TSMC is being investigated by the US FTC and the EU for anti-competitive behaviour while holding a dominant market position reports Digitimes quoting the Chinese language site Apple Daily. TSMC says it has received no requests for information and no notification of any investigation from either the EU or FTC. The complaint is said to ...
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Bridgetek has established a design centre on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The centre will complement the activities at its main development hub in Singapore. The team that has initially been recruited consists of almost equal proportions of engineers involved in software development and engineers carrying out IC verification tasks. The plan is to ...
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Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Justice, has ruled that a lower court should re-visit the Intel appeal against its $1.3 billion 2009 fine for anti-competitive practices. “The Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court, which had upheld the fine of 1.06 billion euros imposed on Intel by the Commission ...
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ULEMCo, the company leading the use of ultra-low emission hydrogen-fuelled commercial vehicles in the UK, has just completed the first hydrogen fuel conversion for a UK commercial waste company. Oxfordshire-based Grundon Waste Management selected ULEMCo to carry out the hydrogen diesel dual-fuel conversion for one of its waste disposal trucks. ULEMCo has previously retro-fitted a ...
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u-blox has got Bluetooth 5 qualification for its NINA stand-alone short range radio modules. NINA-B1 modules can be upgraded to run Bluetooth 5 via the Nordic Semiconductor Software Development Kit. Based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52832 chip, the modules offer Bluetooth 5 features such as higher throughput and advertisement extensions. Improved data rate and enhanced data ...
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Chip sales grew 24% in July compared to July 2016 and grew 3.1% compared to June 2017, reports the SIA July 2017 sales were worth $33.6 billion compared to the July 2016 total of $27.1 billion and the June 2017 total of $32.6 billion.u All major regional markets posted both year-to-year and month-to-month increases in ...
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The LTC3779 is a high efficiency (up to 99%) 4-switch single inductor synchronous buck-boost DC/DC controller that operates from input voltages above, below or equal to the regulated output voltage. Its 4.5V to 150V input voltage range is designed to operate from a high input voltage source or from an input that has high voltage ...
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Imec has profuced two 5G building blocks – a SAR ADC operating in the below-6GHz frequency bands (4G/5G) and a 60GHz front-end RF phase shifting and on-chip transmit-receive switching. 5G mobile networks, promise massive connectivity through much higher data rates, lower latency and lower battery consumption than current 4G standards. To realize this, frequencies below ...
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Western Digital has offered to withdraw from the bidding for Toshiba in return for a better deal in its existing jv arrangements, reports Reuters. The move also means, presumably, that WD will drop its legal objections to the sale to anyone else. WD had argued that its jv deal gave it the legal right ...
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Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, has announced three miniature TVS diodes. Using 1 x 0.6 mm (DFN1006-2/SOD882 package) of PCB space and with a height of 0.5 mm, the new PTVS4V5D1BL TVS diode has good clamping characteristics and a typical surge robustness of 38.3 A (8/20 µA pulse), which is industry benchmark ...
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