Nexperia has hired US and UK legal counsel to challenge the British government’s decision to block the takeover of the Newport Wafer Fab in Wales. In addition to British barrister Lord Pannick, the ...

After graduating from a technical university in northern Russia, I started as a design engineer at a US semiconductor company in Saint Petersburg ten years ago. I worked on IP development, ...

Bits&Chips strengthens the high tech ecosystem in the Netherlands and Belgium and makes it healthier by supplying independent knowledge and information. Bits&Chips focuses on news and trends in ...

Universities may be able to tap into a public R&D investment fund sooner than they think, Education minister Ingrid van Engelshoven told Eindhovens Dagblad. Previously, management from Eindhoven ...

Each question we seek to answer and each variable we look to track over time needs specific data to be collected from systems in the field. One of the typical patterns I experience a lot when working ...

A new type of optical switching device only needs a single photon to change state. Unfortunately, it also ignores most incoming photons. It’s still a long way from a light-based computer, but ...

Intel is in talks to acquire Globalfoundries for roughly 30 billion dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports based on anonymous sources. A spokesperson for Globalfoundries denied that negotiations are ...

After being pressured by Members of Parliament, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of Nexperia’s purchase of a Welsh wafer fab on security grounds. The British government will ...

The 17,6 percent decline of the IC market in the first quarter of this year requires an “abnormally strong” second half to avoid a full-year 2019 double-digit market decline, IC Insights warns. The Q4 ...

With a response time of a millisecond, a 5G network makes it possible to perform advanced control tasks, hosting computing power in the cloud. Very attractive for industrial automation, but it’s far ...

Bits&Chips strengthens the high tech ecosystem in the Netherlands and Belgium and makes it healthier by supplying independent knowledge and information. Bits&Chips focuses on news and trends in ...

In Q1 2019, Melexis recorded sales of 116.5 million euros, the Ieper-based automotive semiconductor company reports. This is a 16-percent decrease compared to the same period last year and an ...