Samsung took 74% of the Q3  5G phone market, says IHS Markit, shipping 3.2 million 5G phones out of total market shipments of 4.3 million. In Q2 Samsung has 83% pf the shipments. Korea has been a pioneer in the 5G market, with its wireless operators commencing service in April. This  has helped Samsung and LG, ...

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With the CORE-V Chassis project, the recently formed OpenHW Group aims to tape out a heterogeneous multi-core processor evaluation SoC, capable of running the Linux operating system during the 2nd half of 2020. The CORE-V Chassis will see a CV64A 64-bit core running alongside a CV32E 32-bit coprocessor core. Based on the NXP iMX platform, ...

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DENSO Toyota have founded a jv semiconductor company to pursue automotive ICs. The company is to start operations in April and will be called MIRISE. Toyota will have 49% of the jv and DENSO will have 51%. MIRISE will conduct research and advanced development of next-generation in-vehicle semiconductors. MIRISE is an acronym for Mobility Innovative ...

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TSMC’s November revenues rose 1.7% sequentially to $3.54 billion up 9.7% year-on-year. Revenues totaled  $31.7 billion for the first 11 months of this year, rising 2.7% from the same period in 2018. TSMC has estimated Q4 revenues at between $10.2 billion and $10.3 billion, up about 9% from the record high set in Q3. “We expect ...

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Ericsson has paid $1 billion to settle US Department of Justice corruption investigations.  “Through slush funds, bribes, gifts, and graft, Ericsson conducted telecom business with the guiding principle that ‘money talks,’” said US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. “Certain employees in some markets, some of whom were executives in those markets, acted in bad faith and knowingly ...

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TSMC is to put 5nm processing into commercial production next year, reports DigiTimes. There has been speculation since the summer that TSMC’s push on 5nm means that the 2020 iPhone processors will be made on a 5nm process. The 2018 iPhones were the first to use TSMC’s 7nm process. The company plans to ‘soon’ break ...

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Nexperia claims to have the fastest common mode filter (choke)/ ESD protection combination on the market. The new PCMFxUSB3BA/C features the industry’s widest differential passband of up to 10 GHz 3dB frequency and a very high surge robustness of up to 7.5 A 8/20 µs. It is designed to suppress common mode and single-ended noise ...

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Mouser has brought out an eBook  with Bourns, exploring new components, technologies, and strategies for the design and development of electric vehicles. In Electrification of the Vehicle, subject matter experts from Mouser and Bourns provide detailed explanations of concepts and products including shunt resistors, inductor designs for on-board chargers, and the use of inductors and current ...

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UltraSoc  is offering an open-source implementation of its RISC-V trace encoder via the OpenHW Group. The availability of a production-grade, standards-compliant processor trace solution is a key enabler for developers, and supports the OpenHW Group’s aim of creating an open, commercial grade ecosystem for development based on open-source processors. “We fully believe in industry standards ...

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