TSMC has completed of an assessment of all wafers recently affected by a batch of problematic photoresist material, and has concluded that the incident will reduce TSMC’s Q1 revenues by about US$550 million. The incident will reduce gross margin by 2.6pp, operating margin by 3.2pp, and EPS by NT$0.42, said TSMC. TSMC said it discovered ...

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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has concluded that it can cope with any risks associated with using Huawei switchgear in UK 5G networks, reports the FT. The decision could have an effect on other countries which are considering whether to ban Huawei from bidding for 5G contracts. The FT quotes a source as saying: ...

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Uber made a loss of $1.8 billion on revenues of $11.3 billion in 2018 with half of the loss incurred in Q4. The $1.8 billion full-year loss was an improvement on 2017’s full-year loss of $2.2 billion. Uber’s 2018 revenues were 43% up on 2017’s revenues. Q4 bookings of $14.2 billion were up 11% on ...

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Sequans and ST are co-developing LTE for MCUs used in IoT applicarions. From this collaboration, the companies have developed a dedicated cellular extension board for STM32 Discovery kits based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT technology. ST has also enlarged its STM32CUBE cellular software library to support Sequans’ existing Monarch-based module, GM01Q. A more integrated solution, enriching ...

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Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are using data mining to identify promising organic compounds for the electronics of the future. Producing traditional solar cells made of silicon is very energy intensive. On top of that, they are rigid and brittle. Organic semiconductor materials, on the other hand, are flexible and lightweight. They ...

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UltraSoC, the Cambridge on-chip analytics IP company, has extended its embedded analytics architecture. The new features allow SoC designers to build on-chip monitoring and analytics systems with up to 65,000 elements, allowing seamless support for systems with many thousands of processors. Future iterations will allow even higher numbers of processors for Exascale systems. In addition ...

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