Broadcom has made an offer to the EU to get it to drop its anti-trust investigation, reports Reuters. In return for ending the investigation into its sales practices, Broadcom has said it is willing to drop ‘exclusivity deals’ whereby TV and modem customers who buy more than 50% of their requirement from Broadcom get rebates ...
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The row between a Swiss-led consortium and a German-led consortium about the right approach for a European contact tracing app has been resolved with Germany falling in with the Swiss model. The row was over where information generated by the app should be stored. Germany’s PEPP-PT system stored it centrally, Switzerland’s DPT-3 system stored it ...
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There have been 15 5G commercial launches this year, including Thailand, Hong Kong (2 operators) and Japan (4 operators), says Strategy Analytics China Mobile plans to have 300,000 5G base stations in use by the end of 2020, while China Telecom and China Unicom have brought forward the target for deploying 250,000 base stations in their ...
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Researchers reporting in the American Chemical Society’s Nano Letters have developed a hydrogel that can both cool down electronics, such as cell phone batteries, and convert their waste heat into electricity. Xuejiao Hu, Kang Liu, Jun Chen and colleagues wanted to design a smart thermogalvanic hydrogel that could convert waste heat into electricity, while also lowering the ...
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Global light vehicle sales are forecast to be down 22% to 70.3 million units this year, says IHS Markit.Though most factories in China are back to work, IHS forecasters caution that it will take time for plants to fully recover. Mainland China is expected to have a sales decline of more than 15.5% y-o-y, to 21 ...
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The Turing Pi cluster board is available for preorder from Turing Machines Inc. This Mini-ITX-sized motherboard can support up to seven Raspberry Pi Compute Modules, essentially creating a server rack. The Turing Pi board has support for the Kubernetes environment. It’s suitable for things like machine learning, cloud environments, application testing and serverless stacks. The ...
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The RF front end market will have 8% CAGR between 2018 and 2025, says Yole Developpenent. From $15 billion in 2018, the market should reach $25.8 billion by 2025. Samsung, Apple, Sony, LG, Google and ZTE all use complex RF modules from Broadcom, Skyworks, Qorvo, Qualcomm, and Murata. In the 17 selected smartphones, most of the components, ...
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The SEMI billings figure for sales of North American chip manufacturing equipment vendors fell to a 4-month low of $2.21 billion in March 2020. The billings figure is 6.8% lower from February’s $2.37 billion, but is 20.1% higher than the March 2019 billings level of $1.84 billion. “While March monthly billings of North America-based semiconductor ...
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Xilinx had calendar Q1 (FY Q2) sales of $833 million down 2% from the prior quarter and up 12% y-o-y. Operating income was $240 million and net income $217 million. For the full fiscal year to the end of March, Xilinx had $3.2 billion of revenues, which was up 3% y-o-y, for a net income ...
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Intel had Q1 revenues of $19.8 billion, up 23% y-o-y, with a margin of 60.6% for operating income of $7 billion and net income of $5.7 billion. PC was up 14% at $9.8 billion. Datacentre was up 43% at $7 billion. Mobileye was up 22% at $254 million. Memory was up 46% at $1.3 billion. ...
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