Intel is expected to be back on top of the semiconductor league table in 2019, regaining the crown it lost in 2017, predicts IC Insights, while Sony is expected to be the only top 15 company to grow year. The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 2019 is shown ...
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Q3 DRAM revenue rose 4% ending three quarters of QoQ decline as server and smartphone customers pulled shipments forward, says DRAMeXchange. However profit margins were reduced as ASPs fell 20%. Samsung increased Q3 bit shipments by 30% and quarterly revenue by 5% QoQ but its profit margin fell to 33% from 41% in Q2. Hynix ...
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With typical temperature-reading accuracy of 0.25°C and low operating and standby current, ST’s STTS22H enhances temperature and heat-flow monitoring in asset trackers, shipping-container loggers, HVAC systems, air humidifiers, refrigerators, building-automation systems, and smart consumer devices. The chip is I2C and SMBus 3.0 compliant, and supports flexible operating modes including configurable output data rate (ODR) down ...
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Hot electron capture would be one way to improve the efficiency of Perovskite solar cells, by directing the energy of those electrons to the external circuit, rather than allowing it to become heat within the semiconductor. Now a team from University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore think they have ...
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Supplyframe subsidiary company SamacSys has completed an integration with Cadence Design Systems’s Allegro and OrCAD PCB design tool suites. This collaboration expands on the Cadence OrCAD Capture Cloud and the Allegro System Capture electrical engineering design platform by directly integrating the SamacSys platform of free design resources, including PCB footprints, schematic symbols and 3D models ...
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Wayve, a London-based start up which designs artificial intelligence software for self-driving vehicles, has announced a $20m series A funding round to launch a pilot fleet of vehicles in central London. The investment was led by Eclipse Ventures, with participation from Balderton Capital and existing investors Compound, Fly Ventures and firstminute capital. End-to-end machine learning ...
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The USA has nothing to fear from China’s chip industry, said Tsinghua Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo (pictured) in Beijing at the weekend. “There’s no need for the United States to feel jittery,” said Zhao, “we’re trailing far behind, not posing any threat to the U.S. in the competition.” Zhao said that it will take at ...
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The Q4 DRAM contract ASP is undergoing a 5% QoQ decline while unit volumes have seen considerable QoQ growth, says DRAMeXchange. Inventory levels may mean that suppliers will no longer need to cut prices to encourage further sales leading to stable and recovering prices in 2020. DRAMeXchange believes that Samsung will not increase its wafer ...
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Researchers from Holst Centre have uses spatial atomic layer deposition (sALD) to create both the semiconductor and dielectric layer in a thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane. Using a low-temperature, large-area process for the backplane, the team created a 200 ppi QVGA display demonstrator. The process allows TFTs to be produced on cheaper, transparent plastic foils, significantly ...
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced that its digital skills programme, IT Futures, has engaged 570,000 students, across the UK, registering a sharp increase in participation by young girls. TCS’ IT Futures Programme focuses on young people in schools, colleges and universities, as well as their influencers – teachers, parents, and peers. It’s administered by ...
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