Notable & Newsworthy

July 2016

Machinery export scenarios

UK’s struggling machinery equipment market must now face Brexit straight-on

Rolando Campos, senior data analyst, IHS Markit

IHS Markit Economics and Country Risk predicts that Brexit will reduce global GDP growth in 2017, but the hardest hit will be the United Kingdom, then Europe (including Spain, Germany, France and Poland) – and as far-away as Singapore and Brazil. Even before Brexit, IHS Markit predicted that U.K. machinery pr

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07/29/2016

NASBIS is made of a material called aerogel

Panasonic launches industry-thinnest aerogel thermal insulation solution

Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe has recently unveiled a thermal insulation sheet which is the thinnest insulation solution currently available on the market. The NASBIS (Nano Silica Balloon Insulation Sheet) high-performance thermal insulation sheet comes with a thickness of 50μm, 100 μm, 50

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07/26/2016

Analog Devices buys Linear Tech in cash and stock deal

Liana Baker, Reuters

Analog Devices said it would buy fellow chipmaker Linear Technology for about $14.8 billion, the latest deal in a wave of consolidation that has swept the semiconductor industry in the past two years. The deal comes on the heels of SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) $32 billion acquisition of British chip designer ARM

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07/26/2016

Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business

Verizon Communications and Yahoo! announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Yahoo’s operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments. Yahoo informs, connects and entertains a global audience of more than 1 bi

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07/25/2016

Infineon to buy Wolfspeed for $850 million

Infineon Technologies and Cree announced that Infineon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (“Wolfspeed”) of Cree. The deal also includes the related SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. The purchase price for this planned all-cash transaction is

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07/14/2016

Daido Steel and Honda Motor became the world’s first companies to achieve practical application of a hot deformed neodymium magnet containing no heavy rare earth

Honda codevelops first hybrid car motor free of heavy rare earth metals

Daido Steel and Honda Motor became the world’s first companies to achieve practical application of a hot deformed neodymium magnet containing no heavy rare earth and yet with high heat resistance properties and high magnetic performance required for the use in the driving motor of a hybrid vehicle. This heavy ra

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07/13/2016

GaN Systems Geoff Haynes Future Power Challenge Award Ceremony

Left to right: Mark Johnson, Paul Mitcheson, Sam Aldhaher, Dave Yates, Juan Manuel Arteaga Saenz, George Khelis, Geoff Haynes, Girvan Patterson.

Imperial College London wins GaN Systems Geoff Haynes Future Power Challenge

At a ceremony held at the EPSRC Centre for Power Electronics Annual Conference 2016 in Nottingham, England, a post-graduate team from Imperial College London received the £2,000 prize for winning the first, annual GaN Systems Geoff Haynes Future Power Challenge. Sponsored by GaN Systems, the competition was op

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07/07/2016