Samsung has overtaken Intel to become the world No.1 semiconductor company. Samsung’s estimated chip revenue for Q2 is $15.1 billion and Intel’s $14.4 billion, according to Nomura. For the full year, forecasts put Samsung’s chip sales at $63.6 billion and Intel’s at $60.5 billion. Intel needed to beat Samsung this year to match TI’s record ...
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The EU has imposed a $2.7 billion fine on Google for abuse of a dominant market position – the highest fine the EU has ever imposed. If it doesn’t end its anti-competitive practices within 90 days Google faces further fines of up to 5% of its $90 billion annual revenues. The EU found that Google ...
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Imec has set up a $100-120 million VC fund called Imec.xpand to back early stage tech start-ups. So far it has raised €60 million and it it is targetting €120 million. Investors include investment agencies of the Flemish and Federal government, the universities KU Leuven and UGent, BNP Paribas Fortis, and the investment arms of ...
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ZTE’s chip unit, ZTE Microcircuits, which changed its nane to Sanechips, has licensed the CEVA-X1 IoT processor. Sanechips wants the Ceva IP for its Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) product, the RoseFinch7100. Sanechips recently took part in the first large scale field test of NB-IoT using its pre-commercial RoseFinch chipset. The trial, organized by China Mobile, tested ...
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The LTC3636 and LTC3636-1 are high efficiency, 4MHz synchronous dual output buck regulators that incorporate a unique constant frequency/controlled on-time, current mode control scheme with phase lockable switching frequency. Ther innovative design architecture reduces conducted and radiated emissions. The devices can deliver up to 6A of continuous output current from each channel or generate a ...
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In August Bosch Sensortec will put out to distribution a family of MEMS acceleration sensors specifically designed for motion and fitness tracking in wearables. They include an optimized step counter for wearables integrated directly in the sensor, with no additional external microcontroller required. Typical applications for the BMA456 and BMA423 include step counting in wearables such ...
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Arrow and NXP have developed to a system module (SCM) that simplifies the use of NXP’s i.MX 6 applications processor in IoT devices, wearables and smart-home technology. Building on NXP’s DDR-ready i.MX 6SoloX, i.MX 6Dual and i.MX 6Quad SCMs, Arrow’s modules come with pre-stacked LPDDR2 SDRAM, and are ready to use. This solution takes away ...
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Western Digital’s CEao has weitten to Toshiba objecting to the presence of Hynix in the winning for Toshiba’s menory business, reports the New York Times. “I must make it clear that Western Digital will not consent to a transaction with the proposed consortium,” says WD CEO Stephen Milligan in a letter sent to Toshiba’s board ...
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The House of Commons says it is working with the National Cyber Security Centre, which was set up last year as part of GCHQ, and has shut down MPs’ remote access to the parliamentary email system. The system was hit by a hacking attack which resulted in MPs’ passwords being sold on-line. “We’ve seen reports ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a technology to retrieve similar disease cases from a computed tomography (CT) database of previously taken images. The technology works by retrieving similar cases of abnormal shadows expanding in a three-dimensional manner. Technologies already exist to retrieve similar cases based on CT images for such diseases as early-stage lung cancer, in ...
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