The notebook computer industry will be transformed in 2Q20, with Chromebooks showing the most remarkable growth., says TrendForce. Chromebook shipments in 2Q20 will reach up to 11.6 million units, a historical high in single-quarter shipment. Furthermore, 2Q20 marks the first time ever for Chromebooks to occupy 25% of total quarterly notebook shipment. TrendForce considers the explosive ...

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Smiths Interconnect, the manufacturer of IC Test Solutions for the semiconductor test industry, has announced enhancements to its Thermal Management Solutions product offering. Utilising state-of-the-art system simulation models allows the company to optimize each lid’s design for efficient heat dissipation through a variety of cooling mechanisms. Traditional solutions including finned and liquid cooled heatsinks have ...

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Element 14  and Infineon are harnessing technologies that make life easier, safer and greener with the “Sustain The World” design challenge. This challenge encourages the element 14 community to create a new design with a positive environmental impact that can be applied to a variety of sustainable ventures including recycling, CO2 monitoring, pollution monitoring, and more. ...

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Huawei and ST are collaborating on auto and smartphone IC development, according to the Nikkei. ”There is nothing we can say,” an ST spokesperson told EW when asked for a comment. The co-operation is said to be aimed at accelerating Huawei’s ADAS development. Huawei’s chip subsidiary Hi Silicon is far ahead of ST on mobile ...

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ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the four year-old leader of China’s efforts to get into DRAM, has signed a patent license agreement with Rambus, reports Digitimes. “The agreement with Rambus once again demonstrates our high attention to international intellectual property (IP) related rules and continued efforts to strengthen the company’s IP portfolio,” says Yiming Zhu, chairman ...

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Next month OmniVision is expected to sample a 64 megapixel (MP) image sensor with a 0.7 micron pixel size, enabling 64 MP resolution in a 1/2” optical format for the first time. This allows high end and high mainstream smartphone designers to create the thinnest possible phones with high resolution 64 MP cameras. Built on OmniVision’s ...

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The UK is going down a different technological route on contact tracing to the one which was agreed last weekend between a German-led consortium, a Swiss-led consortium and Apple-Google. The German and Swiss consortia had originally disagreed on whether the data collected by the app should be held on a central database or on mobile ...

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3PEAK,  an eight year-old Shanghai analogue vendor, is to IPO on the tech-focussed Shanghai STAR Market, reports Digitimes. 3PEAK’s investors include  Huaxin Venture Capital and Hubble Technology Investment. Hubble is wholly owned by Huawei. Huaxin is a Chinese semiconductor investment fund whose include TSMC, Toshiba, ARM and SMIC. Last July, Hubble bought 8% of 3PEAK ...

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Infineon has added new current ratings to its 1200 V TRENCHSTOP IGBT7 modules. This completes the Easy 1B and 2B portfolio, which is now offering power solutions for up to 11 kW in PIM and up to 22 kW in six-pack topologies with the latest chip technology. Customers have the choice: either to increase the ...

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