Luxembourg-headquartered private equity outfit, CVC Capital Partners has made an offer for Toshiba thought to be worth $20 billion+. Toshiba CEO and President Nobuaki Kurumatani, who previously worked for CVC, confirmed the offer earlier today and said the Toshiba board would be looking at it later today. The price us likely to be 30% over ...
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Intel has launched its long-awaited 10nm Ice Lake Xeon processors (pictured). 200,000 are already in the hands of customers, says Intel The Big Beast of the range is the 40-core Xeon Platinum 8380. The Sunny Cove core microarchitecture is claimed to deliver a generational IPC gain of around 20%, Intel has returned to revered marketing ploys of 50 ...
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A new regulator to help make sure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online has launched. The Digital Markets Unit (DMU), based in the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will oversee plans to give consumers more choice and control over their data, ...
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February semi sales of $39.6 billion were 14.7% up on the $34.5 billion of February 2020, but 1% down on the $40.1 billion of January 2021, reports the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales during the first two months of the year have outpaced sales from early in 2020, when the pandemic began to spread in parts ...
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Siemens has introduced PCBflow, a secure, cloud-based way to accelerate design-to-manufacturing handoff for PCBs. PCBflow extends Siemens’ Xcelerator portfoliowith a secure environment for PCB design teams to interact with a variety of manufacturers, and by rapidly performing a range of design-for-manufacturing (DFM) analyses in the context of each manufacturers’ process capabilities, which helps customers accelerate ...
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Digi-Key is introducing a power focus campaign with MEAN WELL to provide a range of configurable power supply solutions to their customers. MEAN WELL offers modular power supplies aimed at low-volume and custom-power requirements in medical and industrial markets. “Digi-Key is proud to support these power supply solutions as MEAN WELL works to provide innovative ...
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Cadence has announced its next generation of emulation and prototyping hardware. Both aimed at of multi-billion-gate SoC designs, Palladium Z2 Enterprise Emulation is for pre-silicon hardware debug, and Protium X2 Enterprise Prototyping is for pre-silicon software validation. They follow on from Palladium Z1 and Protium X1. Based on Xilinx UltraScale+ VU19P FPGAs, “these systems provide customers ...
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A fast transparent p-type oxide semiconductor is possible, according to scientists in Australia who have turned theoretical tellurium materials into reality using a novel deposition process. Two-dimensional beta-tellurite is the semiconductor, deposited by rolling a bead of molten tellurium and selenium across the substrate. “This high-mobility p-type oxide fills a crucial gap in the materials ...
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Bulgin has extended the scope of its bespoke solutions capabilities with value-added specialist service delivered by a dedicated rapid-response development team of experienced engineers. This team will liaise directly with clients, in order to gain a detailed understanding of their particular application requirements and the technical challenges involved. From there, a bespoke connector/cabling solution can ...
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Today, Renesas introduced the RX23W Module with full Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy support for system control and wireless communication on IoT endpoint devices. Featuring the RX23W 32-bit RX MCU supporting fully integrated Bluetooth Low Energy communication, the new RX23W module is equipped with an antenna, oscillator and custom-matched circuit. The new module is certified under Radio ...
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