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Tokyo Electron Announces 40% Increase in Starting Salaries
Tokyo Electron, a leading semiconductor manufacturing company, has announced a significant increase in the salary for new recruits. Graduates will now receive $2161 a month, while those with advanced degrees will receive $2270. This is a substantial increase compared to the average...
India Surpasses China in IPO Numbers
Indian startups are increasingly opting for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), with some Indian exchanges surpassing their Chinese counterparts in terms of IPO numbers. According to a report by EY (Ernst & Young), in 2023, Mumbai's two stock exchanges, the National Stock Exchange...
Perovskite Lasers: The Future of Laser Technology?
Inorganic perovskite materials have been found to be easy to prepare and process, making them suitable for creating lasers, according to research conducted at Pusan National University.The specific perovskite material of interest is CsPbBr3, which needed to be formed into "nano-sheets" within...
Intel and Investor Group Join Forces to Launch GenAI Software Company
Intel, along with a group of investors including DigitalBridge, Fin Capital, Mindset Ventures, Communitas Capital, GiantLeap Capital, GS Futures, and Zain Group, has joined forces to create Articul8. This new venture aims to provide enterprise customers with a comprehensive, secure, and vertically-optimized...
Gender Bias: Female-Led Firms Struggle to Secure Funding
Technology startups founded by women are receiving a mere 3.5% of equity funding in the first half of 2023, while male-led companies are securing a staggering 73% of the funding, according to recent data. Although there are no specific figures available for...
Meet Tom Bowman: BT’s Rising Star in EW BrightSparks 2023
Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today.Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we highlight Tom Bowman, an Apprentice...
DARPA’s LunA-10 Study Paves Way for Lunar Infrastructure Boom
Gitai, Honeybee Robotics, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Space, and SpaceX are among the 14 companies chosen by DARPA for the sponsored "LunA-10" project. This project aims to develop commercial lunar infrastructure.The selected companies have agreed to collaborate over a seven-month study to design...
NGK Announces $106m Investment in Development Site
NGK Insulators, a leading company in ceramic technologies, has announced a significant investment of $106 million in a Co-Creation Centre and a Carbon Neutrality (CN)-Related Product Development Area. The new facilities, called the Atsuta site, will be located at NGK's head office...
SigmaStar Plans $4.2bn IPO to Fuel Growth
Six-year-old SigmaStar Technology, a subsidiary of MediaTek based in Xiamen, China, is planning to raise $424 million through an initial public offering (IPO) on the ChiNext market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The company is targeting a valuation of $4.2 billion, as...
Ceva Launches WiFi 7 IP for Immediate Availability
Ceva, a leading provider of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, has announced the availability of its RivieraWaves Wi-Fi 7 IP platform for Access Point applications. This platform leverages the latest advanced features of the IEEE 802.11be standard, making it ideal for...
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