ST is extending the uses of its motion-detection machine-learning core (MLC) technologies into industrial and high-end consumer applications with the LSM6DSRX 6-axis iNEMO inertial measurement units (IMU). The MLC performs basic AI pre-processing of motion data using about 0.001 times the power a typical MCU would consume to complete the same task. As a result, ...
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AMD is sticking to its $1.8 billion revenue forecast for Q1. “Our best visibility is that the impact in the first quarter will be modest,” says CEO Lisa Su (pictured). Su is aiming for 20% sales CAGR over the next five years, with the big datacentre companies which design their own servers – the so-called ...
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Imec and CST Global of Glasgow, the designer and manufacturer of III-V compound semiconductors for photonics products, have integrated InP distributed feedback (DFB) lasers from CST Global’s InP100 platform into Imec’s integrated silicon photonics platform (iSiPP). Interfaces for hybrid integration of InP DFB lasers and reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOA) will become available as part ...
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The coronavirus will hit smartphone production by 13.3% y-o-y in Q1 and by 3,5% over the full year, says TrendForce. Q1 phone production is now forecast at 270 million units down from previous estimates of 307 million followed by 318 million units in Q2 which is down 7.4% on previous estimates. Problems have been uneven factory ...
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Researchers at UCLA and the Universities of Waterloo and British Columbia have combined silicone rubber with ultra-thin lsyers of graphene to make a material for 3D-printed durable, flexible sensors for wearable devices. When the material bends or moves, electrical signals are created by the highly conductive, nanoscale graphene embedded within its engineered honeycomb structure. “Silicone ...
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Infineon’s $8.7 billion bid for Cypress could be blocked by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS). The proposed takeover of Cypress by Infineon was announced last June. The news site for regulatory affairs, MLex Market Insight, reported that Infineon and Cypress have filed and pulled and refiled submissions to CFIUS and a ...
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Kurt Seivers (pictured) is to take over as NXP’s CEO from Rick Clemmer. Clemmer has been CEO since 2009 when he took over from Frans van Houten now CEO of Philips. In 2006, a private equity consortium led by KKR had bought NXP and Clemmer dealt with the aftermath of that transaction IPO-ing the company ...
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Mellanox is to buy pattern-matching specialist Titan IC of Belfast to accelerate its search and data analytics programmes and strengthen Mellanox’s network intelligence capabilities. Titan IC’s team in Belfast will become the centre network intelligence R&D for Mellanox. “We have worked with Mellanox for many years to integrate our RXP regular expression processor into their advanced line ...
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Though growth rates in some product categories have slowed, doubling of transistors per chip every two years remains a guideline that the industry continues to follow, days IC Insights. IC Insights’ 2020 edition of The McClean Report shows how over the past five decades, DRAMs, flash memories, microprocessors, and graphics processors have tracked Moore’s Law (Figure ...
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Ranovus of Ottawa, the datacentre interconnect specialist, has brought out a photonics interconnect called Odin which is based on ICs which can each handle 3.2Tbs. The image shows 16 of these ICs on a board capable of delivering 51.2Tbs. The interconnect comprises Ranovus’ multi-wavelength Quantum Dot Laser (QDL), 100 Gbps silicon photonics based Micro Ring ...
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