2017年9月30日 星期六

EEVblog #1028 – What’s All This PC/104 Stuff Anyhow?

Forget Arduino & Raspberry Pi being the embedded platform computing standards, PC/104 has reigned supreme for over 25 years and is still THE industrial embedded computing standard.
Dave boots up a 17 year old 80386SX PC-104 board with Disk On Chip flash drive. Well, after a lot of frustration anyway.
And does anyone remember ThunderByte anti-virus?

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2017年9月29日 星期五

Tessera Files Infringement Suits Against Samsung

Technology licensor sues electronics giant in several venues claiming breach of 24 patents in semiconductor packaging end imaging analysis.

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Semiconductor Industry Backs Trump's Tax Reform Plan

Semiconductor Industry Association President John Neuffer comes out in support of framework for reducing corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent.

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Die Handling Critical in Flex Electronics

Wearables require flexible hybrid electronics with die thinned to less than 30mum, and handling these ultrathin die is turning out to be a critical part of the manufacturing process.

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TSMC to build 3nm fab in Taiwan

TSMC says its 3nm fab will be located in the Tainan Science Park in Taiwan. There had been speculation that the company might locate it outside Taiwan – perhaps in the USA. TSMC says it  ‘recognises and is grateful for the government’s clear commitments to resolve any issues, including land, water, electricity and environmental protectioN.’ ...

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Nordic nRF52840 bridges Thread and Bluetooth 5 networks

Nordic Semiconductor's nRF52840 chip becomes officially Thread 1.1 Certified, for bridging between networks.

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Rohde & Schwarz offers multi-antenna GNSS sat nav tests

Rohde & Schwarz is addressing the simulation of GNSS satellite location signals with a multiple input tester that can operator simultaneously in multiple frequency bands for multiple antennas. GNSS receivers are able to process signals from diverse navigation systems such as GPS, Glonass, Galileo or BeiDou in several frequency bands in order to improve positioning accuracy. ...

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Intel and Ericsson in Nordic project to roll-out first 5G services in Europe

Nordic-Baltic countries Sweden, Finland and Estonia are leading the roll-out of 5G mobile services in Europe and local operator Telia claims to have deployed the first public 5G live network use cases in Europe. This is a collaboration between the Swedish mobile operator and technology suppliers Ericsson and Intel. One of the use cases demonstrated ...

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Audi’s electric racing car for Formula E

Audi has revealed its 2017/2018 season all-electric racing car, the e-tron FE04, with an Audi motor and gearbox, developed with Schaeffler. “After nearly 40 years of being active in motorsport, Audi now becomes the first German automobile manufacturer to compete in Formula E in order to test and advance the development of new technologies for production,” said ...

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TSMC announces plan to build 3nm fab in Taiwan

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) today announced that following careful evaluation, the company's planned advanced 3nm fab will be located in the Tainan Science Park in southern Taiwan to fully leverage the company's existing cluster advantage and the benefit of a comprehensive supply chain.

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eevBLAB #37 – Youtube Copyright Trolls

Dave got hit with seven Copyright Content ID claims for background music used in his video, from a company called Adrev a.k.a “Adrev for Rights Holders”

UPDATE:
2ND UPDATE: (From SmartSound)

Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We actually do not use AdRev, or any other company, for Content ID, but we do work with them to release incorrect copyright claims. Since all of our music is royalty-free, flagging our own music would be counter-productive for us. These claims do come up for some music in our library that was originally licensed from the original composer on a non-exclusive basis. This music is indeed royalty-free when purchased from us, but the composer may also be selling the music through other methods that are not royalty-free, and YouTube cannot tell the difference, so it flags the video. These claims are quickly released using the methods listed on our website here: http://ift.tt/2fD9q6k

However, the music tracks that you reference in the video, “Clear Vision” and “Wild Chase”, are actually owned exclusively by SmartSound and should not be in Content ID at all. In fact, these are 2 of the 5 free tracks that are included with our Sonicfire Pro software that anyone can download for free. It seems that someone has taken these tracks and uploaded them to Content ID and claimed them as their own and is now trying to collect revenue. We take this very seriously and are already working to remove the fraudulent claims for these tracks. SmartSound music is 100% licensed to be used on monetized YouTube videos, and even though Content ID will flag first and ask questions later, we have found that AdRev and other similar companies are usually quick to remove the claims when they are incorrect. Disputing the claim through YouTube never seems to get very far, but using the advice from the link above and notifying AdRev directly through the link in our FAQ should resolve the issue in a timely manner.

Again, thank you for bringing this to light. This is a case of someone fraudulently claiming our music as their own, and we will get to the bottom of it immediately. If you have any questions please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
SmartSound Software, a label of Eins Medien GmbH
www.smartsound.com
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P.S. I have also heard from the head of SmartSound. All claims have been released now but I received another 3 new claims overnight. They should get sorted too.



