According to China government data, factory output of smartphones was 17% up in April compared to April 2019. While production appears to be back on track, the unknown for smartphone manufacturers is whether demand is there to absorb the production. 40.8 million handsets were shipped in April, up from 34.8 million in April 2019, according ...
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Farnell is shipping the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera with a 12-megapixel ultra-definition-resolution camera and interchangeable lenses. The camera is the first-of-its-kind to hit the market and is ideal for professional and consumer applications which require the highest levels of visual fidelity and integration with specialist optics. The camera can effectively capture still images and ...
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Ericsson has upped its forecast for global 5G subscriptions from 2.6 billion to 2.8 billion by 2025. “More than ever, connectivity is key,” says CEO Borje Ekholm. “With the spread of Covid-19, fixed and mobile telecommunications networks have become an even bigger part of the critical infrastructure, showing the importance of quality in the connectivity. ...
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The government appears to have hedged its bets on its coronavirus tracking app by giving a contract to the Swiss firm Zuhlke to build iOS and Android-based contact tracing apps for the NHS. NHSX, the NHS’ tech development unit, has produced its own app – currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight – which ...
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Toshiba is expecting profits to triple for its financial year to the end of March. Profit for the FY 2020 is estimated at $1.2 billion. Revenues are forecast to be $32 billion. The company estimated the impact of the coronavirus as reducing revenues by $373 million and profits by $186 million.
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The US government is talking to Intel, Samsung and TSMC about building fabs in the US, reports the Wall Street Journal. TSMC’s fabs are in Hsinchu and Tainan in Taiwan and in Nanjing in China Samsung’s fabs are in Giheung, Hwaseong, Onyang and Pyeongtaek in Korea, in Xi’an and Suzhou in China and in Austin, ...
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Intel has received worker safety complaints about its fabs in Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon fabs, reports Bloomberg. In March and April, the Occupational Safety and Health division of Oregon received more than 40 virus-related complaints about Intel plants in Hillsboro and elsewhere. The complaints accuse Intel of not enforcing social-distancing rules, not providing masks ...
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Wireless communication in mmWave bands, which range from 20 GHz to 300 GHz, is expected to be a key enabling technology for 6G wireless systems, because the huge available bandwidth can accommodate ultra-high data-rate communications. Within that range of mmWave bands CEA-Leti’s research is investigating D-band, a new spectrum at 140 GHz that may play ...
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NXP has brought out a family of multiprotocol wireless MCUs which complement the company’s pin-compatible JN5189/88 (Thread/Zigbee and QN9090/30 (BLE) MCUs.. Lowering the power consumption is crucial to maximizing the performance from a single coin cell battery. NXP’s K32W061/41 MCU achieves this via multiple low power modes and low transmit/receive radio power capabilities. The K32W061 and the ...
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TSMC’s April revenues were down 15.4% sequentially to $3.21 billion which was 28.5% up on April 2019. The company’s cumulative, January-April, revenue is up 38.6% ay $13.4 billion. TSMC expects Q2 revenue of between $10.1 and $10.4 billion and 2020 full year revenue growth of 14-19%. TSMC expects the non-memory semiconductor market to be flat ...
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