Premier Farnell has seen its Internet business jump by 32 per cent in first three months of the year

So how’s Lenovo doing two years on from its purchase of IBM’s PC division? Contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy that everything China touches turns to gold, it seems that Lenovo is struggling to find growth and profit just like everyone else in the PC business.

You can not blame the private equity funds for bad decisions, but you can blame the managements which sell out to them, according to John Daane, chairman, president and CEO of Altera. “It’s not the investment people that make the bad decisions, it’s the boards of the companies which make the bad decisions by deciding to sell,” said Daane. According ...

Surrey NanoSystems is making what it believes is the most versatile research lab growth tool for carbon nanotube fabrication ever produced

Is the industry consolidating or de-consolidating? Recently I had a discussion on the topic with John Daane, CEO of Altera.

BTG received $44m in semiconductor licensing deals last year and is looking for more. This business comes even though technology licensing firm is de-emphasising the semiconductor side of its operations

A Bristol start-up has signed a commercial deal which will see its low power optical fibre comms technology used in mobile phones, camcorders and laptops. Nanotech Semiconductor is a fabless chip company which has signed joint development agreements with two big name manufacturers to use its CMOS transceiver technology for plastic optical fibre links carrying a data rate of 1.25Gbit/s. Nanotech’s ...

Ulrich Schumacher, who was the first CEO of Infineon Technologies when it spun out of Siemens, tells an amusing yarn of his days as a marketing guy at Siemens Semiconductors.

Synopsys and Zuken have teamed up to develop an integrated and printed circuit board (PCB) design and simulation tool

Thorn Lighting in County Durham is leading a project to develop OLED materials and device architectures for large area white lighting applications which could replace fluorescent tubes