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Power outages across Texas caused by the most recent cold front have shut down several semiconductor chipmakers’ plants clustered around Austin.  These chipmakers include  Samsung Electronics, NXP, and Infineon.  These impacts are adding further disruption to  a supply chain that has already been falling short…

On the evening of the Saturday, February 13, 2021,  a large earthquake shook a broad area across eastern Japan with its epicenter off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.  According to the National Meteorological Agency, the 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s east coast at 11:07…

In 2020 we saw a race ensue as technology companies threw in their hat in an effort to aid in the fight against COVID-19.  Some pursuing new product development and some modifying attributes of current products to make applicable to the need.  None the less,…

Analog Devices has announced that changing business needs will require the company to permanently close its facility in Milpitas, California on May 28, 2021. In 2016, Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) acquired Linear Technology which included four of their wafer fabs.  It is there he plan…

On Jan 13, 2021  Qualcomm Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NUVIA  for approximately $ 1.4 billion US dollars before working capital and other adjustments.  The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory…

January 14 2021, the Department of Defense released the names of additional “Communist Chinese military companies” operating directly or indirectly in the United States in accordance with the statutory requirement of Section 1237 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999, as amended. …