Huawei is cutting 600 jobs – 70% of its total workforce – at Futurewei its US R&D arm. Huawei gave as the reason the “curtailment of business operations” as a result of the US DoC putting it on the Entity List of companies with restricted access to purchasing US tech components and services. Under Entity ...
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Power Integrations has added GaN devices to its range of ac-dc power chips. “The ICs feature up to 95% efficiency across the full load range and up to 100W in enclosed adaptor implementations without requiring a heatsink,” according to the firm. “This increase in performance is achieved using an internally developed high-voltage GaN switch technology.” ...
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Alibaba has produced its first semiconductor IP – a RISC-V processor core. The core was developed by Alibaba’s IC unit called Pingtouge and called Xuantie 910. Pingtouge says Xuantie 910 is available for licensing and related code will be released on GitHub. Pingtouge says that Xuantie 910 is the most powerful RISC-V core ever developed ...
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Earlier today SoftBank announced Vision Fund 2 saying it has MOUs from investors totalling $108 billion. Vision Fund 1 raised $97 billion. Softbank says it will invest $38 billion in VF2 and that others investing are Microsoft, Foxconn, Apple, the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Standard Chartered Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , Sumitomo Mitsui Financial ...
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Intel had Q2 revenue of $16.5 billion, down 3% YoY. Operating profit was $4.6 billion and net profit was $4.1 billion. was Data-centre revenue of $5 billion was down 7% YoY. PC-related revenue of $8,8 billion was up 1% YoY. IoT revenue was $986 billion up 12%. Mobileye revenue was $201 million up 16% Memory ...
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The 2018-2023 global GDP and IC market correlation coefficient will reach 0.88 (0.94 when excluding memory), up from 0.87 in the 2010-2018 time period., says IC Insights. The increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2018, as well as its forecast through 2023 is shown below: Figure 1 From 2010-2018, the ...
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Xilinx had $850 million revenues for calendar Q2 up 3% from calendar Q1 and up 24% y-o-y for a net profit of $241 million (GAAP) or $249 million (non-GAAP). Calendar Q2 Financial Highlights (in millions of $) Po “I am pleased to report that we were able to achieve the mid-point of our revenue guidance for the ...
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