President Trump will make the final decision on whether a China-backed private equity fund can buy Lattice. Lattice, whose management want to sell it to the China-backed private equity company Canyon Bridge, has filed an 8-k report with the US SEC stating that CFIUS, the committee which vets foreign investors, has ‘indicated’ that it will ...
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A second handset manufacturer has stopped making royalty payments to Qualcomm following the example set by Apple. Qualcomm’s lawyer told the court in the Apple dispute: “One of the largest handset manufacturers in the world has now told us that they have been watching the Apple litigation and they are no longer paying us.” According ...
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Over half of the expected $80.9 billion 2017 capex spending will be for foundries (28%) and upgrades for NAND flash memory (24%), says IC Insights. With a projected 53% increase in 2017, and DRAM prices surging since Q3 2016, the DRAM/SRAM segment is expected to display the largest percentage growth in capital expenditures of the ...
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Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, is about to launch Robusta – an antenna for metal surfaces operating in the 1559-1609 MHz bands, and designed for tracking metal objects. Antenova’s antennas for metal surfaces employ a patented two layer technique with one layer electrically isolated from the other, so as to provide RF shielding to the ...
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Samsung has agreed a budget of $2.3 billion for the first stage of a second fab at Xi’an, in China. The fab, for NAND, is expected to cost $7 billion over the next three years. Samsung’s first fab at Xi’an was built in 2014. Xian Fab 2 will be coming on-line as the Chinese ramp ...
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Flex Logix, the eFPGA soecialist, has joined the TSMC IP Alliance Program included in TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform. Flex Logix has its EFLXÒ Embedded FPGA IP and software tools available for TSMC 16FFC/FF+, TSMC 28HPM/HPC and TSMC 40ULP/LP. For each EFLX IP core in each process, Flex Logix has designed, fabricated and validated a validation ...
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In September, Toshiba is to start shipping the first of two new families of TransMemory USB 3.0 Super Speed Flash drives with densities up to 128GB and read speeds up to 120MB/s. With a maximum read speed of 120MB/s, the TransMemory U363 makes good use of its USB 3.0 connection. This 6 grams device, including ...
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u‑blox SARA-N2 series of NB‑IoT (LTE Cat NB1) modules are enabling Flashnet’s Narrowband IoT (NB‑IoT) connected smart street lighting control system from in Romania, called inteliLIGHT. A pilot project is already deployed on the OTE (Telekom) network in Patras, Greece. Having identified NB‑IoT as strategically important, InteliLIGHT chose to partner with u‑blox on the development of ...
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Socionext, the hardware HEVC encoding specialist, and Advantech, the video acceleration specialist, are to provide live hardware transcoding products for the datacentres supporting MPEG2, AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). Socionext real time dense transcode solution, also known as the “Media Cloud”, enables advanced HEVC compression technology and real-time transcoding capabilities for OTT applications. Socionext’s partnership with Advantech ...
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Renesas is sampling an 8.48 megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor that supports 4K video cameras for security cameras and plans mass production in December. Renesas says that The sensor achieves clear, high-visibility full-color imaging even in a moonlit environment and captures clear, high-visibility images even when digital zoom is used due to its capture of high-reliability 4K ...
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