Samsung has started building a $220 million R&D centre in Vietnam which will employ between 2,200 and 3,000 people. Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022. Last year Samsung closed its Chinese phone factory at Huizhou which it had operated for 17 yeas and which had employed about 6,000 workers. In ...
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Red Pitaya, the seven year-old Slovenian specialist in cards to reconfigure instrumentation, has launched STEMlab 250-125 for industrial, research, test & measurement and data acquisition applications. STEMlab 250-12 is a two-channel 250 Msps 12-bit signal acquisition and two-channel 250 Msps 14-bit signal generator module with Zynq 7020 Dual-Core ARM cortex-A9 CPU and FPGA, 1GB DDR ...
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Analogix says its SlimPort ANX7580 DisplayPort to MIPI-DSI display controller has been implemented in multiple devices, the most recent being the LG V60 ThinQ and the Dual Screen, as well as in various handheld PC gaming devices With a 4-lane DisplayPort 1.4 input and 4 MIPI lanes for a single panel, the ANX7580 connects to graphics ...
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ST is expanding its STM32MP1 microprocessor (MPU) offering with the addition of new authorized partners, new software functionalities, and a significant performance bump by increasing the clock speed to 800MHz, maintaining software and pin-to-pin compatibility with the 650MHz devices. The new STM32MP1 MPUs, now running dual Arm Cortex-A7 application processor cores at 800MHz and the Cortex-M4 ...
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The Pope is issuing guidelines on the use of AI. IBM and Microsoft helped in drafting the Pope’s pronouncement entitled: “Rome Call for AI Ethics”. The Pope’s message is that AI should: be transparent respect privacy consider the needs of all human beings work without bias & work reliably The pope warned that algor-ethics – ...
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Kioxia, the renamed memory division of Toshiba, plans to raise $31.8 billion in an IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October, reports the Nikkei. The IPO would deliver a big profit to the consortium led by Bain and Hynix which bought Toshiba Memory for $18 billion in May 2018. Nine underwriters have been selected ...
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Globalfoundries is offering eMRAM on 22nm FD-SOI. The company is working with several clients with multiple production tape-outs scheduled in 2020. The technology shows the scalability of eMRAM as a cost-effective option at advanced process nodes for IoT, general-purpose MCU, automotive, edge-AI and other low-power applications. Designed as a replacement for high-volume embedded NOR flash (eFlash), ...
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ADI and Marvell are co-devloping chips for 5G base stations. The companies will offer integrated 5G digital front-end (DFE) ASICs with RF transceivers and will collaborate to develop next generation Radio Unit (RU) solutions including baseband and RF technology. “Marvell’s leadership in baseband, digital ASIC and transport processors combined with ADI’s RF transceiver technology creates an ...
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Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including ICs and optoelectronics, sensors, and discrete (O-S-D) devices are forecast to rise 7% in 2020 and surpass one trillion units for the second time in history, says IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry. The 7% increase to 1,036.3 billion total semiconductor shipments expected ...
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Sondrel, the IC design consultancy, has warned about the Inland Revenue’s change to payroll tax which comes into effect on April 6th. Called IR35, the tax change makes it the responsibility of hirers of staff to assess the employment status of off-payroll workers such as freelancers and people contracted via their own small companies. The complexities ...
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