The global smart speaker market reached a new high in 2019 with sales of 146.9 million units, an increase of 70% on 2018, according to Strategy Analytics. Amazon remained the leading brand with a share of 26.2%, down from 33.7% 2018. Google retained second place with a 20.3% share, also down from 25.9% the previous ...
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Socionext has developed a Time-Sensitive Network (TSN) IP for FPGA and ASIC implementation. The IP, which provides true deterministic Ethernet for industrial applications, is compliant with the next-generation Ethernet TSN (communication standard IEEE 802.1 Subset) and its evaluation environment. The company has been providing leading-edge, high-speed network SoCs for more than 30 years, and the ...
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Moortec, the Plymouth developer of on-chip monitoring and analytics IP, is opening a new design centre in Bristol. It is Moortec’s third design office after Plymouth and Poland. “We’ve a very successful Design office in Poland and our main Head Office in Plymouth – our new additional Design office located in the heart of Bristol ...
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UltraSoc is collaborating with PDF Solutions on combined comprehensive data analytics with advanced machine learning (ML) techniques, with the goal of predicting and preventing chip failures in the field with unprecedented accuracy. The solution will combine in-life information from UltraSoC’s hardware-based behavioral monitors with PDF Solutions’ end-to-end machine learning and analytics platform to identify chips that ...
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SiPearl, which is designing the europrocessor, has received €6.2 million from the Horizon 2020 R&D programme. The company is now going to try and raise more money to get its processor on the market by 2022. The europrocessor is being created under the European Processor Initiative consortium of 27 members comprising: Atos, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ...
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The Sprint T-Mobile merger has been approved. T-Mobile says it could be completed by April 1st. This is good news for Softbank which owns 84% of Sprint. Sprint has debt of $40 billion – 3x more than its ebitda – and, if the merger had been disallowed by the courts, Softbank could have been obliged ...
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TSMC has has no plans to revise its Q1 sales guidance as a result of the coronavirus, reports Digitimes. This is despite a 12% expected Q1 fall in smartphone production and TSMC currently deriving 53% of its revenue from chips fro smartphones. Digitimes reports that none of TSMC’s major clients, including Huawei’s chip subsidiary HiSilicon, ...
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Spot, the robot dog developed by Boston Dynamics, has got his own employee number at Norwegian oil producer Aker BP ASA. Spot will patrol Aker BP’s oil and gas production vessel at the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea, testing its ability to run inspections, detect hydrocarbon leaks, gather data and generate reports which should ...
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The US FTC has issued special orders to Microsoft, Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple and Facebook to provide information and documents on the terms, scope, structure, and purpose of M&A between Jan. 1, 2010 and Dec. 31, 2019. ‘ The orders will help the FTC deepen its understanding of large technology firms’ acquisition activity, including how ...
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Arm has added the Arm Cortex-M55 processor and the Arm Ethos-U55 NPU for Cortex-M, designed to deliver a combined 480x leap in machine learning (ML) performance to MCUs. Cortex- M55 is Arm’s most AI-capable Cortex-M CPU, and the first to be based on Arm Helium technology, bringing 15x uplift in ML performance and 5x uplift ...
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