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EEVblog #1027 – Implantable NeuroStimulator Teardown

What’s inside an implantable Medtronics Itrel 3 Neurostimulator designed for Neuropathic pain reduction.
Dave tears into the ultrasonically welded titanium case.

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EEVblog #1026 – Mystery Dumpster Diving PC

What’s inside this mystery dumpster dive PC?
Will it work?
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eevBLAB #36 – Demonetised!

Dave finally got hit by the dreaded Adpocalypse demonetisation on his Minute Physics / Bill Nye video.
Also a look at the EEVblog advertising revenue and if its has been hit by the Adpocalypse advertising revenue drop in general. Views are compared with revenue to show any drop in ad revenue over time.



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HTC likely to launch HTC U11 Plus in 4Q17

HTC is expected to launch a new flagship smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2017 as it has vowed to continue to strive in the global smartphone market despite Google taking over about 2,000 of its engineers.

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Taiwan unveils 4-year science, technology development plan

Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has unveiled the 2017-2020 National Science and Technology Development Plan to boost digital economy development and use of smart technologies.

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Hinge maker SZS to boost production capacity by over 40% in 2018

Notebook hinge maker Shin Zu Shing (SZS) has installed two new continuous MIM (metal injection molding) furnaces at its newly completed plant in Shulin, northern Taiwan, which will boost the company's capacity by over 40% beginning in 2018, according to industry sources.

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More supply chain makers vying for growing smart speaker market

More supply chains for AI-based voice assistant devices and smart speakers have begun to emerge as nearly all heavyweight tech companies including Google, Apple, Samsung Electronics, Amazon, Microsoft and China-based Alibaba, Xiaomi Technology and Tencent all have jumped on the bandwagon, according to industry sources.



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China PV module makers dominate India market

China-based PV module makers together occupy about 80% of the India market, with Trina Solar having the biggest share at 16.6%, followed by JA Solar (9.2%) and CSI (8.7%), according to industry sources.

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Where is Mong-song Liang taking SMIC: down the Samsung or TSMC path?

SMIC has declined to confirm whether Mong-song Liang is working for it although industry players across the Taiwan Strait have claimed thta the former TSMC R&D guru is working in China as a consultant of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology. Whatever title he may assume, the more curious part of this development is where Liang is taking SMIC.

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e-peas raises $4.2m

e-peas, the Belgian energy-harvesting IC start-up, has raised a new $4.2 million funding round. The round was led by Partech Ventures and comprises Airbus Ventures, JCDecaux Holding, Semtech, SRIW and Vives. Having initially gained both local government grants and private seed investment funding back in 2014, e-peas brought its AEM10940  energy harvesting chip to market. Through this ...

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ADI metering IC has mSure diagnostics

ADI has brought out a metering IC that includes mSure diagnostics technology enabling direct and noninvasive monitoring of electric meter accuracy and faults in real-time. mSure-enabled meters, combined with a cloud analytics service, provide utility companies with real-time data and actionable insights to protect revenue from tampering, manage field resources more effectively, cut equipment cost, ...

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Jinko to supply 4.2MWp of PV modules for Foxconn rooftop systems

China-based Jinko Solar Holdings has disclosed it has secured a contract to supply 4.2MWp of PV modules for Taiwan-based EMS provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai) to set up rooftop PV systems at its factories in Shenzhen.

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Asustek ramping up share in branded motherboard market

Asustek Computer has seen its share in the global branded motherboard market surge to as high as 45% recently, powered by brisk sales of its X299- and Z270-series high-end products, according to industry sources.



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San'an sells Epistar shares

China-based LED wafer and chip maker San'an Optoelectronics has disposed of 33.306 million shares of Taiwan-based fellow maker Epistar, equivalent to a 3.05% stake, according to the company.

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China makers setting up solar poly-Si wafer plants

China-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy, CETC Shanxi New Energy Technology and Tongwei Group are constructing solar poly-Si wafer plants with annual production capacities of 3GWp, 3GWp and 4GWp respectively in the country, according to media reports.

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Partnerships that matter: Q&A with HMD Global CMO Pekka Rantala

HMD Global, which began to market Nokia-branded feature phones and smartphones through a license agreement with Nokia at the end of 2016, has further enriched its product portfolio with the launch of its latest smartphone, Nokia 8.

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Ibase Gaming seeking to become system integrator

Taiwan gaming machine maker Ibase Gaming, an affiliate of industrial PC maker Ibase Technology, will take a road not taken by peer makers in its future business development, with the listing expected to grant the company more resources and momentum to materialize its corporate vision, the firm's chairman Liao Liang-pin has pledged.

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Lextar releases IR LED dual-recognition biometric sensor module

Lextar Electronics has released PR88M32, an infrared (IR) LED biometric sensor module that it says can recognize human faces and iris. With a thickness of 1.4mm, the sensor module is expected to be adopted for notebooks and residential access control systems in first-half 2018. Lextar is also seeking to have it adopted by smartphone vendors.

