ST had Q1 revenues of $2.33 billion up 22.2% y-o-y representing an increase of $400 million despite it being a quarter in which the market for smartphone parts was weak. Gross and operating margins were up y-o-y to 39.9% and 12.1%, respectively Net income was $239 million – a y-o-y improvement of $131 million despite ...
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IoT start-up Particle has launched an LTE-enabled, cellular E Series IoT module. Particle’s LTE module includes built-in cloud and SIM support, and is certified for the newly available LTE networks designed just for IoT. Long Term Evolution (LTE) CAT M1 network technologies are optimized for Internet of Things applications for a number of reasons. LTE ...
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The semiconductor materials market grew 9.6% in 2017, while worldwide semiconductor revenues increased 21.6% last year, reports SEMI. Wafer fabrication and packaging materials totaled $27.8 billion and $19.1 billion, respectively, in 2017. In 2016, the wafer fabrication materials and packaging materials markets logged revenues of $24.7 billion and $18.2 billion, respectively, for 12.7% and 5.4% ...
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New Yorker Electronics and Isocom, the Hartlepool optocoupler and optoswitch specialist, have teamed up to develop a larger network of certified optoelectronics. Customers of both companies will be open to a new range of products from one provider, benefiting end users. “With this new agreement, New Yorker Electronics raises the bar in supplying global optocoupler ...
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Samsung has begun mass producing 10-nanometer (nm)-class* 16-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4X DRAM for automobiles. The latest LPDDR4X features high performance and energy efficiency while significantly raising the thermal endurance level for automotive applications that often need to operate in extreme environments. The 10nm-class DRAM will also enable the industry’s fastest automotive DRAM-based LPDDR4X interface with the ...
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to stack solution-processed organic solar cells on top of vacuum-processed cells, creating an tandem solar cell with 15% efficiency. “For the last couple of years, efficiency for organic photo-voltaics was stuck around 11 to 12%,” said Michigan physicist Xiaozhou Che. The top solution-processed non-fullerene-acceptor cell ...
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The university of Manchester has made a 1GHz thin-film transistor from amorphous IGZO – indium gallium zinc oxide. The devices, created with Shandong University in China, are made on a high-resistance silicon substrate using Ta2O5 gate dielectric. The material is 80% transparent, opening the door to display applications. “Making a high performance device, like our GHz ...
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The theme for this year’s PA Consulting’s Raspberry Pi Competition 2018 was Sustainability. More than 100 schools were challenged to build projects around the credit card-sized computer that could help to ‘save the planet’. And these entries were whittled down to the nine finalists judged at the IET, at Savoy Place, last week. The imaginative ...
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A professor at the University of Sussex has been given the job of making the UK a world-leader in sound shaping technology. Professor Sriram Subramanian has been named a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) chair for the development of novel acoustic interfaces. This is one of a ten areas of development emerging technology being created ...
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Allegro MicroSystems precision programmable Hall sensor IC that includes differential Hall elements and an internal rare-earth magnet to allow it to detect ferrous targets that are not themselves magnetic. Called ATS344, it is intended for automotive applications requiring high resolution detection of long stroke (>5 mm) linear motion. “The ATS344 is well-suited for applications that require ...
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