A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled it off. The improbable odyssey began April 1, 1976, when a then-shaggy Steve Jobs and his gadget-tinkering friend Steve Wozniak signed a two-page partnership document that creat...

The University of Sherbrooke has announced the creation of the Research Chair in Heterogeneous Chip Integration for High-Performance Computing. This initiative builds on more than 15 years of successful collaboration between UdeS, the Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT), the MiQro Innovation Collaboration Centre (C2MI), and IBM Canada.

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Molex, global electronics provider of connectivity solutions, has completed the acquisition of Smiths Interconnect, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based Smiths Group plc. Smiths Interconnect brings a diverse portfolio of complementary products and advantaged capabilities in ruggedized custom connectors, contacts, RF components and optical ...

TDK Corp. announced that TDK will start manufacturing advanced sensors for various Apple products in the US. Built on a partnership spanning more than 30 years with Apple, this initiative will allow both companies to reinforce its advanced sensors manufacturing capabilities via Japan–U.S. collaboration and, by producing at U.S. facilities, contribute to a more reliable sensor...

Flex Ltd., Austin TX-based EMS provider, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Electrical Power Products Inc. (EP2), provider sof engineered-to-order electrical power control and protection systems. The all-cash transaction is valued at approximately $1.1 billion, and is expected to be accretive to adjusted EPS in the first full fiscal year after close.