Samsung Electronics has reported a Q2 operating profit of $6.86 billion up 26% sequentially and 23% y-o-y. The profits growth came mainly from chips and displays. Revenue was $44.5 billion down 4% sequentially any and 6% y-oy. The company’s semiconductor capex budget this year is $12.4 billion. Earnings from Samsung’s memory business improved in Q2, ...
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NAND Flash and DRAM will remain the largest IC markets in 2020 accounting for a third of total IC sales this year, says IC Insights. IC Insights’ Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2020, ranks the 33 largest IC product categories based on their expected sales and unit shipment volumes. The five largest of these IC ...
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A new way of imaging – harnessing AI to turn time into visions of 3D space – has been found by researchers at Glasgow University, the Polytechnic University of Milan and Delft University of Technology. The discovery could help cars, mobile devices and health monitors develop 360-degree awareness. Photos and videos are usually produced by capturing ...
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Kyocera is presenting MIP Technology (Memory in Pixel) as a way to lower power LCDs. All the pixels include an SRAM resulting in a power consumption for static image down to 5µW. By the power saving pixel selection method, only the selected pixel were driven. Which is different to the line selection method As well ...
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Infineon has introduced an IGBT power module tailored to the needs of electric vehicle traction inverters in the 80 kW to 100 kW power class: the HybridPACK DC6i. This six pack module is optimized to deliver an excellent fit of system cost and performance to hybrid and small battery electric vehicles. It combines Infineon’s EDT2 ...
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£30m of public and private funding aims to combine industrial ingenuity with 5G technology Projects in Sunderland, Preston, Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton and Suffolk have been announced by the DcMS. The use of AI-controlled traffic lights to reduce pollution and congestion will be tested in Manchester and the potential for remote music festivals using 5G will ...
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element14 has announced the winning designs of its “Fighting Germs” Design Challenge, where participants helped to fight COVID-19 by creating projects that protect vulnerable populations and help people cope with the crisis. The Grand Prize winner, Shabaz Yousaf from the UK, created contact-less virtual buttons that are motion-sensor based, allowing the user to make selections without ...
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China’s 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) will include a 40% expansion in foundry capacity and a move to 7nm processing, says Digitimes Research. China’s IC manufacturing industry is planned to double to $34.28 billion in 2020 from 2016, and may also move 12nm to production by the end of the year after having volume produced 14nm ...
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Huawei shipped more smartphones worldwide than any other vendor for the first time in Q2 2020, says Canalys. It is the first quarter in nine years that a company other than Samsung or Apple has led the market. Huawei shipped 55.8 million devices, down 5% year on year. But second-placed Samsung shipped 53.7 million ...
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SiTime is sampling a differential MEMS oscillator for 100G – 800G optical modules. Volume production is planned for Q1 2021. The SiT9501 is for applications such as datacentre switches, telecom routers, edge servers, AI/graphics cards, and storage controllers. “Over the past 15 years, SiTime has developed and shipped two generations of MEMS resonators that are used ...
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