July 20, 2016 // By Peter Clarke
EETimes Europe
Wolfson Microelectronics gone to Cirrus; CSR gone to Qualcomm; Imagination stumbles; UK votes to leave the European Union; ARM votes to become a subsidiary of a Japanese telecommunications company with IoT dreams of grandeur. Is there a steady-state theory of tech company creation and destruction or are we living in a big-bang technology world? And was the bang we just heard the door closing as UK exits hardware technology?