Samsung has made a ‘significant’ investment in DeePhi Tech, an AI IC specialist founded last year by four graduates from Tsinghua University and Stanford, reports The Korea Times. ‘We provide end-to-end solutions utilising deep compression and a DPU platform. Leveraging the optimisation of co-designed neural networks and FPGAs, DeePhi provides more efficient, convenient and economical ...

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Leti is about to kick off a new European Horizon 2020 project called ModulED to develop innovative electric drivetrains for electric vehicles. Coordinated by Leti, the three-year, €7.2 million project includes the companies BRUSA Elektronik AG (Switzerland), Punch Powertrain NV (Belgium), ZG GmbH (Germany), Siemens (France), Efficient Innovation (France); universities RTWH Aachen University, Chalmers University ...

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Intel Capital has invested $60 million in 15 start-ups in the big data area which takes the amount of start-up capital it has invested this year to $566 million. “The world is undergoing a data explosion,” says the president of Intel Capital Wendell Brooks (pictured) , “by 2020, every autonomous vehicle on the road will ...

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SEMI’s September billings report shows billings of $2.03 billion which is 6.9% lower than the August level of $2.18 billion, and is 36% higher than the September 2016 billings level of $1.49 billion.   “Global semiconductor equipment billings of North American headquartered suppliers for September were $2.0 billion, down 12% from the peak level set ...

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Qualcomm is to get together with China’s AI specialist unicorn SenseTime to develop AI for mobile. ‘The companies expect to drive the popularity and development of on-device AI in areas such as innovative vision and camera-based image processing,’ says the announcement, ‘devices such as smartphones and connected cameras are becoming more intelligent with the proliferation ...

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Renesas will issue an expanded e² studio integrated software development environment in Q1 which ugrades  e² studio for R-Car V3M with various features to boost the performance of ADAS and automated driving applications. e² studio  is an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open-source Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) software and supports other Renesas devices ...

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Mouser has signed embedded systems specialist Auvidea. Mouser will stock Auvidea’s J1xx family carrier boards for the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 and TX2 compute modules. The J100 board matches the Jetson TX1 module’s 50 × 87 mm footprint and connects to form a very compact processing unit to meet the compact size requirements of target applications such ...

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Nanya president Lee Pei-Pung expects DRAM prices to rise in Q1. – usually a down quarter. “DRAM prices still have room to go up in the first quarter of 2018, a traditional low season for memory chips, thanks to healthy demand and tight supplies,” says Lee. Lee reckons that the price will stay high all ...

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GaN Systems has an evaluation board available which uses the world’s fastest combination of GaN power transistors and power drivers. Combining best-in-class GaN transistors with the fastest commercially available GaN transistor driver on the GS61004B evaluation board, the GS61004B-EVBDC evaluation platform is now available with the latest in high-speed GaN E-HEMT drivers from Peregrine Semiconductor. ...

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