Cypress for sale

Cypress Semiconductor is on the block, reports Bloomberg. Following takeover interest, Cypress has hired advisers to explore options for selling the company. Cypress shares went up 13% yesterday after news broke of the move. The shares have gone up 36% this year. In Q1 the company reported a 5.5% drop in revenues but forecast a ...

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China in for ten years’ unprofitable slog

China is in for an unprofitable decade-long slog if it wants to catch up with the world’s best in chip technology. “This is an extremely challenging and brutal industry, heavily reliant on long term industrial accumulation,” said Jay Huang Jie, founding partner of Jadestone Capital and former Intel Managing Director in China, speaking in Hong ...

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Q1 was worst quarterly semi performance for 10 years

In Q1 the chip market posted its worst quarterly performance in 10 years, according to IHS Markit. Revenues fell to $101.2 billion in Q1,;down 12.9% from $116.2 billion in Q118. This represented the largest y-o-y quarterly decrease since the second quarter of 2009. Memory drove the sales plunge exacerbated by excess inventory and falling demand ...

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Sensor measures barometric pressure and temperature

Infineon has come up with a miniaturised digital barometric pressure sensor is capable of measuring both pressure and temperature. Available now, the sensor offers an ultra-high precision of ±2 cm and a low current consumption for precise measurement of altitude, air flow and body movements. This makes the DPS368 suitable  for mobile applications and wearable devices ...

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Reference design for AR/VR viewers

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 Smart Viewer Reference Design aims to to help decrease product development time of both AR and VR Smart Viewers.  “By distributing the workload and tapping into the compute power of host devices via tethering to users’ smartphone or PC, the reference designs’ additional features like eye tracking and 6DoF controllers unlock a ...

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SSDs store 2,048GB, have 3,180MB/s read and 2,920MB/s write

Next month Toshiba starts sampling its XG6-P solid SSD series, a derivative of its NVMe M.2-based XG6 Series offering up to 2,048 GB capacity. XG6-P SSDs are suitable for high-end workstation PCs and gaming systems, as well as cost-optimized data center and composable infrastructures. The SSDs use  96-layer BiCS Flash 3D TLC chips. The SSDs have ...

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Marvell selling connectivity portfolio to NXP

Marvell is selling its wireless connectivity portfolio to NXP in an all-cash asset transaction valued at $1.76 billion. The portfolio includes Marvell’s WiFi Connectivity Business Unit, Bluetooth technology portfolio, and related assets. Wireless connectivity pulled in $300 million in in revenues in Marvell’s  2019 FY. The unit employs 550 people worldwide. NXP anticipates revenue associated with ...

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Cadence machine can prototype a 1bn gate SoC on FPGAs

For software development without final silicon, Cadence has launched FPGA-based hardware that can simulate SoCs with up to a billion gates. Called Protium X1, it is intended for debugging software intended to run on SoCs that have yet to be fabbed – for AI, 5G mobile and graphics processors, for example. It can run a 1bn ...

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