The US Department of Commerce has ruled that companies must get a licence to sell to Huawei any ICs which “are the direct product of certain US software and technology.” This would include any IC designed by US EDA or fabbed on US-made manufacturing equipment. Huawei has continued to use US EDA to design circuits ...
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TSMC is to build a $12 billion 5nm 20k wpm fab in Arizona. The US government has been pressuring the company to build a fab in the USA after worries about US reliance on Asian fabs for advanced chips. “This project is of critical, strategic importance to a vibrant and competitive U.S. semiconductor ecosystem that ...
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France struck another blow at the US tech companies yesterday when the French parliament passed a law saying that social media companies must take down some objectionable content within 24 hoist of it being flagged up and, in certain cases, within an hour. The content that must be removed within 24 hours includes comments based ...
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CHIPS Alliance has announced enhancements to the RISC-V SweRV Core EH2 and SweRV Core EL2, developed for the open-source community by Western Digital. Since the introduction of the cores earlier this year, the CHIPS Alliance has worked with its community to exhaustedly validate the cores through a transparent and rigorous process, as well as incorporate ...
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Today SK Telecom presents the Galaxy A Quantum, the world’s first 5G smartphone equipped with a quantum random number generator (QRNG) in cooperation with Samsung Electronics and ID Quantique. The company will open pre-order for the Galaxy A Quantum from May 15 to 21, 2020 and officially launch the device on May 22, 2020 in ...
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HUBER+SUHNER claims to have the world’s first cooled charging cable system that allows continuous charging at 500 Amperes even in high-temperature environments. The HPC500 cable and connecter adds to builds on the the HPC400 family and field experience in cooled cable solutions for EV charging stations. Several improvements and new features make the system ready ...
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Applied Materials had Q2 revenue up 12% y-o-y at $3.96 billion with a gross margin of 44.2% and operating income of $932 million. “As we navigate the challenges created by COVID-19, we have rallied the company around safety, productivity and keeping our customers and the industry moving forward,” says CEO Gary Dickerson, “while the situation ...
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A compact infrared LED from Osram, called Oslon Piccolo, enables gesture control in car interiors Gesture recognition delivers new ways of interacting with displays. For example, when navigating to a destination, the vehicle displays a map with the corresponding route. At the edges of the image, different menu items for operating the display are shown ...
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Aspinity, the Pittsburgh analogue machine learning IC specialist, is joining up with Infineon to bring together Aspinity’s Reconfigurable Analogue Modular Processing (RAMP) technology with Infineon’s XENSIVTM sensor family. Aspinity’s RAMP chip is an analogue machine learning chip that can analyse raw, unstructured analogue sensor data to determine which data are important at the start of ...
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Sony is about to launch intelligent vision sensors – image sensors equipped with AI processing. Including AI processing on the image sensor enables high-speed edge AI processing and extraction of only the necessary data, which, when using cloud services, reduces data transmission latency, minimizes any privacy concerns, and reduces power consumption and communication costs. AI-enhanced ...
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