Picocom licenses CEVA for small cell chip

Picocom has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XC12 DSP in its forthcoming distributed unit (DU) baseband offload System-on-Chip (SoC) for 5G small cells. Picocom is a semiconductor company that designs and markets products for 5G New Radio infrastructure. Along with Airspan, Intel, IP Access and Qualcomm, Picocom is a key contributor to the Small Cell Forum ...

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COM Express Type 6 module with AMD Ryzen

Congatec has announced a COM Express Type 6 module with AMD Ryzen Embedded V1404I Series processors for use across -40°C to +85°C. Called conga-TR4, it is available with optional burn-in and cold-soak stress screening for increased reliability. “The most demanding graphics and compute workloads benefit from the modules’ four cores, eight threads and eight GPU ...

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ISSCC 2020: RC oscillator hits 6.15ppm/°C

After delving into Texas Instrument’s crystal-replacing bulk acoustic wave (BAW) oscillator recently, Electronics Weekly is taking a look at an advanced version of the humble RC oscillator, reported at the International Solid State Circuits Conference earlier this year (ISSCC 2020). The work of Delft University of Technology, the 180nm CMOS oscillator has been given so ...

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Microsoft Q1 up 15% – unaffected by virus

Announcing Q1 revenues up 15% y-o-y for a net profit up 22% y-o-y of  $10.8 billion, Microsoft said: “COVID-19 had minimal net impact on the total company revenue.” ‘In the Productivity and Business Processes and Intelligent Cloud segments, cloud usage increased, particularly in Microsoft 365 including Teams, Azure, Windows Virtual Desktop, advanced security solutions, and ...

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RetroPie 4.6 launched with beta support for Raspberry Pi 4

RetroPie 4.6 has been launched with official support for Raspberry Pi 4. RetroPie 4.6 has moved to Raspbian Buster as a base for its pre-built Raspberry Pi images. Raspbian Stretch is no longer supported by Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd. RetroPie will continue to support Stretch for a while longer, but will likely stop updating binaries ...

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HiSilicon beats Qualcomm in China AP market

HiSilicon, the IC design arm of Huawei, has overtaken Qualcomm in the China domestic smartphone AP market, according to CINNO Research, a China analyst. In Q1 2030, HiSilicon had a 43.9% market share of the China AP market, says CINNO, compared to Qualcomm’s 32.8%. This represents a sharp reversal from Q1 2019, when HiSilicon had ...

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5-9% 2020 foundry growth

The foundry market will grow at 5-9% this year with a median of 6.8% forecasts TrendForce. In Q1 foundry clients refrained from large-scale cutbacks in orders, as clients took into account the possibility of rebounding demand in the market after the pandemic’s eventual slowdown and aimed to avoid component shortages. In addition, foundry clients’ stock-up demand ...

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Bosch ramps up

Bosch had 2019 revenues of €77.7 billion. Europe accounted for €40.8 billion, North America, for €13 billion, South America for €1.4 billion and Asia Pacific (including Africa) for €19.6 billion pounds. After shutting down production at nearly 100 Bosch locations worldwide this month, the company is systematically preparing for a gradual ramp-up of manufacturing. “We ...

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