Finance

Stadium Power has opened an R&D centre in Norwich for the development of power products and it is looking to recruit engineers. Stadium is relocating its engineering team from its manufacturing facility in Diss to the design centre on the Norwich Research Park. The company is also planning to recruit engineers and to set-up graduate programmes. The R&D centre will also ...

Entries are invited for the annual ‘Create the Future’ design contest sponsored by Mouser and ADI.

Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment rose 18% to $37.5 billion last year, says SEMI.

Cambridge Consultants has agreed a finance facility of £6.2m from Barclays. According to the design company, this will finance expansion of the business and create space for an additional 100 staff at its Science Park headquarters. The company, which specialises in wireless communications, medical technology, consumer and industrial markets, has plans to increase capacity for almost 600 staff. “The company ...

Pickering Interfaces has seen a 50% improvement in export sales to China, and the Essex-based company acknowledges the support of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI). Pickering’s switching and sensor emulation products are used in high reliability sectors such as the automotive, military, aerospace and telecommunications industries. According to Pickering’s East Asian market development manager Shaun Fuller: “With less obvious potential for additional growth ...

The PC market will fall 4.9% from 308 million to 293 million this year says IDC.

Cambridge-based power electronics start-up Amantys has stopped trading. The company has struggled in the last 12 months to take its power semiconductor technology to global markets. This followed a venture funding of $8m in 2013. Amantys was formed in 2010 by former ARM executives and an academic from Cambridge University to develop a digital power platform for switching high current mosfets and ...

NXP is to buy Athena, the UK smart card specialist, to strengthen NXP’s offering in providing secure solutions across applications in IoT, Industry 4.0, Automotive and Identification.

Fab equipment spending increased almost 20% in 2014 and will rise 15% in 2015, says SEMI.

NXP Semiconductors’ $12bn acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor will create the largest supplier of microcontrollers in the market. This is good news for ARM, because more than half the combined MCU product ranges are designed around on the Cambridge-based processor company’s cores. NXP’s own LPC range of ARM Cortex-M series microcontrollers will sit along the Freescale Kinetis range of Cortex-M chips. ...