Samsung and Apple buy 19.5% of all semiconductors

Samsung and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5% of the total worldwide market, says Gartner. Samsung and Apple together bought $81.8 billion of semiconductors in 2017, an increase of more than $20 billion from 2016. “Samsung Electronics and Apple not only retained their respective No. 1 and No. 2 ...

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Socionext to sample new graphics display controller in Q3

In Q3 Socionext intends to sample the third generation of its graphics display controllers calked the SC1701, In addition to strengthening the graphics function enabling 4K resolution and deep colour processing for state-of-the art in-vehicle display systems, Socionext incorporated APIX3 technology supporting increased demand for high speed video and data connectivity up to 12 Gbps. ...

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RISC-V processor trace IP available

The open-source RISC-V processor architecture is getting a trace function through an IP (intellectual property) block from Cambridge-based UltraSoC. It supports both 32 and 64-bit RISC-V designs, and is intended to integrate with the firms other RISC-V offerings. “The addition of trace capabilities means that UltraSoC provides the most comprehensive RISC-V commercial debug solution,” claimed ...

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Alps signs European passives and e-mech deal with TTI

Alps Electric Europe has entered into a pan-European distribution agreement with TTI. Alps Electric has had a sales presence in Europe with a Germany-based subsidiary since 1979. It will use the specialist distributor of passives, electromechanical and discrete components to support and expand its European sales. Alps co-ordinates sales and product engineering from its European ...

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Bozotti tenure at ST ends on high note with revenues up 19.7%

ST ended Carlo Bozotti’s final year as CEO on a high note, with Q4 net revenues of $2.47 billion, up 15.5% sequentially, gross margin of 40.6%, operating income of $408 million, operating margin of 16.5%, 2017 full-year net revenues up 19.7% y-o-y at $8.35 billion, 2017 net income of $802 million and free cash flow ...

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Internet casts its net further to meet 2020 goals

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 9.c is to increase access to ICT (information and communication technologies) and a report released by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is encouraging. It states that least developed countries (LDCs) are on track to achieve the goal of universal and affordable Internet access by 2020. The report, ICTs, LDCs ...

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Neural network SDK for PowerVR GPUs

Imagination Technologies has announced a software design kit (SDK) for developing neural networks on its PowerVR graphics processors (GPUs). It is aimed at convolutional neural networks, and both an API and SDK are included, as well as an image for flashing on to an Acer Chromebook R13 for hardware development. Future versions of the API ...

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MEMS measures electric fields

Austrian engineers have developed an electric field magnitude sensor that delivers quantitative results down to 200V/m. “The equipment currently used to measure electric field strength has some significant downsides,” claimed Andreas Kainz from the Technical University if Vienna (TU Wien). “These devices contain parts that become electrically charged. Conductive metallic components can significantly alter the ...

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