CML Microcircuits of Maldon, Essex has introduced a user-programmable scrambler IC to prevent interference  in multi-function audio systems, as well as handheld wireless/cellular equipment. The chip enables greater robustness against security breaches with a frequency inversion audio scrambler supporting full duplex operation Maintaining elevated levels of audio quality, it can rapidly switch between clear and ...

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The China government’s goal of sourcing 40% of its chips domestically by 2020 and 70% by 2025, is not going to be met, reports the Nikkei. TrendForce estimates that domestically designed ICs only accounted for 15% of the China market last year. China’s design industry has been growing at 20% a year since 2014, but ...

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Q1 smartphone display shipments fell 20% sequentially and will drop again in Q2 and Q3, says IHS Markit. Displays represent the most expensive component within smartphones. As a result, displays are the first sector to experience order reductions when smartphone brands and manufacturers undergo a softening in demand. Q1 shipments of 409 million units were ...

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Unex’s SOM-301 V2X module has been integrated  into ST’s Telemaco3P Modular Telematics Platform (TC3P-MTP). The  SOM-301 is a self-contained System-on-Module that integrates all V2X essential hardware and software components and features Unex’s V2Xcast technology. SOM-301 devices integrate ST’s Teseo III automotive multi-constellation GNSS chip and Autotalks’  CRATON2/PLUTON2 – a V2X chipset, capable of both DSRC and ...

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UltraSoC has raised £5 million in an equity funding round in which eCAPITAL and Seraphim Capital joined previous investors Indaco Venture Partners, Octopus Ventures, Oxford Capital, Techgate, and business angel Guillaume d’Eyssautier. The funding allows UltraSoC to recruit hardware and software engineers at its headquarters in Cambridge and design centre in Bristol. Asked by Electronics Weekly if there would be other funding rounds, UltraSoc ...

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Chinese organisations involved in supercomputing have been added to the US Entity List of bodies barred from buying US technology. They include: Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology. They all have alias names which have also been put on the Entity List. Four ...

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Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered another sequential increase in May. North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.06 billion in billings worldwide in May 2019, says SEMI. The billings figure is 7.4% higher than the April 2019 level of US$1.92 billion, but is 23.6% lower than the May 2018 billings ...

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