Apple’s 20% drop in iPhone unit sales and 27.7% y-o-y drop in iPhone revenues in China in Q4 were due to the high unit price, says IDC. The cheapest of last year’s iPhones was $749 and the most expensive was $1,449. “In addition to the regular performance upgrades in 2018, there is no major innovation ...

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Aurora, the two year-old San Francisco autonomous driving start-up, has raised more than $530 million in a second funding round led by Sequoia. The investment was made at a compsny valuation of $2.5 billion, Last year the company raised $90 million. Aurora is focussed on Level 4 autonomous driving which means driverless in metropolitan areas. ...

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Intel has joined up with Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City to introduce True View technology to TV coverage of their matches which allows immersive match views from any angle. Intel True View re-creates the action on the pitch and presents that from an ideal vantage point or player’s perspective. The tech offers: Multi-angle views of a ...

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A chip which resets a portable device after lock-up due to a software malfunction, has been launched by Ricoh. The R3201 provides a reset cycle to the application processor that is long enough to reset it properly. It has two independent reset request inputs (RST0, RST1) to connect a single reset switch or by using ...

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The latest edition of Mouser’s Methods, called Design Trends and the Transformation of Everything, looks at transformative technologies like 5G, driverless cars and AR. The issue features multiple articles on issues relevant to IoT, including practical applications in IIoT, a survey of IoT development kits, and IoT contributions to sustainable engineering. The new issue also ...

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Renesas reported Q4 sales 11% down y-o-y at $1.67 billion and profits down 4.9% y-o-y at $191 million. For the full year of 2018, sales were down 3,3% y-o-y at $6.7 billion and profits were down 2.1% y-o-y at $1 billion. For Q1 it forecasts sales of $1.3-5 billion. “In our full year 2018 and ...

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IC production in China represented 15.3% of its $155 billion IC market in 2018, up from 12.6% five years earlier in 2013, says IC Insights, which forecasts that this share will increase by 5.2 percentage points from 2018 to 20.5% in 2023.   Figure 1 Currently, China-based IC production is forecast to exhibit a very ...

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