Qualcomm is to buy the two year-old processor IP startup Nuvia for $1.4 billion. Nuvia was founded in 2019 by former Apple and Google executives to design chips for data centres. It raised nearly $300 million in venture capital. Qualcomm says it plans to incorporate Nuvia’s CPUs across its portfolio, using them in smartphones, laptops, ...
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Available from Cambridge-based Components Bureau, the Excelsys CoolX 3000 series by Advanced Energy is packaged in a small form factor (300 x 131 x 120mm), for a smaller footprint in harsh industrial and medical applications. The intelligent, user-configurable modular power supply offers analogue and digital management. It is equipped with up to 24 isolated outputs, ...
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TSMC announced this morning that it is budgeting between $25 billion to $28 billion for capex this year, up from $17.2 billion in 2020. Around 80% of that amount will be allocated to 7nm, 5nm and 3nm processes with 10% going 3D chip-stacking and packaging tech. Most of it will be going to 3nm which is ...
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Xpeng Motors has selected u-blox F9 precision GNSS receiver for its P7 electric car. F9 receives GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou satellite positioning signals and has been incorporated into the vehicle’s Xpilot 3.0 ADAS (driver assistance system) for use in navigation-guided driving, automated parking and autonomous driving. “For instance, once a navigation destination is set ...
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Intel is planning to begin mass production of Core i3 CPUs on TSMC’s 5nm node in 2H21, says TrendForce, while its mid-range and high-end CPUs are projected to enter mass production using TSMC’s 3nm node in 2H22. TrendForce believes that Intel will keep in-house production lines for chips with high margins. TSMC offers a diversity ...
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OmniVision and Nextchip – the automotive vision specialist – have come up with a product that is pre-tuned to provide high quality images for rearview cameras (RVCs), surround-view systems (SVS) and e-mirrors in low-end and midrange vehicles. The board includes OmniVision’s OX03C10, which combines a 3.0 micron pixel, high dynamic range (HDR) of up to 140dB ...
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After four years in the position, Dr Graham Turnock is stepping down from the role of Chief Executive at the UK Space Agency (UKSA). Turnock has been in position for four years and will leave later this year. “It has been an immense privilege to serve as UK Space Agency Chief Executive during one of ...
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Seeed, BeagleBoard and StarFive have created BeagleV – a RISC-V board designed to run Linux for $149. The board will be available for early access in March with larger availability in September. Starting from the release on January 13th, there are limited quantities at release, with all customers for the first batch of the 8GB ...
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