Chinese semiconductor companies receive the most government support of any of their global peers proportionately to their revenue, states a report from the OECD. The OECD looked into public financial records of 21 international chipmakers which represent two-thirds of the global market. It found that Chinese companies receive higher government support relative to their revenues ...

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Micron says that it has reached the bottom of its financial cycle and an uptick will start next quarter. “Recent trends in our business give us optimism that our fiscal second quarter will mark the bottom for our financial performance,” says CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Two things give it confidence – licences to supply some parts ...

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Silicon Catalyst, the chip company incubator, has announced the admission of five additional companies. The newly admitted companies include: Beam Semiconductor MicroHorn™ 60/28 GHz Phased Array Transceiver Technology Offices in Rehovot, Israel and Toronto, Canada Digital Light High-speed Dynamic Light Field Sensors for the Age of AI Offices in Silicon Valley Dover Microsystems Delivering CoreGuard® technology, the ...

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Infineon is moving its  TRENCHSTOP IGBT7 into the medium power arena in the standard industry package EconoDUAL 3. In this technology, the 1200 V module provides a leading nominal current of 900 A enabling a 30 percent higher inverter output current for the same frame size compared with the former technology. While specific improvements of ...

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Fujifilm is to buy Hitachi’s medical diagnostic imaging business for $1.55 billion. The idea is to gain the scale to take on Philips, GE and Siemens. Last year Fujifilm had 5.5% of the $42 billion diagnostic imaging equipment business. Hitachi had 2.9%. Siemens leads the market with a 23.1% share, followed by GE on 21.8% ...

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Renesas says its power and timing products support the Xilinx Versal ACAP devices featured on the Xilinx VCK190 evaluation kit and the Renesas VERSALDEMO1Z power reference board. Built on 7nm technology, Versal addresses the needs of a wide range of applications in data center, automotive, 5G wireless, and wired and defense markets. The Xilinx VCK190 is ...

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Imec, TNO, and Cartamundi have developed a flexible capacitive identification tag that communicates with standard touch screens (C-touch). C-touch tags can be integrated in a wide range of paper and plastic based objects such as tickets, certified documents, payment cards, realizing smart products. The connection to the internet is established by placing the tagged object ...

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Intel has bought Habana Labs, the Israel programmable deep learning accelerator specialist,  for approximately $2 billion. “Habana turbo-charges our AI offerings for the data center with a high-performance training processor family and a standards-based programming environment to address evolving AI workloads,” says Intel’s Navin Shevoy, “we know that customers are looking for ease of programmability with ...

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TowerJazz and Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology – pictured), have developed an analogue approach to designing AI cores which, they claim, is the only way to get the processing power at the appropriate power levels to deliver AI at the edge. The TowerJazz/Technion approach uses  memristor devices with analogue memory storage using TowerJazz’s Y-Flash ...

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