Qualcomm’s China business is back to the same level it was a year ago, Qualcomm CEO, Steve Mollenkopf (pictured) told CNBC yesterday. “The sun has come up in China with respect to how they’ve returned to a normal state,” said Mollenkopf. Qualcomm gets about half its total revenues from China. “At the end of January ...
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After months of shortages, Intel CEO Bob Swan (pictured) has posted an open letter on the company’s web-site saying that Intel’s deliveries are 90% on-time. “I am equally inspired by the deep commitment of our teams to sustain our manufacturing, assembly, test and supply chain operations in Oregon, New Mexico, California and Arizona, as well ...
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CyanConnode, the AIM-listed Cambridge specialist in narrowband RF Smart Mesh Networks, has added cellular capability to its Omnimesh platform. Omnimesh is an open standards platform and it is currently being applied to the future-proofing of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) communications for utilities. The Omnimesh cellular products deliver end-to-end communication across both public and private carrier networks. ...
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ST has made a small-footprint addition to its USB-C controller family designed and certified for pure 5V sink-only applications. All mandatory features to use the USB-C connector as a 5V universal power plug are integrated, allowing designers to implement USB-C charging solutions quickly and easily without studying the standard or writing code. USB-C is rapidly becoming ...
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ST has agreed to cut production at its French plants by up to 50% according to the French unions. The unions involved are the CFE-CGC and the CFDT. The head of the CFDT union, Eric Potard, said that workers will stay at home on a rotating basis and keep all their pay whether they work ...
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The current constraints on consumer spending could lead to a boom in spending on electronics products later this year, suggests Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The National Bureau of Statistics of China reported combined January and February 2020 production of mobile phone units was down 34% from a year ago, and the total value of Chinese ...
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Propelled by 51% share of IDM sales and 65% share of fabless sales, U.S. companies captured 55% of the total worldwide IC market in 2019, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows U.S. companies held 55% of the total worldwide IC market in 2019 followed by the South Korean companies with a 21% share, down six ...
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Samsung Electronics will stick with its investment plans despite the coronavirus, and intends to take process technology leadership in the foundry business away from TSMC. “High technology will be more important in the foundry market,” said Samsung Electronics CEO Kim Ki-nam (pictured) yesterday, “in that sense, Samsung’s foundry has never been behind Taiwan, and in ...
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The current constraints on consumer spending could lead to a boom in spending on electronics products later this year, suggests Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The National Bureau of Statistics of China reported combined January and February 2020 production of mobile phone units was down 34% from a year ago, and the total value of Chinese industrial production ...
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Spark Microsystems of Montreal is sampling a series of low power UWB wireless transceiver ICs for short-range wireless connectivity. Production is planned for Q3. The SR1000 transceiver series offers an extremely low latency symmetrical bi-directional data link coupled with ultra-low power consumption and provides high quality of service in order to support the uninterrupted low ...
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