350.9 million smartphones were shipped in Q2 up from  320 million in Q2 2016, says IHS. Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo grew, while Xiaomi shrank and missed out on a top-five spot. Samsung shipped 79.4 million smartphones in the quarter, up 3% from the 77.4 million shipped in Q2 2016, but market share slipped ...

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The Wannacry hero who stopped the stopped the ransomware cyber attack on the NHS in May, has been arrested in the USA for cyber offences in 2014 and 2015. Marcus Hutchins from Devon (pictured) was credited with stopping the spread of Wannacry which was infecting the computers of NHS Trusts and forcing hospitals to abandon ...

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AI has become an area of intense M&A activity with big companies like Google, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Apple, Samsung, GE, Ford and Salesforce buying start-ups. Over 250 private companies using AI algorithms in different industries have been acquired since 2012, with 37 acquisitions taking place in Q1 2017, says CB Insights. Google is the most active ...

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Xiaomi captured 17%  marketshare in the 22 million unit wearables market in Q2.and became the world’s largest wearables vendor, overtaking Fitbit and Apple, says Strategy Analytics. “Global wearables shipments reached 21.6 million units in Q2 2017, rising 8 percent annually from 20.0 million in Q2 2016,” says Strategey Analytics’ Steven Waltzer, “strong demand for low-cost ...

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Globalfoundries and Silicon Mobility have  produced an automotive Field Programmable Controller Unit (FPCU) solution, called OLEA T222.  PDKs are available. The FPCU uses GF’s 55nm Low Power Extended (55LPx) process, which is currently in volume production at GloFo’s Singapore fab, and  Silicon Storage Technology’s (SST) SuperFlash memory IP. OLEA T222 allows automotive processing to be fully deterministic ...

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NXP’s Q2 revenues were down 7% y-o-y and flat sequentially at $2.2 billion. Debt was $6.55 billion, up from Q1’s $6.51 billion and cash was $2.64 billion,up from Q1’s $2.24 billion, resulting in net debt of $3.91 billion, a decline from Q1’s $4.27 billion.. Cash flow from operations was $441 million, down from Q1’s $625 ...

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Toshiba says it will go ahead with a $1.76 billion investment to build a new generation of 3D NAND without the involvement of its jv fab partner Western Digital which is saying it wants to be involved. Toshiba says the $1.76bn investment is $135 million more than it would have been had WD participated. However, ...

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Nanusens, the three year-old Barcelona sensor company, says  its CMOS nano-sensor technology has solved the problem of stiction in MEMS inertial sensors. “Our first silicon nano-sensor samples from GLOBALFOUNDRIES exceeded our expectations showing outstanding resilience to stiction, with the devices going through more than 10,000 switching cycles, each equivalent to more than 1000G shocks,” says Nanusens’ ...

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Smartphone shipments grew 6% to reach 360 million units in Q2 2017, says Strategy Analytics. Samsung maintained first position with 22% global smartphone marketshare, while Apple dipped to 11% share and Xiaomi surged 58% annually and rejoined the top five rankings for the first time in a year. Samsung shipped 79.5 million smartphones worldwide in ...

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