Korea will invest $45.8 billion in chip and display manufacturing by 2024, reports The Korea Herald. Eleven CEOs of chip and display manufacturing companies, including Kwon Oh-hyun, vice chairman and CEO of the device solutions business of Samsung Electronics, Park Sung-woo, chairman and CEO of Hynix recently met Paik Un-gyu, Korea’s minister of trade, industry ...
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Intel’s CFO Bob Swan has a plan to double Intel’s market cap to $300 billion and double its eps from $2.21 to $4 by 2021, reports The Oregonian. Datacentre and memory are the areas which will propel this growth, according to Swan. The growth in market cap will also be driven by constant cost-cutting. The ...
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CEVA has licensed its XM4 imaging and vision platform to Nextchip for its Apache4 vision-based pre-processor targeted at real-time ADAS vision systems. Nextchip have incorporated CEVA’s programmable vision platform into the Apache4 alongside its differentiated image processing accelerators to enable advanced and affordable ADAS applications. “We developed the Apache4 to provide affordable and scalable ADAS ...
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Panasonic has added a patented lens to its infrared sensors which it says will increase the sensitivity for radial movements. Pyroelectric passive infrared sensors use lenses to direct the incoming heat radiation to the sensor elements. If an object with a temperature that differs from the surroundings moves into the detection area, the sensor reacts. ...
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Xilinx has made its software defined development environment, SDAccel available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This means it will be used with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances to provide reconfigurable, custom-hardware acceleration with the firm’s 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs. SDAccel automates the acceleration of software application written in C, C++ or OpenCL ...
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A commitment to the European CE mark on consumer products after Brexit is vital for UK manufacturers, say a lobby of business groups And they are calling on the UK Government to commit to keeping the CE mark as it prepares to leave the EU. TechUK’s director of market engagement, Paul Hide, writes: “Keeping CE ...
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Samsung Electronics has made a €75m investment in deterministic Ethernet safety networking firm TTTech. The aim of this investment and technology partnership with the Austrian firm is to develop safety-critical networking to in-car systems using the real-time Ethernet implementation. It is hoped this will lead to open autonomous and ADAS technologies needed for autonomous vehicle ...
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Rohde & Schwarz and Huawei Technologies have demonstrated a 4G mobile phone downlink of 1.2Gbit/s using the LTE-A-Pro specification. This is thought to be pone of the fastest data downlinks speeds for 4G mobile phone downlink yet demonstrated. Peak 1.2Gbit/s download speeds were achieved by using a combination of up to three downlink FDD carriers ...
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Socionext, the Fujitsu-Matsushita SoC jv, has developed a server module combining the company’s hybrid codec technology equipped with the multi-format codec, IC MB86M30 and high efficiency processor, SC2A11. The module, is designated M820C. The MB86M30 codec is able to simultaneously encode four channels of 1080p video in real-time. The SC2A11 is an ARM v8-based energy-efficient multi-core ...
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The LTC4418 is a dual input power prioritizer for 2.5V to 40V systems. To enable portability, preserve memory during brownouts, and ensure a graceful shutdown on power loss, electronic systems employ batteries and capacitors for backup power. The LTC4418 normally powers the load from the higher priority main supply such as a wall adapter or ...
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