ST had Q2 revenues of $1.92 billion; up 5.6% sequentially and up 12.9% year-over-year. The Q2 gross margin was 38.3% and the operating margin before impairment and restructuring was 9.6%. H1 net revenues were $3.74 billion, net income was $258 million and free cash flow was $113 million. ST’s capital structure was strengthened in July with ...
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Cavium is sampling two new families of 10GbE/25GbE optimized programmable Ethernet switches The XP70 scales from 1Tbps to 1.8Tbps and provides seamless 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T and 10GbE to 25GbE access connectivity upgrades for enterprise, data center, and carrier networks with support for 40GbE/100GbE uplink connectivity. The XP60 family brings programmable Ethernet switching capabilities to the ...
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Infineon has come out with a linear FET series it calls OptiMOS. This new product family combines the (R DS(on)) of a trench MOSFET with the wide Safe Operating Area of a planar MOSFET. This solves the trade-off between R DS(on) and linear mode capability. The OptiMOS Linear FET can operate in the saturation region of ...
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Qualcomm has brought out a SDK for its Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (NPE). The NPE provides developers with software tools to accelerate deep neural network workloads on mobile and other edge devices powered by Snapdragon processors. Developers can choose the Snapdragon they want – the Kryo CPU, Adreno GPU or Hexagon DSP. Developers can use deep ...
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Apple is to build three manufacturing plants in the USA, according to President Donald Trump. President Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he’d talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured) about manufacturing in America. “I said you know, Tim, unless you start building your plants in this country, I won’t consider my administration ...
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Element14 has announced winners of its ‘Upcycle it’ design challenge. Sponsored by Intel, element14 challenged 15 community members to Upcycle an unwanted or waste product to give it a new or enhanced lease of life. The application areas for this challenge and ability to use unlimited components to complete an original electronics-based project offered true ...
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LG says it is putting $7 billion into OLED production plants. LG is putting $870 million into its jv plant in Guangzhou, China to make OLEDs in a foreign factory for the first time. The Guangzhou plant currently makes LCD panels and the intention is to use it to make 65 inch and bigger OLED ...
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A re-hab centre for hackers has opened in Bristol in an experiment which could be extended across the country. The camp has been set up by the National Crime Agency (NCA). The idea is to divert potential cyber-criminals into useful cyber-security work. The first seven attendees are people caught engaging in cyber-crimes like defacing websites, ...
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Infineon will enter the packaged silicon microphone market with samples of high performance, low noise MEMS microphones in Q4. Volume production starts in Q1 2018.. The analogue and digital microphones are based on Infineon’s dual backplate MEMS technology with a 70 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a distortion level of 10% at a 135 dB ...
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Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were up 4.2% on Q1, says SEMI’s Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Total Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were 2,978 million square inches up from the 2,858 million square inches shipped in Q1. New quarterly total area shipments are 10.1% higher than Q2 2016 shipments and are at their highest recorded quarterly ...
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