Toshiba Memory is to buy the SSD unit of Lite-On of Taiwan for $165 million. Lite-On is a major customer of Toshiba for NAND. Although Toshiba has a 17.6% share of the NAND market, its share of the SSD market is 9.4%. Lite-On had 3.6% of the SSD market in Q2. Samsung led in Q2 ...

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The 25% tariff currently being levied on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods will be hiked to 30% as of Oct. 1 and the  planned 10% tariff on the remaining $300 billion in goods will be hiked to 15%. China has responded with additional tariffs of 5% or 10% on $75 billion worth of American products. China has ...

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Pi-oT has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a Raspberry Pi add-on for commercial and industrial IoT automation. The unit is a full mountable chassis with fan and DIN-rail that extends the Pi’s GPIO with 26-pin terminal connectors and provides 5x relays, 8x ADCs, and power outputs.   The Kickstarter campaign has passed its low initial ...

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Brian McEvoy at Hackaday tells this gruseome tale of implanting a Raspberry Pi in a leg – two legs actually. ”Earlier this month,” writes McEvoy, “ a group of biohackers installed two Rasberry Pis in their legs. While that sounds like the bleeding edge, those computers were already v2 of a project called PegLeg. I ...

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sureCore, the Sheffield low power SRAM IP specialist,  has opened a new Low Power Design Service that offers its concept-to-tape-out low power mixed-signal design expertise to ASIC developers. sureCore’s Design Service targets the pervasive system-centric low-power design challenge through a comprehensive suite of low-power mixed signal services, including design and layout capabilities, technology porting, as ...

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Q2 revenues of the top five IC design companies all shrank y-o-y, is says TrendForce. This was due to the US-China trade war, mounting inventory levels along the supply chain and less-than-satisfactory global demand for consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, LCDs, TVs, servers etc. NVIDIA registered the largest decline among the five: 20.1%. This is ...

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Toshiba claims to have the fastest-class PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs for enterprise applications with a sequential read performance of over 6.4GB/s. The CM6 Series SSDs support dual-port PCIe Gen4 x4 lanes and are NVMe 1.4 compliant. The family of enterprise NVMe SSDs will be available in a 2.5-inch form factor with capacity points from 800GB to ...

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Eben Upton has been telling IEEE Spectrum about the move to Raspberry Pi 4 and how the format is evolving. ”The last three Pis have all been made using the same  process,” says Upton (pictured), “so modifications have been limited, mostly putting in a larger ARM. If you look at the floor plan of the ...

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Anthony Lewandowski the former Waymo engineer who downloaded thousands of files of Waymo driverless car information before being employed in Uber’s driverless car project, has been charged with 33 criminal offences. A Waymo vs Uber civil lawsuit over the misappropriated files resulted last year in Uber giving Waymo $245  million of Uber stock to settle ...

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