Sales of the top ten semiconductor companies increased 17% in 1H20 compared to 1H19, more than 3x the total worldwide semiconductor industry increase of 5%, reports IC Insights, All of the top-10 companies had sales of at least $5.0 billion in 1H20, two companies more than in 1H19. As shown, it took $5.2 billion in ...
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Qualcomm has won an appeal against an anti-trust suit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission. Qualcomm’s practice of making customers sign broadly drawn patent licence agreements before selling them chips was declared legal. Qualcomm’s practice of requiring patent licences from mobile OEMs which do not use Qualcomm chips was also held to be within ...
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Immervision, the Montreal-based developer and licensor of wide-angle optics and imaging technology, has announced real-time video distortion correction algorithms making the videos the same way we see with our human eyes. The algorithms are available for mobile OEMs to license now from Immervision’s exclusive distribution partner CEVA. The addition of the algorithms to Immervison’s imaging processing ...
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Dialog’s EcoXiP octal xSPI non-volatile memory (NVM) has been optimized for use with Renesas’ RZ/A2M Arm-based MPUs. Customers of the RZ/A2M, which is designed for high-speed processing of embedded AI imaging in smart appliances, service robots, and industrial machinery, can now take advantage of the system-level benefits of EcoXiP, claimed to be the industry’s lowest ...
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DATA MODUL has brought out a modular embedded board family, equipped with the latest i.MX8M processor series and based on the standard Pico ITX 72x100mm form factor. The NXP i.MX8Mmini and its scalability from single-core to quad-core means that the processor has greater processing power, with less power dissipation compared to its predecessor, the i.MX6. ...
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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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