It’s time to apply AI to the Civil Service and get some savings on governmental budgets, Ed confides to his diary, so today I called in the Permanent Secretary. Keep up with developments relating to ...

Gartner forecasts semiconductor revenue will grow 64% in 2026, with memory revenue expected to increase threefold amid memflation (see Table 1). Gartner analysts said that memflation is profound, but ...

SiFive has raised $400m in a Series G financing round to accelerate its datacentre efforts. Investors were Atreides Management, Apollo Global Management, Nvidia, Point72, Turion and T Rowe Price ...

Amazon is considering entering the semiconductor merchant market. The company would be the fourth biggest chip company in the ...

TSMC was the largest spender in 2025 with $40.9 billion in capex, 25% of the total. TSMC projects 2026 capex will be between ...

Silicon Motion is launching its SM8008, a PCIe Gen5 x4 NVMe (non-volatile memory express) enterprise SSD controller, designed for datacentre boot drives and power-sensitive enterprise storage ...

One year-old Aria Networks of Palo Alto has raised $125 million and has announced general availability of its AI-native ...

On 31 March Vector Photonics’ PCSELs were used to transmit data across the river Clyde from the Glasgow Science Centre to the Clydeside Distillery, using a system designed and built by Fraunhofer UK.

Murata has begun mass production of seven AEC-Q200-qualified MLCCs that claim to achieve the world’s largest capacitance for a given rated voltage and size supporting stable operation of in-vehicle ...

Schurter is releasing half pitch DIP switches for space-critical applications. The DTCD and DTCJ 1.27mm pitch switches are ultra-miniature SMT components. The company highlights their reduced ...

There have been 80,117 tech layoffs worldwide since the start of the year, says a report from Trading Platforms. Of these, 28,390 roles, roughly 35% of the global total, came from technology companies ...

The memory price surge has hit Raspberry Pi which has introduced three price rises in four months. The 16GB Pi 5 model gets a $100 hike, taking its retail price to $305. It originally cost $120, but a ...