More on: GaN at Power Integrations

At the end of July, Power Integrations revealed that it has been quietly using GaN power transistors  in some of its products for months. This followed the work of analyst TechInsights, which de-capped an InnoSwitch3 IC from the PI and found a GaN part inside. Shortly after this, now armed with the correct search terms, it became ...

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Applied takes China hit

Applied Materials’ China sales were 32% down y-o-y in Q2 – with China contributing only  31% to overall sales compared to 39% in Q2 2018. The China-US trade war has stopped Applied supplying chip manufacturing equipment to several Chinese customers including the Fujian Jin Hua DRAM plant. Applied’s sales fell 14% to $3.56 billion in ...

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A CutiePi for Christmas

CutiePi, an open source Raspberry Pi-based tablet, is being built by the CutiePi team with a completion date by the end of the year. The CutiePi team call it  “a complete Raspberry Pi in a tablet form factor, minus the trouble of connecting monitor or power supply.” CutiePi has an 8-inch display in a 209 ...

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Micron in volume production of 16Gbit LPDDR4 DRAM

Micron says it has begun volume shipments of its  16Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM made on what it calls 1nz nm process (a.k.a. 1.? nm) Micron LPDDR4X is also shipping in volume in a UFS-based multichip package (uMCP4). Currently eight die can be stacked in a package. The LPDDR4 has clock speeds ...

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Mellanox stalking Intel in Ethernet adapter market

Mellanox was within five percentage market share points of market leader Intel in the Q1 Ethernet adapter market, says IHS Markit. Demand from cloud service providers (CSPs) is boosting Mellanox’s market share which climbed 3 percentage points in Q1 to reach 20% which compares to a 25% market share for Intel. CSPs have been the key ...

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