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Harvard Engineering has been awarded with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, for International Trade. Based in West Yorkshire, Harvard design, development and manufactures lighting control products and LED drivers. “We are extremely pleased to have won such a prestigious award. International trade is an important and growing part of our business, and recognition with a Queen’s Award is a credit ...

Intel has squandered its manufacturing advantage when it comes to mobile.

EUV has so far cost $14 billion, reports Semiconductor Engineering.

Ten years ago, North America, Europe and Japan represented two-thirds of global electronic equipment production, says DECISION in a new report.

AOC Group has submitted a planning application for a 7,000m2 data centre at Queensway Business Park in Glenrothes Fife. The facility will be the first of its kind in the UK drawing its energy from a renewable source, claims AOC, with power coming from the largest biomass plant in the country located at Markinch in Fife. Queensway Data Centre will ...

Intel is charging customers about the same as Allwinner and Rockchip for tablet CPUs – $5 a pop, reports Digitimes. At that level they undercut MediaTek and Nvidia.

Intel says it saw a big slowdown in its mobile processor business in Q1. Revenues for its smartphone and tablet processors fell by 52% on the previous quarter to $156m. This was down 61% year-over-year. Intel’s biggest business sector is still PCs and this continued to fall to $7.9bn, down 8% sequentially, but only 1% lower than a year ago. The problem for Intel is that the ...

Record Store Day takes place in the UK on Saturday April 19, and the queues which are expected to form outside local record shops signal a revivial in vinyl record sales. Salford-based company, GPO says it has sold over 8,000 record turntables in the last year. GPO launched its first turntable in January last year, and it will soon have five models of record players. GPO ...

The photomask market was $3.1 billion in 2013 says SEMI, and is forecast to reach $3.3 billion in 2015.

Flower Technology, the Canadian start-up focused on the supply of ASIC mining solutions for scrypt-based cryptocurrencies, has partnered with EnSilica, a leading UK design house and provider of the eSi-RISC family of soft processor cores and associated encryption, communications and peripherals IP, for the development of the company’s rack-mounted, low power, high performance ASIC scrypt miners.