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5 days ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
It turns out that neither the water companies nor the data centres need to reveal the amount of water they use but change is on the way. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and growing UK pressure look as though they will succeed in requiring more data to be revealed. Both the datacentre operators and the water companies are concerned about the amount of data they may have to reveal because of the amount of water used by datacentres.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
‘Worldwide political turbulence is being enabled by semiconductors, Dave Bell, CEO of Intersil, told the 2011 Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
Since 1995, imec and TEL have partnered to drive advances in patterning, logic, memory, and 3D integration. Their long-standing collaboration has led to key breakthroughs in areas such as High NA EUV lithography, etching, wet processing and deposition. A standout achievement was the joint development of EUV resist coating track technology, which – thanks to its significantly improved defectivity control – has played a pivotal role in enabling the introduction of EUV technology into production.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
NAND has been affected by weaker-than-expected consumer demand and high inventory levels which prompted leading suppliers to reduce output through fab underutilisation and production cuts, and growth remains constrained. HBM is expected to nearly double revenue to $34 billion in 2025 and reach $98 billion by 2030 growing at a 33% CAGR.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
In April 2025, China electronics production three-month-average change versus a year ago (3/12) was 11.5%, up from 9.5% in January but below the average 3/12 of 12% in 2024. India showed the strongest growth, with 3/12 of 15% in March, up from 3% six months earlier. South Korea, Vietnam and Malaysia also showed accelerating 3/12 growth in April.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
Only 16% of respondents were in favour and only 19% of those who voted for Trump in the presidential election were in favour.. Republicans in general showed still-low support of 23%. A significant part of respondents also said they did not know what to think of the situation
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
I particularly enjoy having lunch at the Ritz – lovely dining, room superb service but the problem today is the company – I’m much being lunched by lobbyists for the water companies – probably the most unpopular industry in the country, Ed confides to his diary. It turns out that neither the water company nor the data centres need to reveal the amount of water they use but change could be on the way.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
The inventor did not enjoy socialising but his wife would invite people to formal dinner parties. Fortunately the house was large enough for him to keep an upstairs room for himself and his daughter recalls that, when these dinner parties occurred, “He would feign indigestion and skip dinner, being the only man to get indigestion before dinner!”He then took a route upstairs through the servants’ quarters to his eyrie for an evening of inventing and contemplation.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
Four fabs costing $46 billion are either underway or planned at TI’s Texas fab sites in Sherman (pictured) and Richardson which is being expanded. They are Fabs SM1 and SM2 (already underway) and SM3 and SM4 which are to be built later at an unspecified date.. Three fabs costing $15 billion will be built at TI’s Utah site at Lehi. Five of the seven fabs had been announced before. The two new additions are SM3 & SM4.
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1 week ago | 
electronicsweekly.com | David Manners
The 37 are all members of the pro-Beijing party – the KMT. Tsao told the Nikkei that the KMT is a Trojan horse bent onenabling the annexation of Taiwan by Beijing. The Yuan has 113 members of which 54 are KMT, 51 DPP and 8 TPP. The President of Taiwan is a DPP member who is finding his legislative programme obstructed by the KMT. Tsao reckons there’s a good chance of getting rid of between 8 and 20 KMT members out of the 37 undergoing a recall vote.
