Led by Chinese vendors Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo (OPPO and Vivo are brands of BK Electronics) the smartphone market grew 5.3% in Q1 to 340 million units, says DRAMeXchange. The growth is expected to be continued in the current quarter with 5% growth. Samsung’s smartpgone production volume of smartphone fell by nearly 9% Y-o-y. For ...
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The MEMS market will grow 17.5% in value between 2018 and 2023, to reach $31 billion in 2023, says Yole Développement. “The consumer market segment is showing the biggest share, with more than 50%. The good news is that almost all MEMS devices will contribute to this growth,” asserts Dr. Eric Mounier, Principal Analyst, MEMS & Photonics, at ...
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Imec has demonstrated a low-cost impingement-based solution for cooling chips at package level. Conventional solutions realize cooling through combining heat exchangers that are bonded to heat spreaders that are then attached to the chip backside. These are all interconnected with thermal interface materials (TIM) that create a fixed thermal resistance that can’t be overcome by ...
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Micron has stated that it’s under investigation by the Chinese government. The company confirms that, on May 31st, officials from China’s State Administration for Market Regulation visited Micron’s China sales offices looking for information. Samsung and Hynix have confirmed that they have also had talks with Chinese trade officials. The talks are to do with ...
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NI says its latest release of the InstrumentStudio software for PXI modular instruments improves system interactivity and makes debugging while running tests more intuitive. InstrumentStudio can now create a multi-instrument environment, so engineers can capture screenshots and measurement results in one view from their suite of instruments. Also it is possible to save project-level configurations ...
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Queen’s University Belfast is investing £500k in a cyber security research lab at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). An aim of the facility is to work with global companies, start-ups and SMEs to form a strong response to cyber security attacks. The CSIT Test lab includes a high-speed network interconnected via a multi-gigabit ...
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The automotive IC market will grow 18.5% this year , says IC Insights, driven by systems monitoring and control, safety, ADAS, convenience, and the growth of autonomous driving. Systems that improve vehicle performance, that add comfort and convenience, and that warn, detect, and take corrective measures to keep drivers safe and alert are being added ...
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Toshiba says it has completed the sale of its chip business to a consortium comprised of Bain, Hynix, Apple, Dell, Seagate and Kingston Technology. Under the new ownership structure of the memory unit, Toshiba and optical products specialist Hoya, will have a 50.1% stake in Toshiba Memory with Toshiba having 40.2% and Hoya having 9.9%. Bain ...
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Toshiba says it has completed the sale of its chip business to a consortium comprised of Bain, Hynix, Apple, Dell, Seagate and Kingston Technology. The saga of Toshiba’s attempt to sell the unit has gone on for well over a year. Foxconn is said to have made a $30 billion bid for the business which was ...
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The Scandinavians are opposing the EU’s digital tax plans. “A digital services tax deviates from fundamental principles of income taxation by applying the tax on gross income, i.e. without regard to whether the taxpayer is making a profit or not,” Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson, and the finance ministers of Denmark and Finland, Kristian Jensen ...
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