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Design IP Sales Grew 19.4% in 2021

Design IP Sales Grew 19.4% in 2021 to reach $5.45 billion, reports Eric Esteve’s IPnest in its Design IP Report for May 2022. The feport ranks IP vendors by category (CPU, DSP, GPU & ISP, Wired Interface, SRAM Memory Compiler, Flash Memory Compiler, Library and I/O, AMS, Wireless Interface, Infrastructure and Misc. Digital) and by ...

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Automotive radar market attracting new players

The automotive radar market is expected to reach $12.8 billion by 2027, says Yole Developpement. This market growth will come from 4D and imaging radar. “The first commercial automotive radar was introduced in 2000 for Daimler and BMW cars,” says Yole’s Cédric Malaquin, “during 2020 and 2021, leading radar suppliers launched their 5th-generation radars. Modern ...

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5G mmWave repeater for street lights

Ubicquia, the mobile infrastructure supplier, and Movandi, the 5G mmWave RF specialist, aim to create a mmWave repeater that plugs into a streetlight’s photocell socket. mmWave frequencies provide the gigabit per second throughputs promised by 5G and needed to keep pace with evolving capacity demands. In the US, for example, network operators have spent $4.5 ...

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Rambus to buy Hardent

Rambus is to buy Hardent, the specialist in silicon design, verification, compression, and Error Correction Code (ECC). The acquisition should strengthen the Rambus CXL Memory Interconnect Initiative. “Driven by the demands of advanced workloads like AI/ML and the move to disaggregated data center architectures, industry momentum for CXL-based solutions continues to grow,” says Luc Seraphin, ...

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Graphene-based MPW run

The 2D Experimental Pilot Line (2D-EPL) has launched its first customisable wafer run. One  of five MPW runs, this first phase targets sensor applications. Companies, universities and research institutes can include their designs as dies on joint wafers, to test their ideas for devices on a larger scale at relatively low costs. The 2D-EPL is ...

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Government sets out rules for tech giants

The government has set out plans for how the tech regulator will tackle the dominance of major firms. New ‘fair-play’ rules for the biggest tech firms would make it easier for people to switch between phone operating systems and mean smaller firms are alerted to algorithm changes. There are plans for fines up to 10 ...

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AMD Q1 revenue up 71% y-o-y

AMD had Q1 revenue of $5.9 billion – up 71% y-o-y. Gross margin was 48%, operating income was $951 million, operating margin was 16% and net income  was $786 million. “The first quarter marked a significant inflection point in our journey to scale and transform AMD as we delivered record revenueand closed our strategic acquisition of ...

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O-RAN training course set up

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP), enabling disaggregated telecoms infrastructure networks, has launched the ‘TIP Academy’. TIP sees the need for an industry-led, operator and vendor neutral training service designed to train telecoms workers  to participate in, or lead on, the solution, design, development, testing and deployment of  disaggregated networks. TIP Academy is a B2B learning ...

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