Memory sales are expected to set record highs this year due to fast-rising ASPs but unit shipments are sluggish, says IC Insights. DRAM unit shipments are actually forecast to show a decline this year, while NAND shipments are forecast to increase only 2%. DRAM and NAND ASPs first began increasing in H2 2016, and continued ...
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Driverless car start-up Nauto has raised a $159 million Series B led by Softbank and Greylock Partners. Its Series A in April in 2016 raised $12 million. Other investors are GM, BMW, Toyota and the insurance company Allianz but the company has yet to become a Unicorn, says CEO Stefan Heck. Nauto collects information about ...
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The FBI has warned about the dangers to children of Internet-connected toys. “These toys typically contain sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities – including speech recognition and GPS options,” says the FBI, “these features could put the privacy and safety of children at risk due to the large amount of personal ...
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GaN Systems, the GaN power transistor specialist, has closed an investment round led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures. Consistent with its investment strategy, BMW i Ventures recognizes that GaN Systems’ products maximize the efficiency of electronic systems while dramatically reducing size, weight and overall system cost. The investment will be used to expand ...
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Plessey has extended its LED product portfolio into a variety of mid-power LED packages and now offers lighting equipment manufacturers a complete and competitive portfolio of solid-state lighting products and solutions for all general illumination market applications. Plessey’s mid-power LED product offering, called MIDION, includes products with leading-edge performance with efficacies up to 210 Lm/W, ...
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Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach $266 billion in 2021, says IDC. PAlthough spending growth will slow over the 2016-2021 forecast period, the market is expected to achieve a five-year CAGR of 21.0%. Public cloud services spending will reach $128 billion in 2017, an increase of 25.4% over 2016. ...
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TI has introduced a pair of single-chip buck-boost battery charge controllers for one- to four-cell (1S to 4S) designs. The bq25703A and bq25700A synchronous charge controllers support efficient charging through USB Type-C and other USB ports in end equipment ranging from notebooks and tablets to power banks, drones and smart home applications. To learn ...
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Corelight, the San Francisco cybersecurity specialist, has closed a $9.2 million Series A funding round led by Accel Partners, with participation from Osage University Partners and Riverbed Technology Co-founder Dr. Steve McCanne. The Corelight Sensor is used to investigate and prevent ransomware, denial of service, unauthorized access, misconfiguration, abuse, exfiltration of data, malware infection, insider ...
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Samsung is planning to have a 6nm process in volume production for its foundry business in H2 2019, reports Digitimes. TSMC says it has had 13 tape-outs on 7nm and plans to be in volume production on 7nm in 2018. It is reported to have nine EUV machines on order from ASM pL for delivery ...
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The answer to hacking is the new IBM Z mainframe which encrypts everything. “The vast majority of stolen or leaked data today is in the open and easy to use because encryption has been very difficult and expensive to do at scale,” says IBM’s Ross Mauri, “we created a data protection engine for the cloud ...
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