A successful launch of a 5G phone is likely to make Apple a $2 trillion market cap company. The launch is expected to happen next month. Last night the Nasdaq closed with Apple’s shares $16 short of the $467 price which would make Apple the first commercial company to be valued at $2 trillion. At ...
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TSMC’s July revenues were 12.3% down on June‘s at $3.5 billion. Revenue totalled $24.72 billion for the first seven months of the year, rising 33.6% from the same period in 2019. TSMC expects revenues of between $11.2 billion and $11.5 billion in Q3 2020, which is a 9.3% sequential increase at the midpoint. Strong demand ...
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Imec has made a millimetre-wave motion detection radar at 60GHz fabbed in standard 28nm CMOS. Achieving 2-cm range resolution, the radar is optimized for vital sign monitoring and gesture recognition. The chip consumes 62 mW, making the sensor integrable into small, battery-powered devices. Experiments have demonstrated the sensor’s ability for multi-target detection, heartbeat detection at ...
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Picocom has selected the AndesCoreÔ N25F RISC-V 32-bit core integrated with the AE350 peripherals platform for its forthcoming 5G small cell distributed unit (DU) System-on-Chip (SoC). Picocom is a 5G open RAN baseband semiconductor company with vast experience in the field of small cells. Its chosen partner, Andes Technology, is a leading supplier of high-performance, ...
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Raspberry Pi has come up with a Japanese keyboard. It required a new moulding set to cover the 83-key arrangement of the keys. It’s quite a complex keyboard, with three different character sets to deal with. ‘Figuring out how the USB keyboard controller maps to all the special keys on a Japanese keyboard was particularly ...
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Raspberry Pi has come up with a Japanese keyboard. It required a new moulding set to cover the 83-key arrangement of the keys. It’s quite a complex keyboard, with three different character sets to deal with. ‘Figuring out how the USB keyboard controller maps to all the special keys on a Japanese keyboard was particularly ...
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China has introduced a ten year tax holiday for logic companies which have been in existence for 15 years and use 28nm and better processes. Only two companies in China qualify for the incentive – SMIC and Hua Hong. For companies using nodes between 65nm and 28nm there is a tax incentive worth 50% of ...
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China has introduced a ten year tax holiday for logic companies which have been in existence for 15 years and use 28nm and better processes. Only two companies in China qualify for the incentive – SMIC and Hua Hong. For companies using nodes between 65nm and 28nm there is a tax incentive worth 50% of ...
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Anthony Levandowski, the driverless car guru who left Waymo to join Uber, has been sentenced to 18 months for downloading 14,000 files from a Google computer before he left the company. Levandowski was ordered to pay Google $756,499 in restitution, was fined $95,000 and was ordered to give a talk to 200 people when he comes ...
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Farnell has added Mitsubishi Electric’s variable speed drives, PLCs and HMIs to its industrial automation and process control portfolio. The addition includes sone of the best-selling variable speed drives, Programmable Logic Controls (PLCs) and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) from Mitsubishi Electric. Mitsubishi Electric’s automation and control products are suitable for a wide range of applications ...
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