second presidency. 187 executive orders and memorandums were issued in his first 87 days in office. President Joe Biden counted only 235 in his first two years, while Trump issued 211 during this time in 2017 and 2018. A high number of executive orders  dealt ...

A NEW 3,000-SQ.-FT. LABORATORY devoted to proving the design and serviceability of silicon semiconductor devices has been established  by Ferranti Ltd., in their Gem Mill factory at Oldham, Lancashire. so, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 15, 1961 The story continues: A team of engineers is engaged in the production of general and special ...