Ericsson has paid $1 billion to settle US Department of Justice corruption investigations.  “Through slush funds, bribes, gifts, and graft, Ericsson conducted telecom business with the guiding principle that ‘money talks,’” said US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. “Certain employees in some markets, some of whom were executives in those markets, acted in bad faith and knowingly ...

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TSMC is to put 5nm processing into commercial production next year, reports DigiTimes. There has been speculation since the summer that TSMC’s push on 5nm means that the 2020 iPhone processors will be made on a 5nm process. The 2018 iPhones were the first to use TSMC’s 7nm process. The company plans to ‘soon’ break ...

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Nexperia claims to have the fastest common mode filter (choke)/ ESD protection combination on the market. The new PCMFxUSB3BA/C features the industry’s widest differential passband of up to 10 GHz 3dB frequency and a very high surge robustness of up to 7.5 A 8/20 µs. It is designed to suppress common mode and single-ended noise ...

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Mouser has brought out an eBook  with Bourns, exploring new components, technologies, and strategies for the design and development of electric vehicles. In Electrification of the Vehicle, subject matter experts from Mouser and Bourns provide detailed explanations of concepts and products including shunt resistors, inductor designs for on-board chargers, and the use of inductors and current ...

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UltraSoc  is offering an open-source implementation of its RISC-V trace encoder via the OpenHW Group. The availability of a production-grade, standards-compliant processor trace solution is a key enabler for developers, and supports the OpenHW Group’s aim of creating an open, commercial grade ecosystem for development based on open-source processors. “We fully believe in industry standards ...

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Xilinx has issued the following statement: ‘On December 5, 2019, a patent infringement lawsuit was filed by Analog Devices against Xilinx and our Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.’ ‘We intend to vigorously defend against this lawsuit. Xilinx has a history of creating pioneering technology spanning multiple ...

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Plessey has developed the world’s first GaN on Silicon-based Red LED. Whilst InGaN-based Blue and Green LEDs are commercially available, Red LEDs are typically based on AlInGaP material or colour converted Red. For AR, achieving high efficiency ultra-fine pitch Red pixels (< 5 µm) remains elusive due to severe edge effects from AlInGaP material and ...

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A Q3 IC revenue fall of 14.7% suggests a year of double-digit decline, despite some signs of growth in memory, reports IHS Markit. Q3 chip sales were $111.3 billion down from $130.5 billion in Q3 2018. This follows y-o-y declines of 15.3% in Q2  and 12.4% in Q1. After three quarters, semiconductor revenue is on ...

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