Chips & Humans

Someone somewhere seems to have got an almighty rocket up the fundamental orifice. A month ago, on March 7, the Washington political news site, The Hill, published an article entitled ‘DEI killed the Chips Act’  alleging that diversity and inclusion issues were preventing Chips Act money being disbursed to major chipmakers. “The world’s best chipmakers are tired of being pawns ...

We are assailed by studies telling us that robots and AI will put us out of work, but a lot of US workers look forward to the day when sone dreary tasks will be done by tech. According to Gartner, 70% of U.S. workers would like to utilise AI for their jobs to some degree. Some respondents named some tasks ...

High-Tech Harassment may have to go onto the Statute Book as an offence if a capability unveiled at the Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference becomes prevalent. In Las Vegas a couple of Kiwi hackers showed how they’d hacked a vibrator. This vibrator is made by a company called Standard Innovation and is branded We-Vibe 4. We-Vibe 4’s USP is ...

A positive for the semiconductor industry this year is that it is the industry with the least correlation with the oil price, says Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank in its 2015 Semiconductor Playbook.

Black Friday seems like a con to me. Or maybe it’s the British way of doing it.

The problem of people forgetting to take medication – unhappily a fate which awaits many of us – could be alleviated by MicroCHIPS of Lexington, Massachusetts.

Medical electronics is expected to regain strength in the next three years after slowing since 2010 due to the weak global economy and efforts to curb healthcare costs in the U.S. and Europe, says IC Insights.

Following last month’s $765 million payment paid out by America’s National Football League (NFL) to 4,200 retired players suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) players are to wear head impact monitoring patches developed by X2Biosystems using sensors from STMicroelectronics.

The semiconductor industry’s top CEO, Morris Chang, says he’ll retire next year. It’s the second time Chang has retired. In 2005 Chang announced he was stepping down as TSMC’s boss but he came back in 2009 at a time of crisis.

Sic transit gloria Apple, but not the glory of Jobs.