Production of electronics has been accelerating in the last several months, contributing to strong growth in the semiconductor market, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. China’s electronics production growth moved from below 10% for most of 2016 to 14.5% in April 2017. China’s April growth rate is the highest in over five years. US electronics production ...
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. Drone startups are transforming the way data is collected, property is inspected, and goods are delivered, says CB Insights, citing 70 drone start-ups with 32 in Q1 valued at $113 million. Terrestrial imagery, infrastructure inspection, and delivery have emerged as some of the primary use cases for drone technology, says CB Insights. The 70 ...
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An email sent to Uber employees asks them to ask the board to bring back Travis Kalanick. Here it is: Kalanick could bring himself back, if he felt like it, because he and a few friends control the voting rights on the shares through an unusual structure which gives their shareholdings ten votes for ...
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ST is to raise $1.5 billion in a convertible bond issue. The company will also redeem its 2019 convertible bonds and buy back shares. The new bonds will mature in five and seven years. The five year bonds will not pay interest. The seven year bonds will pay interest of 0.5%. Settlement is expected to ...
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125.5 million wearable devices will be shipped this year, says IDC, marking a 20.4% increase from the 104.3 million units shipped in 2016. IDC expects the wearables market will nearly double before reaching a total of 240.1 million units shipped in 2021 – a five-year CAGR of 18.2%. Watches: IDC anticipates that watches will account ...
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AMD’s EPYC server chip is driving a rise in AMD shares. EPYC out-performs Intel’s server processors in performance and power and has managed to create an EPYC ecosystem containing server OEMs, ODMs and cloud infrastructure providers. EPYC, which is a scaled up version of its PC CPU Ryzen, beats Intel’s best server processor in memory ...
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Based on its SMART7 thin wafer process , Infineon has introduced two high-side power switch families PROFET+2 and High Current PROFET. The SPOC+2 multichannel SPI high-side power controllers will follow within a year. “In this decade, we have delivered one billion PROFET+ switches, the predecessor family to PROFET+2,” says Infineon vp Andreas Doll, “the SMART7 ...
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The Imagination Technologies Group is up for sale. It put its MiPS business up for sale recently and has now decided to put the whole company on the block.
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4DS Memory, the Australian ReRAM specialist, says it has improved its ReRAM through architectural changes which now make its read times comparable to DRAM. 4DS calls its memory Interface Switching ReRAM and claims it needs minimal error correction. That delivers the faster read speed. 4DS has scaled its technology to 40nm and is now focussed ...
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Intel is to sponsor the Olympics in a bid to promote VR which will probably cost Intel around $100 million. “We’ll allow people online to feel like they are there,” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich (pictured)!0. The Olympics have their own internet-based Olympic Channel and the IOC has been keen to make it mire appealing ...
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