Flash is killing the HDD industry, reports Trendforce. Flash dollars are growing at 55% a year while HDD dollars are shrinking at 5% a year. Q2 NAND flash capacity shipped was about 35 exabytes for $13.2 billion. Q2 HDD capacity shipped was 159.5 exabytes for $5.7 billion. While shipped HDD capacity is still rising, the ...
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Invecas, the three year-old Hyderabad fabless start-up, has bought the HDMI operation of Lattice Semiconductor and its Simplay Labs subsidiary which looks after standards compliance and interoperability testing. Invecas was founded by the former managing director of AMD India, Dasaradha R Gude. “This transaction will be a tremendous addition to our technical capabilities,” says Gude, ...
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Shanghai, has raised a $7.4 billion fund to back the IC industry, reports Digitimes. The intention is to help fabless companies make acquisitions and assist the equipment and materials industries. Last year the Shanghai fund, called the Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Fund (SICIF) raised $3.5 billion with 10% of that coming from the China government’s ...
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Software-defined wide area networks have only been commercially available for a few years but, according to IDC, worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure and services revenues will see a CAGR)p of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021. The most significant driver of SD-WAN growth over the next five years will be digital transformation (DX) in which enterprises ...
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Trillium, the automotive cybersecurity specialist, has bought auto cyber security company CanBusHack. “The addition of CanBusHack’s Red Team and penetration testing expertise is a perfect fit for Trillium, and adds to our already robust range of cybersecurity products, services and training capabilities,” says Trillium CEO, David M. Uze, “now, in addition to providing customers with ...
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Taiwan’s renowned government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is inviting foreign IoT start-ups to visit Taiwan to learn about the island’s electronics industry. ITRI brought advanced IC processing toTaiwan in 1976 by licensing RCA’s 7micron CMOS process and then proceeding to scale it over subsequent generations while spinning it off, along the way, into start-ups ...
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BT has made an offer to the government to spend £600 million on providing 10Mbps broadband access to everyone in the UK. “We already expect 95% of homes and businesses to have access to superfast broadband speeds of 24Mbps or faster by the end of 2017,” says BT CEO Gavin Patterson, “our latest initiative aims ...
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Fujitsu Labs has developed technology that accelerates transaction processing for Hyperledger Fabric, one of the Hyperledger blockchain frameworks hosted by The Linux Foundation. The blockchain is a technology that creates systems with excellent resistance to falsification while preserving high transparency and reliability, all without centralized management. It is expected to have applications in a variety ...
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Renesas reported Q2 sales up 31.7% y-o-y and 12.6% sequentially at $1.7 billion. Operating profit was $270 million and gross margin was 45.7%. For Q3, Renesas expects the same level of sales and margin. . “We have been successfully improving our gross and operating margins by pursuing sales growth and cost containment”, says Renesas CEO ...
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The best operator for 4G coverage in the UK is EE, says Rootmetrics, a division of IHS Markit. EE’s 4G coverage is available to its users 90% of the time across the UK, says Rootmetrics. Next come Vodafone (82%), O2 (81%) and Three (67%). In different UK nations the results vary: In England – EE ...
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