The CMOS image sensor market grew at a record 20% y-oy in 2017,matching the growth of the overall semiconductor market, reports Yole Développement. The CIS market was worth $13.9 billion last year and will have a 9.4% CAGR between 2017 and 201, says Yole. The main driver is smartphones integrating additional cameras to support ...
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Samsung expects a 20% y-o-y increase in Q3 profit to $15.6 billion – another record. Revenues are expected to be $58 billion. Samsung’s semiconductor business accounted for 78% of Samsung’s profits in Q2, but displays and phones saw a Q2 profits decline. Q3 is expected to be better than Q2 for the display business as ...
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Avatar Integrated Systems has introduced new architecture to its Aprisa and Apogee products wifh provides a detailed-route-centric place-and-route architecture forbdesigns at 16nm and below process nodes. As designs move to sub-16nm, wire and via resistance become the dominant factor for the performance of the designs. Interconnect delay and other wiring related effects can no longer be handled ...
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University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have found an organic compound that can replace platinum in hydrogen fuel cells. The best catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells ICs platinum — but it comes with a high price tag. Shannon Stahl, the UW–Madison professor of chemistry who led the study in collaboration with Thatcher Root, a professor of chemical ...
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Xilinx Developer Forum: Claimed to be the highest performance convolutional neural network (CNN) on an fpga, Omnitek’s CNN is available now. The deep learning processing unit (DPU) is future-proofed, explained CEO Roger Fawcett, due to the programmability of the fpga. It was demonstrated as a GoogLeNet Inception-v1 CNN, using eight-bit integer resolution. It achieved 16.8 ...
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Xilinx Developer Forum, California: Lynx Software Technologies demonstrated secure separation in designs of mixed critical functionality systems, with a robotic control system for industrial machine learning (ML) and industrial IoT applications. Based on Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+, the software kernel company was running an operator workstation, a robotic controller and real-time robotic control and inspection system, ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories and MIT’s Centre for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) today announced a multi-year partnership focused on advancing the science and engineering of intelligence. Fujitsu Laboratories has conducted a wide range of basic and applied research in the areas of next-generation services, computer servers, networks, electronic devices, and advanced materials. “A fundamental understanding of ...
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Airbus has teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Autodesk in an educational initiative which taps into the excitement of space exploration. The Airbus Foundation, ESA and Autodesk have launched an educational online competition called Moon Camp, aimed at fostering interest amongst school students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The “Moon ...
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