TSMC expects a 14% drop in Q1 revenue to $7.3/7.4 billion citing big inventories in smartphone ICs caused by dropping smartphone sales H2 smartphone launches could retrieve the situation but, for now “the inventory in the supply chain is quite a lot”, says TSMC chairman Mark Liu said at a post-earnings conference. The 14% drop expected ...
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Baidu’s Edgeboard (pictured), an edge acceleration computing device which is part of the Baidu Brain AI Hardware Platform initiative, is to use the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale MPSoC. “The flexible EdgeBoard we built based on Xilinx is designed to enable developers and engineers to quickly leverage Baidu-proven technology or deploy self-defined models, enabling faster deployment,” said ...
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element14 has donated 250 micro:bit devices to support coding in the classroom, providing teachers around the world with the tools they need to facilitate a range of inspiring education projects. ‘The Great micro:bit Education Giveaway’ was launched in August 2018 and invited STEM educators to submit a proposal for a project they would like ...
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The US government is to vote on a bill that would ban the supply of components to Huawei and ZTE. The move follows a US ban on supplying components and equipment to China’s aspirant DRAM maker Fujian Jin Hua. Two US Senators and two Congressnen from both main parties have introduced the bill which would ...
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ST’s STHVDAC-253C7 digital controller for tunable capacitors claims to shrink the size, BoM, and power consumption of antenna-tuning circuits for stabilizing smartphone RF performance. Using the STHVDAC-253C7 with ST’s STPTIC capacitors for impedance matching and frequency tuning is claimed to almost eliminate the effects of environmental variations, resulting in stronger signal reception, fewer dropped calls, ...
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Angstrem of Zelenograd – one of Russia’s biggest chip-makers – has effectively gone bust It has, reports Reuter’s, been taken over by a state-owned bank called VEB. VEB had lent Angstrem $945 million going back ten years which Angstrem did not pay back. The company was said to have been hit by US sanctions. Before ...
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Google has won a significant victory in the ‘right to be forgotten’ lawsuit it is engaged in with France. Google is appealing against a $115,000 fine imposed by the French in 2016 for failing to delete information sought in searches initiated from outside the EU. The EU’s Advocate-General has said that the EU right to ...
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The news that the iPhone sales are less than expected is off-set to an extent by the news that Apple’s non-iPhone revenues grew 19%. That includes revenues from Wearables, Mac computers and Services. Apple sees Services, rather than hardware, as the way ahead for the company. The company reckons it will double it’s Services revenue ...
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The Prime Minister’s Brexit Deal will provide the UK’s £130 billion digital sector with the certainty it needs to continue to thrive says Jeremy Wright Secretary of State fore Digital Culture Media and Sport. “We have secured the best deal possible to protect our businesses and make sure our personal data is processed safely and ...
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Q3 chip revenues grew 7.4% q-o-q, says IHS, reaching a record $129 billion. Samsung took 16.2% market share, followed by Intel at 14.5% and Hynix at 7.8%. Over the last eight months Samsung has gained 3.8% of share while Intel has lost 4.8%. In Q3, Intel grew 12.6%, Samsung grew 9.3%, and Hynix grew 6.5%. Q3 ...
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