ST is to build two new 300mm fabs costing $3.63 billion according to Usine Nouvelle. ST will look for funding for the fabs from the French and Italian governments which own 27.5% of the company. The fabs will be located in Agrate and Crolles. ST has not built a 300mm fab since 2002 went it ...
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Panasonic has announced a 3D lidar sensor for autonomous robots, capable of scanning 60° vertically and 270° horizontally. Applications in industrial forklifts, mobile robotics, construction and smart buildings are expected. Because the firm sees this as a sensor for robots that work indoors and outdoors, it is capable of detecting objects up to 50m away, as well ...
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Microcontroller development tool firm Lauterbach is now working with QNX to provide JTAG debugging capabilities for the latest QNX Version 7.0 secure embedded operating system for the automotive industry. Developers using the 64-bit OS with Lauterbach’s TRACE32 debugger can use the new debugging capabilities with the latest software update. This includes operation on both ARM and ...
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Q3 PC shipments were 67. 2 million in Q3, down 0.5% y-oy which was better than the expected. The top five PC suppliers, which represented 75% of total market sales, were: HP was No.1 with a 23% market share with 15.3 units shipped shipments, up 6% y-ot and the only on with significant shipment growth. Lenovo ...
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Machine learning and AI are becoming important in securing data networks as cybercriminals around the world incessantly release new malware types that can morph and look like harmless files which are difficult for antivirus engines to detect. As a result, Rohde & Schwarz’s Cybersecurity business division has teamed up with a firm developing network protection ...
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Intel has delivered a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to Dutch lab QuTech. “The chip was fabricated by Intel and features a unique design to achieve improved yield and performance,” said Intel. “The delivery underscores the importance of material science and semiconductor manufacturing in realising the promise of quantum computing.” Qubits are fragile, ...
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Intersil has launched a buck-boost voltage regulator for tablets, ultrabooks, power banks, and other mobile devices using the reversible USB Type-C connector. The ISL95338 bidirectional voltage regulator accepts input power from a wide range of DC power sources–AC/DC power adapters, USB power delivery (PD3.0) ports, travel adapters, power banks–and converts it to a regulated voltage ...
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eFPGA start-up Flex Logix has licensed its FPGA IP to Sandia National Labs. Flex Logix has delivered the Gen 2 EFLX-2.5K logic core in Sandia’s 180nm process for the development of multiple Sandia chip products for use in Sandia projects. “The ability to reconfigure RTL at any time can avoid expensive chip spins, enable one ...
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August sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales declined for a second straight month in August, says SEMI, after growing through 2017. August billings were $2.18 billion in August down from July’s $2,270, However, August 2017billings were almost 28% up on zdsAugust 2016 figure, SEMI said, and the market remains on pace for record annual sales ...
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Western Digital has put out a statement saying that Toshiba cannot complete the sale of its memory division to a Bain-led consortium without its consent. ‘Toshiba ignores that the arbitration seeks to prohibit the transfer of any JV interests without SanDisk’s consent. Because Toshiba transferred other JV interests, such as its managerial and control rights ...
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