It looks as if Toshiba will not get regulatory approval for the sale of its memory business to a Bain-Hynix led consortium by the March 31st deadline. Failure to get approval would be vastly beneficial to Toshiba because it could then keep or IPO the unit, or IPO a part of the unit and still ...
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KPMG finds ‘tempered optimism’ for industry prospects in 2018 among semiconductor executives. 57% of semiconductor execs expect increased profitability this year – up from 51% in last year’s survey, says KPMG in the report on its annual survey of execs. Smaller (under $5 billion revenue) companies are more confident than large companies. 37% expect 1-5% ...
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Imec and Renesas have developed a fully-integrated BT5 transceiver with the best RX FoM and a 0.8V supply voltage. The 0.8V supply voltage extends battery life by up to 50%, reduces the complexity of the power management unit, and allows the use of a wider range of energy sources such as energy harvesters. The transceiver consists ...
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The local Chongqing government, Tsinghua Unigroup and Sino IC Capital have set up a $16 billion chip investment fund. They aim to spend up to $100 billion on Tsighua fabs over the next ten years. Tsighua has agreed to spend $9.5 billion on an industrial park in Chongqing Chongqing is an electronics centre which is ...
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It looks as if Toshiba will not get regulatory approval for the sale of its memory business to a Bain-Hynix led consortium by the March 31st deadline. Failure to get approval would be vastly beneficial to Toshiba because it could then IPO the unit, or a part of the unit, and could still retain control.. ...
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ARM has responded to the proliferation of AI-based processor designs with two IPs – one for machine learning and the other for object detection in mobile devices. The ML (machine learning) processor is described by ARM as ‘specifically designed for inference at the edge’. It is said to deliver 4.6 TOPs, with an efficiency of ...
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Weightless SIG has named Applus+ as its official testing and certification laboratory for wireless devices which use Weightless connectivity technology. Applus+ will additionally provide development support services to Weightless technology adopters as part of its new IoT Lab offering. Professor William Webb, CEO of the Weightless SIG commented “Applus are an excellent partner for Weightless, ...
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Wolfspeed has extended its family of 50 V transistors and introduced an unmatched, gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT). The device was created for the growing ultra-high frequency (UHF) radar market, in which defense, public safety and land mobile radio applications seek to upgrade performance and component lifecycle availability by implementing GaN RF ...
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Texas has introduced two families of wide-VIN synchronous DC/DC buck regulators optimised for EMI and thermal performance. The 5-A and 6-A LM73605/6 and 2.5-A and 3.5-A LM76002/3 step-down voltage converters feature an optimized pinout and thermal coefficient to simplify the process of achieving EMI compliance and higher reliability for rugged industrial and automotive power supplies. ...
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Imec has designed and fabricated a 16,384-electrode, 1,024-channel micro-electrode array (MEA) for high-throughput multi-modal cell interfacing. The chip offers intracellular and extracellular recording, voltage- and current-controlled stimulation, impedance monitoring and spectroscopy functionalities thereby packing the most cell-interfacing modalities on a single chip, and being the only one to enable multi-well assays. With this new chip, ...
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