Quantum computing startup attracts EDA pioneer as chair February 08, 2021 // By Peter Clarke
Quantum Motion Technology Ltd. (Oxford, England), a quantum computing startup, has appointed Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, as chairman.
Sangiovanni-Vincentelli – known as ASV – a professor at University of California, Berkeley, is renowned as a pioneer of the EDA industry having been a co-founder of both Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Synopsys Corp. He was recently the chair of UK company UltraSoC Ltd., which was sold in 2020 (see Siemens takes over UK chip-level analytics expert UltraSoc).
The appointment follows an £8 million round of fund raising that is intended to support the company in its aim of developing a fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture that is compatible with the CMOS manufacturing process.
California Governor Names 3 Key Tech Appointments
The forward-looking technology arm of the California Government Operations Agency has a new chief deputy director, a new deputy director of programs and a new senior engineer. by Dennis Noone, Techwire / January 27, 2021 Shutterstock/Uladzik Kryhin
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced three key appointments in the senior ranks of the Office of Digital Innovation (ODI), the forward-looking technology arm of the California Government Operations Agency (GovOps).
ODI was created in the summer of 2019 to “put users first, build interactively, and let data drive decisions”; to rethink and improve how California buys digital services; and to expand the use of common platforms, services and tools. Udaya Patnaik, its director, was appointed in May 2020.
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January 26, 2021
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The Huawei logo is seen at the IFA consumer technology fair, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Berlin, Germany, on September 3, 2020.
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China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is in early-stage talks to sell its premium smartphone brands P and Mate, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move that could see the company eventually exit from the high-end smartphone-making business.
The talks between the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker and a consortium led by Shanghai government-backed investment firms have been going on for months, the people said, declining to be identified as the discussions were confidential.
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(Reuters) - China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is in early-stage talks to sell its premium smartphone brands P and Mate, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move that could see the company eventually exit from the high-end smartphone-making business.
The talks between the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker and a consortium led by Shanghai government-backed investment firms have been going on for months, the people said, declining to be identified as the discussions were confidential.
Huawei started to internally explore the possibility of selling the brands as early as last September, according to one of the sources. The two sources were not privy to the valuation placed on the brands by Huawei.