Nvidia’s Q3 revenue was down 5% y-o-y at $3.01 billion and the company expects Q4 revenue of $2.95 billion. Gaming chip revenues were down 6% y-o-y at $1.66 billion but up 26% sequentially. Nvidia says it sees growth in chips for conversational AI. “This quarter, we have laid the foundation for where AI will ultimately ...
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Stealthy, three year-old, processor start-up Groq says it has developed a single chip architecture which can deliver 1PetaOps/sec performance. Groq calls its architecture Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP). Two years back it said it had recruited eight of the ten people who developed Google’s Tensor Processing Unit ((TPU). The company has raised $62.3 million in funding. ...
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iFixit has completed a teardown of the Huawei Mate 30 and this is what it found: 6.53″ OLED display with a resolution of 2400 × 1176 (~409.29 ppi) Huawei Kirin 990 processor with 8-core CPU, 16-Core Mali-G76 GPU, and Neural Processing Unit Quadruple rear cameras—40 MP ƒ/1.8, 40 MP ƒ/1.6, 8 MP ƒ/2.4 with 3x optical zoom, ...
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Applied Materials had calendar Q3 revenue of $3.75 billion with a margin of 43.5% and operating income of $864 million. For its full fiscal year to September 30th, Applied generated revenue of $14.61 billion with a gross margin of 43.7% and operating income of $3.35 billion. “Applied Materials’ fourth quarter results reflect a healthy uptick ...
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Motorola’s Razr has been resurrected. Here it is folded: And here it is unfolded: And these are the underwhelming specs: Main internal folding screen: 21:9 aspect ratio, 2142 x 876 pixels, 6.2-inch POLED (plastic OLED) Front screen: 4:3 aspect ratio, 800 x 600 pixels, 2.7-inch GOLED (glass OLED) 16MP main camera, f/1.7 aperture (no ultra-wide ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Bluetooth specialist SEARAN. The SEARAN product line, now available from Mouser Electronics, provides developers with the company’s royalty-free software development kits (SDKs), which support devices from semiconductor manufacturers, including ST, TI, Microchip, Marvell, and Renesas. SEARAN’s wireless audio player software (Linux or FreeRTOS) and wireless speaker software ...
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Kioxia-Toshiba, is sampling a 512GB UFS JEDEC Version 2.1 embedded memory module. The device supports a temperature range of -40°C to +105°C , meets AEC-Q100 Grade 2 requirements and offers the extended reliability required by various automotive applications. The memory the company’s existing lineup of Automotive UFS, which includes capacities of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and ...
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While Level 5 ADAS – full autonomous driving on all roads in all conditions – gets the attention, the reality of the technical capability is ‘Level 2+’, says the CEO of Infineon Reinhard Ploss (pictured). “With regard to the increasing pervasiveness of advanced driver assistance systems, we are observing an acceleration of Level 1 and ...
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The 2018 market for racks grew 3.4% to reach $1.5 billion, while the rack power distribution unit (rPDU) segment expanded by 8.9% to total $1 billion, says IHS Markit. Cloud and colocation service providers deployed racks and rPDUs at the fastest growth rate among all purchasers, with near double-digit growth relative to 2017. On-premises data ...
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Mouser has released Prototyping with Purpose, the second eBook from Engineering Big Ideas, the newest series in Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together programme. In the new eBook, experts from Mouser and the electronics industry walk through the design process, discussing tools, software methodology, circuit design, and the final integration into a solid prototype. “The prototype stage is ...
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