The SIA has welcomed Presidempnt Trump’s tax reform act. “Congressional approval today of legislation to reform America’s outdated corporate tax system is a welcome and long-overdue win for the U.S. semiconductor industry and a major step toward sustaining U.S. leadership in semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing. “The bill includes several important provisions that SIA has ...
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QINGDAO, China--Earlier this month, the New York-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced a proposal to develop an international mass customization standard led by Chinese electronics manufacturer Haier at the National Engineering and Scientific Commission conference. It is the first international standard created by IEEE based on the model, and to serve as its technical framework since the organization was launched more than 50 years ago.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis.--Foxconn Technology Group (FTG) has made its first financial commitment for a planned flat-panel plant in Wisconsin, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., known as FTG outside of Taiwan, on Friday deposited $60M to special bank accounts in Wisconsin. The money is to be used by the village and Racine County to buy land for the $10B flat-panel plant, whose construction is to begin next month.
Since its inventors were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work in 1956 commentators have observed the milestones in the development of the humble transistor. And while transistors may be regarded as humble now, because so many of the tiny semiconductors are used as switches or amplifiers in every electronic device, the impact of the ...
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NXP and Baidu have announced a cooperation in autonomous driving. Under the terms of the agreement, NXP will join Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform, Apollo, and provide semiconductor products including millimeter wave radar, V2X, security, smart connectivity and in-vehicle experience technologies. Apollo is Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform which provides a comprehensive, secure and reliable ...
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued a permit to Qualcomm to test one driverless car with three drivers on California public highways. Qualcomm has a chipset – 9150 C-V2X – for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications. Thev company has begun driverless car field tests in San Diego countybusing Ford cars. Qualcomm also intends to ...
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Q4 DRAM sales are forecast at $21.1 billion by IC Insights, delivering 2017 annual growth of 74%. Strong demand, particularly for high-performance DRAM used in data centre servers, and low-power high-density DRAM used in smartphones and other mobile products, put significant upward pressure on DRAM ASPs. This trend continued into 4Q17 and is expected to ...
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Renesas and Green Hills Software are collaborating on a Connected Cockpit Vehicle with a Dodge Ram truck. The truck integrates the Renesas R-Car H3 automotive computing SoC, and Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS and INTEGRITY Multivisor secure virtualisation, and features ISO 26262-safety critical applications with Android infotainment and cockpit features. The R-Car H3 is part of Renesas’ platform ...
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Today, the first 5G NR spec was completed. AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sony, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, and ZTE say that the completion of the ...
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Cree has upgraded its NanoOptic Precision Delivery Grid optical system to enhance the performance of Cree Streetlights across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) markets. The optics will be mounted on new orders of luminaires across the XSP, Urban, Square LED and RKT Series. The redesigned optics (Type 210, 275 and 2SH) deliver an ...
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