➀ Taiwan's chip industry took 50 years of hard work to build, according to Wu Cheng-wen, head of Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council;

➁ Honda and Nissan cancelled their merger talks due to significant differences in expectations;

➂ Intel is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake in its FPGA unit Altera to Silverlake Partners.

➀ University College London presented a 30MHz impedance spectroscopy IC at ISSCC;

➁ The chip offers a 92.7dB signal-to-noise ratio and 99.6% accuracy;

➂ It consumes only 3.18mW and uses a programmable picosecond resolution delay-locked clock generator.

➀ A session at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference focused on energy harvesting ICs;

➁ Delft University of Technology and Fudan University presented an 'inductor-less capacitor-less' IC that connects to both electromagnetic and piezoelectric harvesters;

➂ The IC uses the inductance of the electromagnetic harvester for energy extraction and storage.