Qualcomm and Broadcom meet

Broadcom and Qualcomm met earlier today to discuss Broadcom’s bid. “We met with representatives of Broadcom for two hours earlier today, and listened carefully to what they had to say,” says  Qualcomm,  “the Qualcomm board will promptly meet to discuss the meeting and to determine next steps.” If no deal is reached the bid moves ...

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Arm introduces IP for machine learned in edge devices

Arm has announced a suite of IP, collected together under the provisional title of Project Trillium, to bring machine learning to edge devices. The suite includes scalable machine learning and object detection processors, claimed to enable trillions of machine learning operations per second on mobile devices. As well as machine learning, the suite is intended ...

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Apple talking to Yangtze River about buying NAND

Apple is talking to China’s Yangtze River Storage Technologies about sourcing NAND, reports the Nikkei. It is possible that Apple, whose products are assembled in China, is being pressured by China to buy from Yangtze River, and it is not known what quantities are being discussed. Analysts are sceptical about the ability of the emerging ...

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ISSCC: Novel gate drive improves GaN power transistor switching

GaN power transistors can shrink AC‑DC power supplies and cut losses but, to get the best out of them, their gate drive waveform needs careful attention. As a German team pointed out at ISSCC, GaN transistors have a threshold voltage of ~1V, which makes them vulnerable to spurious turn‑on through the Miller capacitance, particularly when ...

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Low-noise general-purpose p-channel JFET is more available

Linear Integrated Systems has general-purpose version of its low-noise LSJ74 p-channel JFET, called LS94. “The LSJ74 is a world-class option for designers seeking to build ultra-low-noise circuits, but the part currently has limited availability,” said the firm. “Because the LS94 has slightly higher noise, and is offered in a single IDSS range versus the multiple ...

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ISSCC: In-shoe navigation without GPS

How do you navigate without GPS? Using very expensive accelerometers and gyros and integration, if you are a nuclear submarine. But what if you are a pedestrian? Revealed at the IEEE’s annual International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week was a dead-reckoner for walkers that fits in the heel of a shoe, and ...

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Toshiba unlikely to get approval for Bain-Hynix bid; may retain or IPO memory unit

It looks as if Toshiba will not get regulatory approval for the sale of its memory business to a Bain-Hynix led consortium by the March 31st deadline. Failure to get approval would be vastly beneficial to Toshiba because it could then keep or IPO the unit, or IPO a part of the unit and still ...

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KPMG finds ‘tempered optimism’ among semi execs

KPMG finds ‘tempered optimism’ for industry prospects in 2018 among semiconductor executives. 57% of semiconductor execs expect increased profitability this year – up from 51% in last year’s survey, says KPMG in the report on its annual survey of  execs. Smaller (under $5 billion revenue) companies are more confident than large companies. 37% expect 1-5% ...

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