NAND output grows as ASPs fall

NAND bit output is increasing as yields improve on 64/72 layer devices and prices are expected to fall more steeply than Q3’s 10-15% as demand continues its year-long trend of lagging supply, reports DRAMeXchange. Samsung Samsung’s NAND Flash revenue for 3Q18 rose by 2.1% QoQ to $6.05 billion. Samsung maintained a QoQ growth of more ...

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Automotive electronic systems to grow 7% this year and 6.3% next year, says IC Insights

Sales of automotive electronic systems are forecast to increase 7.0% in 2018 and 6.3% in 2019, the highest growth rate in both years among the six major end-use applications for semiconductors, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows that sales of automotive-related electronic systems are forecast to increase to $152 billion in 2018 from $142 billion ...

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Power Integrations makes 600V half-bridge motor driver

Power Integrations has introduced a 600V half-bridge motor driver with integrated high-side and low-side drive FredFets (fast recovery diode field effect transistors). Branded BridgeSwitch, the parts can be used in inverters of up to 98.5% conversion efficiency in brushless DC (BLDC) motor drives up to 300W. Home-appliances such as refrigerator compressors and HVAC fans are the ...

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Meet Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, and Raspbian gets a media player

Raspberry Pi has released a cut-down version of its high-end Pi 3 Model B+, and has added a video player to its Raspbian Linux-based operating system. On the processing side, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, as it will be known, shares the same 1.4GHz quad core Arm Cortex-A53 as the top-end 3B+, but looses ...

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IAR, Secure Thingz and Renesas team up on IoT

IAR Ssystems of Sweden, Secure Thingz of Cambridge and Renesas  are joining forces on IoT. Secure Thingz’ Embedded Trust, which is a security development environment that leverages the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE from IAR Systems, will support Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) when Embedded Trust is launched to the broader market in 2019. This new hardware and software ...

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Imec demo-es BLE keyless entry

Imec has demo-ed and approach for secure and very accurate passive keyless entry on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). This technology enables a seamless car access experience where a BLE device, such as a mobile phone, acts as a digital car key. Imec’s demonstrator builds on the research center’s Secure High Accuracy Distance Measurement (HADM) algorithms implemented ...

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VW to invest $50bn in EV production

VW is to spend $50 billion retooling car plants at Zwickau, Emden and Hannover to mass produce electric cars  in a bid to make their production profitable, reports Reuters. “With high economies of scale, I think we will be the most profitable company in electric vehicles,” says CEO Herbert Diess. The unions have yet to ...

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