After a surge in Q1 sales, Raspberry Pi is increasing production from Q1’s 192,000 units to 250,000 units in Q2. 1.75 million Pis were sold in Q1 and 640,000 were sold in March. Pi boss Eben Upton said the increase demand came from people using them for home schooling and companies using them to implement ...

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Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of the world’s first adhesive sheet composed of carbon nanotubes with extremely high thermal conductivity of up to 100 W/mK (watt per metre per Kelvin). Carbon nanotubes have high thermal conductivity and represent a promising candidate for heat dissipation from heat sources including semiconductor devices. Nevertheless, the material remains ...

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LeapMind, the eight year-old Tokyo AI startup, showed the results of the performance estimations conducted on its AI inference accelerator at last week’s  COOL Chips 23 event in Tokyo. The implementation of the ASIC design flow was carried out with Taiwan’s Alchip Technologies. Since deep learning technology generally requires a significant amount of computing resources, its ...

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Imagination is off the hook. Canyon Bridge, the China-backed private equity company which owns Imagination, has given assurances to the government that it will remain domiciled in the UK and that it will consult over any board changes. When Canyon Bridge bought Imagination in 2017 it assured the UK government that it would remain subject ...

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The non-memory chip market will be flat this year while the foundry industry will grow 7-13%, reckons TSMC. TSMC expects to  outperform both the semiconductor and the foundry industry with growth of 14-19% this year. Smartphone units are expected to be down 7-9% this year and 5G phones will take 15% of the market. “We ...

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Although all the risk to the current -3% semiconductor industry capital spending forecast for this year is to the downside, it is assumed that most spending will proceed as planned since the vast majority of the outlays are directed at long term goals of process technology advancements and/or additions to wafer start capacity. However, if ...

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TSMC had  Q1 revenue of $10.3 billion for a net profit of $3.85 billion. Y-o-y, Q1 revenue increased 45% while net income and diluted EPS both increased 90.6%. Compared to Q4 2019, Q1 results represented a 2.1% decrease in revenue and a 0.8% increase in net income. Gross margin for the quarter was 51.8%, operating margin ...

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2019 semiconductor  revenue totaled $419.1 billion, down 12% from 2018, according Gartner, but 2020 revenue is expected to hold steady at 0.9% decline. “Oversupply in the DRAM market helped push the overall memory market down 32.7% 2019. The memory market accounted for 26.1% of semiconductor sales in 2019 and was the worst-performing device segment,” says ...

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