CEVA and the wide-angle lens and image processing specialist Immervision of Montreal are partnering.  Immervision’s  image enhancement algorithms and software technologies improve image quality and remove the inherent distortions associated with the use of wide-angle cameras, particularly at the edges of the frame. Immervision’s technologies have shipped in more than 50 million devices to date ...

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Smartphone sales fell 3.6% to 331.2 million units in Q2, making it seven successive quarters of decline, says IHS Markit. The market has not increased on a year-over-year basis since the third quarter of 2017. The decline in shipments in the second quarter was widespread, with only Samsung, Huawei, OPPO and TCL Alcatel showing y-o-y ...

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Q2 semi sales were up 0.3% on Q1 at $98.2 billion, says the SIA, but were down 16.8% on Q2 2018. Sales for June were $32.7 billion, down 0.9% on May  and down 16.8% on June 2018. H1 sales were doen 14.5% y-o-y. Sales during the first half of 2019 were 14.5% lower than they ...

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Xilinx will expand its Alveo data center accelerator card portfolio with the launch of the Alveo U50 which is currently sampling with general availability planned for the autumn. The U50 card is a low profile adaptable accelerator with PCIe Gen 4 support, designed to supercharge a broad range of critical compute, network and storage workloads, ...

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Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss (pictured) has had his contract extended for another two years from its original expiry date of September 20 2020 to December 31st 2022. “Infineon is developing in a highly dynamic manner, systematically expanding its leading position in central future-oriented fields of semiconductor technology,” says Infineon chairman Wolfgang Elder, “ I would ...

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Japan has just got its third unicorn after SmartNews of Tokyo raised a $28.14 million funding round at a valuation of over $1 billion. The seven year-old SmartNews has an app which distributes news from media sites. It has over 20 million users The money will be used to hire more engineers and set up ...

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On Friday, Huawei is set to unveil its HongMeng OS – its alternative to Android which the US government is preventing Huawei from using. Huawei could put a smartphone using the HongMeng OS on the market in Q4, reports the China newspaper Global Times. It is reported that the first use of HongMeng in a ...

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