Silicon Labs Secure Vault suite addresses emerging regulations for IoT

Silicon Labs has announced Secure Vault, a security suite designed to address increasing threats and regulatory pressures arising from IoT connected devices. The wireless Gecko series 2 platform uses Secure Vault, combining software security features with physically unclonable function (PUF) hardware technology. Secure Vault’s hardware features are implemented in a wireless SoC package. The security subsystem, ...

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US may block Infineon bid for Cypress

Infineon’s $8.7 billion bid for Cypress could be blocked by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS). The proposed takeover of Cypress by Infineon was announced last June. The news site for regulatory affairs, MLex Market Insight, reported that Infineon and Cypress have filed and pulled and refiled submissions to CFIUS  and a ...

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Kurt Seivers to succeed Rick Clemmer as NXP CEO

Kurt Seivers (pictured) is to take over as NXP’s CEO from Rick Clemmer. Clemmer has been CEO since 2009 when he took over from Frans van Houten now CEO of Philips. In 2006, a private equity consortium led by KKR had bought NXP and Clemmer dealt with the aftermath of that transaction IPO-ing the company ...

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Mellanox buys Titan IC

Mellanox is to buy pattern-matching specialist Titan IC of Belfast to accelerate its search and data analytics programmes and strengthen Mellanox’s network intelligence capabilities. Titan IC’s  team in Belfast will become the centre network intelligence R&D for Mellanox. “We have worked with Mellanox for many years to integrate our RXP regular expression processor into their advanced line ...

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Transistor counts still doubling every 2 years, says IC Insights

Though growth rates in some product categories have slowed, doubling of transistors per chip every two years remains a guideline that the industry continues to follow, days IC Insights. IC Insights’ 2020 edition of The McClean Report shows how over the past five decades, DRAMs, flash memories, microprocessors, and graphics processors have tracked Moore’s Law  (Figure ...

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Photonics interconnect IC handles 3.2Tbs

Ranovus of Ottawa, the datacentre interconnect specialist, has brought out a photonics interconnect called Odin which is based on ICs which can each handle 3.2Tbs. The image shows 16 of these ICs on a board capable of delivering 51.2Tbs. The interconnect comprises Ranovus’ multi-wavelength Quantum Dot Laser (QDL), 100 Gbps silicon photonics based Micro Ring ...

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CSconnected semiconductor cluster aims to encompass supply chain

As part of Wales Week London, compound semiconductor cluster CSconnected held an event at the IET in London promoting its strategy to build a collaborative supply chain from chip design to end products in a single geographic region. Hosted by Maggie Philbin OBE, the event saw three representatives from CSconnected discuss the cluster’s aims and ...

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ST and Alps develop high-quality Class-D audio amp for cars

STMicroelectronics has tied up with Japanese audio company Alps Alpine to create an automotive class-D audio amplifier IC. Called FDA901, “the chip aims to contribute to the creation of multi-function, high-fidelity car audio systems that fuse the high efficiency of class-D amplifiers with the high-quality sound of ST’s class-AB amplifiers”, according to ST. Called the FDA901, it ...

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