The China credit squeeze following the trade war with the US saw funds raised for early stage (seed and before Series A) investment fall 53% to $559 million, reports Xero2IPO. 234 Chinese VC houses reported that funds raised in H1 were down 44% to $12 billion. Exits were down 65% at 271. “Due to caution ...
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Element 14 has announced the winning designs of its “Bluetooth Unleashed” Design Challenge, which included a smart doorbell, enhanced exercise bike and even a device to improve the ambiance in a room. As one of five challenges that the element14 community and Premier Farnell runs each year, 20 community members were tasked with uniquely showcasing ...
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The renowned EU fines supremo Margrethe Vestager (pictured), who recently imposed the $5 billion fine on Google, may be after Apple for its use of its Lightning charger cable connector. ‘Given the unsatisfactory progress with this voluntary approach, the Commission will shortly launch an impact assessment study to evaluate costs and benefits of different other ...
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Toshiba has announced 3D XL-Flash – a fast to read SLC flash type with 10x reduction in read latency compared to TLC flash. Compared to QLC’s 30μs program time, XL-Flash has a 7μs program time, Toshiba sees it as providing fast cache when used in conjunction with QLC flash. The combination is faster than a ...
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Using series regulation to operate through voltage surges is a well known technique, with the regulator fully-on during normal operation to minimise losses in the supply. For infrequent surges a linear surge protection regulator is fine, but in the face of frequent surges dissipation from a linear regulator could become an issue. For situations where ...
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Marvell has announced an NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) SSD converter controller, the 88SN2400, for cloud and enterprise data centers. The 88SN2400 controller is designed and optimized to convert an NVMe SSD into an NVMe-oF SSD, providing an architecture that increases utilization and scalability of SSDs within the data center to ultimately lower total cost of ...
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Samsung is to invest $161 billion over the next three years to create 40,000 new jobs and boost the Korean economy. The company’s vice chairman, Jay Y Lee, recently released from jail, has been in talks with the Korean government about ways to boost the Korean economy. Three quarters of the money will be spent ...
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Elon Musk set the cat among the pigeons last night with this tweet: ‘Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.’ Wth the stock closing at 379 last night, this may be an attractive offer for shareholders. It values Tesla at $80 billion. Musk owns 20% of the stock. The funding may be coming ...
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Ricoh has launched an LDO regulator with 0.3 µA current consumption and integrated battery voltage The regulator, designated RP124, has a current consumption of 0.3µA (at no-load), extending the lifetime ofbattery powered devices, which is important for those applications that are mainly in sleep mode and resume for a periodical brief moment to perform a task. ...
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Microsemi has launched a family 24G SAS (SAS-4) expanders for server and networked storage. 24G SAS doubles the bandwidth of the storage interconnect, which enables the full bandwidth of the PCIe Gen 4 to be utilized by the storage interconnect. This new family of devices is specifically designed to meet the demanding SAS storage infrastructure ...
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