Intel is No.2. After 24 years as the No.1 chip company, Intel slipped below Samsung in Q2 with revenues of $14.8 billion. On Wednesday Samsung reported Q2 chip revenues of $15.7 billion. Intel’s slip to No.2 had been widely predicted in the wake of hugely inflated memory prices. It means that TI’s 25 year reign ...
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Farnell element14 has named Bristol Robotics Laboratory as winner of its ‘Win a Lab Makeover’ competition. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is an academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK and builds on a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and the University of Bristol, and is ...
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In Q2, Samsung’s semiconductor unit made a profit of $7 billion on sales of $15.7 billion. Servers are driving demand for DRAM, particularly 64GB and denser devices, while demand for NAND is expected to grow on the back of new phone launches. For Samsung Electronics as a whole, Q2 profit was $12.68 billion on sales ...
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To celebrate its 20th birthday, Kaspersky Labs is offering free anti virus protection to anyone who wants it. “There are a lot of users who don’t have the ~$50 to spend on premium protection; therefore, they install traditional freebies (which have more holes than Swiss cheese for malware to slip through) or they even rely ...
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The UK is in third place for fintech start-up investment, reports Innovate Finance, with $500 million invested in start-ups in H1 2017. Third cane from US VCs. This was 37% up on H1 2016 but down on the $676 million invested in H1 2015. However, the $500 million is nearly 50% more than the H2 ...
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Maxim has come up with small PMICs for Bluetooth headphones, activity monitors, smart garments, smartwatches, and other size-constrained devices. The MAX77650 / MAX77651 PMICs do not require additional components such as boost, buck, and low dropout (LDO) regulators, a charger and current regulators for LED indicators. Maxim has integrated all these functions into a 19.2mm-squared ...
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Arrow Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Bosch Sensortec. Together, Arrow and Bosch Sensortec will be pursuing opportunities for inertial, environmental and smart sensors in applications including wearables, smart home, building automation, industry 4.0, domestic robots, toys, augmented and virtual reality and drones. As multiple sensors are integrated into single devices and package ...
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As expected, the Foxconn LCD plant promised for the USA is to be in Wisconsin. “Because of you we are also committed to great jobs for Americans,” Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn (pictured) told President Donald Trump, “Mr President, the eagle flies.” Calling Gou “one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs,” Trump said that the investment ...
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June semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings were $2.29 billion, says SEMI, which is 0.8% up on May’$2.27 billion and 33.4% up on the June 2016 figure of $1.72 billion. “Through the first half of the year, 2017 equipment billings are 50% above the same period last year,” says SEMI’s Dan Tracy, “while month-to-month growth is slowing, ...
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IoT appliances are an insecure back door into peoples’ networks, says the Chief Constable of Durham, Mike Barton, who heads up the National Police Chiefs Council on crime operations (pictured). “You’ve got a situation where we don’t know what the security is like in the devices we are buying in the internet of things,’ says ...
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