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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French ecology minister Nicholas Hulot says France will end the sale of internal combustion engine cars by 2040. The announcement follows Volvo’s announcement earlier this week that it will only make hybrid and electric cars from 2019. Over 95% of French cars have internal combustion engines with electric cars representing 1.2% of the total and ...

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Earlier today, at an earnings preview, Samsung said its Q2 profit was 72% up on Q2 2016’s $7 billion to reach $12 billion on sales which rose 18% to $52 billion. It is reported that $7 billion of the $12 billion quarterly profit came from memory representing 60% of the Q2 profit. Three years ago ...

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The 2016 semiconductor rankings by IPnest saw ARM at No.1 and Imagination at No.3 but, while ARM grew 20% last year, Imagination shrank 21%. ARM, with revenues of $1.65 billion had a  48% share of the $3.39 billion 2016 semiconductor IP market which grew  13%  on 2015. No.2 was Synopsys with $450 million revenues and ...

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The EU Competition Commissioner is in the warpath again, this time for companies which allegedly misled the EU during M&A regulatory procedures. GE is being accused of providing wrong information during its takeover of LM Wind Power. GE could be fined up to 1% of annual sales.   Merck and Sigma-Aldrich are under the cosh ...

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