Kyocera has opened its Minato Mirai Research Centre in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The centre was created with the aim of promoting open innovation and developing new business technologies. “Expansion of our current businesses and creation of new businesses are necessary for the Kyocera Group to reach its target of 2 trillion yen in sales ...
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Würth is offering a surface-mount quad transformer for 1000Base-T Ethernet LAN connections. “WE-LAN AQ transformer convinces in an exemplary fashion in terms of crosstalk, insertion loss, return loss, differential and common-mode rejection,” claimed the firm, without giving figures. Inside, there are transformers and (smaller) common-mode chokes However, this data sheet gives the numbers as: crosstalk (1-100MHz) ...
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Renesas has announced its fourth-generation lithium-ion battery management IC for electric vehicles – promising “unmatched lifetime accuracy”, which it quantifies as ±6mV (at ±6σ) 15-year board level accuracy. Called ISL78714, the chip monitors and balances up to 14 series connected cells with ±2mV accuracy (14bit ADC) across automotive temperature ranges, and can be using in stacks ...
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Japan Display, the much bailed-out Japanese LCD manufacturer, is to receive a $756 million investment from China’s Harvest Tech Investment Management, Oasis Management of Hong Kong and other investors. Japan Display, which was formed in 2011 by putting together the LCD operations of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, will also borrow $180 million from its main ...
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UniSoc, the Tsinghua Unigroup subsidiary put together from Spreadtrum and RDA Microelectronics, plans to launch its integrated apps processor and 5G modem for mobile phones in H2 next year, says the Nikkei. Qualcomm says it will be launching its first integrated apps processor and 5G modem in H1 next year. Mediatek says it will launch ...
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Semtech and Murata are sampling a modem based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The modem uses Semtech’s LoRa Cloud Device and Application Services – a set of services that provide device configuration, status monitoring and application support; and LoRa Cloud Join Server a network independent service which simplifies the provisioning of devices across ...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES says it has taped-out a 12nm LP FinFet Arm-based 3D test chip for computing, AI/ML and wireless applications. The chip has Arm’s mesh interconnect technology in 3D that allows data to take a more direct path to other cores, minimizing latency while increasing data transfer rates as demanded by data centers, edge computing and ...
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Three quarters of all IC product categories are expected to see flat or negative growth this year, says IC Insights. After flying high for two years, DRAM sales growth is forecast to rank last in 2019, worst among all IC categories. The NAND flash sales decline puts flash close behind. IC Insights recently released its ...
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Marvell has expanded its NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) portfolio: Toshiba Memory’s native NVMe-oF Ethernet solid state drive (SSD) has been matched with Marvell’s NVMe-oF SSD converter controller, delivering direct-to-Ethernet SSD. The Marvell NVMe-oF Ethernet SSD controller has been optimised to expedite SSD makers’ time to market and drive broad data centre adoption of Ethernet Bunch ...
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Arm’s owner Softbank paid no tax last year thanks to a transfer of 25% of Arm to Softbank’s Vision Fund, claims the Nikkei. The transfer of 25% of Arm Ltd to the zvision Fund saved Softbank around $5.6 billion, says the Nikkei. Arm’s parent company, Arm Holdings, has been renamed SVF Holdco. On March ...
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