RF power demand – pushed by the technologies LDMOS, GaAs, GaN and SiGe and pulled by 5G base-station upgrades and small cell implementations – will command a  9.8% CAGR market between 2016 and 2022 growing from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion, says Yole.   “At Yole we estimate the market size of telecom infrastructure including base ...

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TSMC had June sales of $2.76 billion up on May’s $2.4 billion and up 3.4% on June 2016 sales of $2.7 billion. TSMC’s Jan-June 2017 sales were up 5.3% on Jan-June 2016 sales at $14.6 billion. TSMC’s Q2 revenues were $7 billion which was 8.6% down on Q1 2017 and 3.6% on Q2 2016. UMC’s ...

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ublox has a configurable LTE Cat M1/NB1 multimode module with worldwide coverage measuring 16mm x 26 mm offering both LTE Cat M1 and Cat NB1 in a single hardware package, as well as software-based configurability for all deployed bands. The SARAR410M02B allows customers to use a single hardware version globally with the ability to select ...

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Rambus is looking for a buyer reports Bloomberg. The litigious IP provider is said to have hired a financial adviser to find a buyer. Rambus shares have fallen 20% this year. The company has a market cap of $1.4 billion though, in 2000, it was valued at over $100 million. Rambus was founded in 1990 ...

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The wearables segment has taken a hit with the demise of Jawbone which raised $900 million. Jawbone made wearable devices tracking exercise and health data but never got any significant market share – staying below 5%. The cream of Silicon Valley’s VCs – Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins invested in the company. ...

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Imagination risks action from investors and regulators after Apple revealed that it told Imagination in 2015 that it was going to drop Imagination’s GPUs in favour of in-house designed Apple GPUs. Imagination did not make the news public until April 2017 when Imagination’s shares fell 70%, business units were put up for sale and, eventually, ...

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