SiFive has raised $61m in a Series E funding round led by existing investors including Intel, Qualcomm and SK Hynix, plus a new investor Prosperity7 Ventures – brings the total investment in SiFive to >$185m since 2015. “Global demand for storage and memory in the data centre is increasing as AI-powered business intelligence and data processing growth ...
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Maxim is aiming at USB-C Power Delivery with a pair of chips: the MAX77958 USB-C PD controller and the MAX77962 28W buck-boost charger. “As portable devices add new technologies such as 5G connectivity and 4K video, many are changing from single-cell to two-series [2S] cell architectures,” according to the company. “With this change, comes the ...
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The British Standards Institution has published its the first taxonomy for specifying the operational design domain of automated driving systems. ‘PAS 1883 Operational design domain (ODD) taxonomy for automated driving systems (ADS)’ is a specification intended to help enable safe automated driving by defining a common language for describing the operating conditions, such type of roads, traffic ...
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Farnell has signed a distribution agreement with passives specialist KOA. Available in the autumn, Farnell’s customers will have access to KOA’s full portfolio with around 1500 lines of in-stock products available for delivery across Europe. In addition to thick film resistors, the product range includes shunt/current sense resistors, wide terminal resistors, high voltage resistors, thin ...
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A successful launch of a 5G phone is likely to make Apple a $2 trillion market cap company. The launch is expected to happen next month. Last night the Nasdaq closed with Apple’s shares $16 short of the $467 price which would make Apple the first commercial company to be valued at $2 trillion. At ...
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TSMC’s July revenues were 12.3% down on June‘s at $3.5 billion. Revenue totalled $24.72 billion for the first seven months of the year, rising 33.6% from the same period in 2019. TSMC expects revenues of between $11.2 billion and $11.5 billion in Q3 2020, which is a 9.3% sequential increase at the midpoint. Strong demand ...
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Imec has made a millimetre-wave motion detection radar at 60GHz fabbed in standard 28nm CMOS. Achieving 2-cm range resolution, the radar is optimized for vital sign monitoring and gesture recognition. The chip consumes 62 mW, making the sensor integrable into small, battery-powered devices. Experiments have demonstrated the sensor’s ability for multi-target detection, heartbeat detection at ...
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