Infineon had calendar Q2 revenues of  €2,015 million up 2% from calendar Q1’s €1,983 million. The profit was €317 million. The forecast for calendar Q3 is plus 1% and the forecast for the year is revenue of €8 billion. “Infineon remains on course,” said Reinhard Ploss (pictured) “although the global economy remains sluggish, Group revenue ...

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 5G network rollouts are progressing at a much faster rate when compared to the 4G roll-out, says Steve Molkenkopf. “We expect over 20 operators to launch 5G service and over 20 OEMs to have 5G devices in the first 12 months after the first commercial launch,” says Mollenkopf. Qualcomm reckons that, by the end of this ...

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Silicon Catalyst, the Silicon Valley incubator for startups, has taken in three early-stage companies – two at seed-stage and Silicon Catalyst’s first post-Series A company: • EcoCircuits BV (seed stage) based in Nijmegen, Netherlands Smart and efficient power management solutions • Mentium Technologies (seed stage) based in Santa Barbara, California Analog in-memory computation for AI • ...

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u-blox has bought Rigado’s Bluetooth modules business in an Asset Purchase Agreement. Rigado provides Edge-as-a-Service gateways for Commercial IoT, and began offering certified wireless modules in 2015. This acquisition will allow u-blox to extend their range of products in the area of BLE, Zigbee and Thread, as well as to access additional market segments and channels. ...

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Facebook is working on a wearable brain-computer interface (BCI) which will allow people to type words by thinking them. At the moment, BCI is implemented by implanting electrodes in the brain. However Facebook has reached the point where it feels this can be usefully pursued using non-invasive techniques. “We’re a long way away from being ...

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Despite a 38% sales decline expected this year, the DRAM market will remain the largest IC product category in 2019 with sales reaching $62 billion, down from $99.4 billion in 2018, says IC Insights. IC Insights believes the DRAM market will account for 17% of total IC sales in 2019, compared with 23.6% of the total ...

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 THine, the Japanese serial interface and image signal processing specialist, has volume availability of a MIPI CSI-2 extension chipset which allows engineers to extend MIPI CSI-2 transmission from 1 foot to over 15 meters. These chips also enable designs that can receive 2 different video inputs simultaneously, as well as applications that can copy and distribute (simultaneously ...

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