Never underestimate the chip industry’s inventiveness

Moore’s Law lives, was the message from Future Horizons’ Industry Forecast Seninar (IFS2020) in London on Wednesday. “Never underestimate the chip industry’s inventiveness,” said Future Horizons CEO Malcolm Penn (pictured), adding that the advances in NAND are “chip innovation at its absolute best.” “Even the Chinese are making 64-layer NAND”, said Penn, while 96-layer devices ...

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GDP Growth vs IC Growth

The 2019-2024 correlation coefficient between GDP growth and IC industry growth is forecast to reach 0.90, up from 0.85 from 2010-2019, says IC Insights. Figure 1 depicts the increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2019, as well as IC Insights’ forecast through 2024. Figure 1 Over the 2010-2019 timeframe, ...

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TSMC forecasts 45% Q1 revenue rise

TSMC has forecast a 45% y-o-y rise in Q1 recenue. 5G is one reason given for the spike. The company  expects revenue over January-March to reach $10.2 billion-$10.3 billion, versus $7.1 billion a year ago. “Moving into first quarter 2020, despite mobile product seasonality, we anticipate our business to be supported by the continued ramp ...

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Chip industry dives 11.9%

Semiconductor industry revenues totalled $418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, says Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the memory market negatively impacted many of the top vendors, including Samsung Electronics, the No. 1 vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017. “The memory market, which accounted ...

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Imagination opens Romanian design centre

Imagination has opened a new design centre in Timisoara, Romania to  focus on IP designed for AI and computer vision. The team will initially focus on software and test activities, expanding in the future to areas such as system architecture and design. The new site will complement the capabilities of Imagination’s existing engineering teams located around ...

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BIEA launches youth STEM competition to tackle plastic pollution

The British International Education Association (BIEA) launched its third annual youth STEM competition at a conference at the Royal Institution on the 15 January. This year’s competition is titled “STEM (Stop) the tide of plastic pollution”. EW reporter Alex McCarthy attended the conference to find out how the organisation plans to encourage more young people ...

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What’s occurring, COM-HPC?

Caroline Hayes finds out the progress being made for the latest high-speed embedded computing standard, COM-HPC As the industry prepares for the computing demands of increased connectivity in vehicles, factories and homes, the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is able to provide an update on the standard computer on module (COM) standard that will ...

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Competition: Win a Samsung T7 Portable Touch external SSD

We’re running a short survey in collaboration with Samsung about innovation in the electronics industry. Answer the questions and enter your details to be placed in a draw to win an external SSD! The T7 Touch is a pocket-sized, external solid state drive that weighs 58 grams and boasts AES 256-bit encryption, giving you the ...

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Oscilloscope enhancements and new analyser

Embedded World 2020: Among the established products on display, Rigol Technologies will be highlighting additions to its oscilloscope portfolio and a new real-time spectrum analyser at the show in Nuremberg (25-28 February). The MSO8000 digital oscilloscope has been added to the company’s UltraVision II range which is characterised by its Phoenix chipset architecture and with ...

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USA swears in First Chief of newly created Space Force

Air Force Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, as first chief of space operations, has officially become the highest-ranking military leader of the newly created U.S. Space Force. He was sworn in by US Vice President Mike Pence in a ceremony at the White House last week. The Space Force’s responsibility is described as training, equipping ...

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