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Taiwan market: Smartphone vendors also eyeing entry-level, mid-tier segments

A number of smartphone vendors are gearing up efforts to promote entry-level and mid-tier models in the Taiwan market despite mounting competition brought upon by the availability of some high-end products, according to market sources.



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Toshiba seals JPY2 trillion deal with Bain group

Toshiba announced on September 28 the company had signed a deal to sell its memory-chip business - Toshiba Memory - to a group led by Bain Capital for about JPY2 trillion (US$18 billion).

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Diode maker Eris looks to revenue and profit growth in 2018

Taiwan-based Eris Technology, which specializes in the manufacture of rectifier diodes, expects to enjoy another year of revenue and profit growth in 2018, driven by robust orders for automotive electronics, according to company chairman Jonathan Chang.

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Power transistor growth returns after volatile period, says IC Insights

Since the 2009 semiconductor downturn and strong 2010 recovery year, power transistor sales have been rocked by market volatility, falling in three of the last five years because of inventory corrections and drawdowns by systems makers worried about ongoing economic weakness and price erosion in some product categories. After recovering from a 7% drop in 2015, power transistor sales grew 5% in 2016 to US$12.9 billion and are forecast to set a new record high this year with worldwide revenues rising 6% to US$13.6 billion, according to IC Insights.

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SMIC, Sanechips announce NB-IoT solution

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Sanechips Technology (formerly ZTE Microelectronics Technology) have announced the launch of RoseFinch7100, which the companies claim is China's first homegrown commercial NB-IoT (narrowband Internet of Things) chip.

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2017年9月28日 星期四

Toshiba introduces wide leadform package for SO6L optocouplers

Toshiba is in mass production of  optocouplers in a new wide leadform package type SO6L(LF4). The wide leadform option is available for three high-speed IC photocouplers and five IGBT/MOSFET driver photocouplers. The new photocouplers can be directly mounted on PCB pads intended for SDIP6(F type) products. The SO6L(LF4)’s 2.3mm (max.) low profile package offers a ...

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Woodie Flowers: Gracious Professionalism

In the final part of EE Times' interview with MIT Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers, we get to the core of what it takes to make a difference in your career and in society.

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Averna, PTC Bring Test & IoT to Manufacturing

The test & measurement company is joining forces with a manufacturing software to integrate IoT devices and analyze sensor data.

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Toshiba Inks Acquisition Deal with Bain-led Group

Deal to sell chip unit for about $18 billion structured to proceed before legal challenges brought by Western Digital are resolved.

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5G Sprint Led by Marathon Man

Qualcomm engineer and 3GPP chair Wanshi Chen is on the hook to deliver by the end of the year a draft of requirements for a 5G cellular transceiver.

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Imagination to press ahead with MIPS sale to US group Tallwood

Imagination is to press ahead with the sale of MIPS to Silicon Valley investment group Tallwood Venture Capital after another potential bidder pulled out of the process.

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Containers Won't Kill the Server OS

Despite declarations it is dying or dead, the OS cockroach will continue to evolve, driven by a rising tide of adoption for containers.

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Three professional tool kits from RS

RS Components has launched tool kits for maintenance engineers, technicians and electricians, including automotive and VDE-approved kits. The application-specific toolkits are designed to be a starting point for engineers or technicians with all the basic tools for a particular industry application, or even as a replacement tool kit for experienced users. The RS Pro kit ...

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Brits don’t want smart homes to snoop

76% of Britons are ‘fearful’ of the smart homes concept, despite the likely cost savings, with unapproved data collection cited as the greatest worry, according to price comparison website MoneySuperMarket, which has surveyed 2,000 people. Other concerns include the technology being hacked by criminals (51%), being made unusable by a virus (43%) and recording you ...

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XJTAG adds speed to test and debug environment

XJTAG has updated its XJDeveloper test and programming IDE with test automation features. The XJDeveloper development and debug environment is used to set up and run JTAG tests, detecting faults on high-density boards without requiring test fixtures or functional testing. This release of the IDE, v3.6, incorporates a new documentation feature in XJEase files so ...

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Hydrogen fuel cell unveiled in Orkney

A hydrogen fuel cell as been unveiled in Orkney, part of the Surf ‘n’ Turf hydrogen community energy project, led by charity Community Energy Scotland, working with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney Islands Council, Eday Renewable Energy, and ITM Power. Surf ’n’ Turf is a pilot project, looking to circumvent local grid constraints ...

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ByteSnap gets NXP approval for design services

ByteSnap Design has become an approved engineering consultant for NXP Semiconductors. The embedded systems design consultant has experience of design projects based on NXP chips including a smart home security system, a bus ticketing system and Apple Homekit temperature control system. Gérard Maniez, director, third-party technical support network at NXP, writes: “ByteSnap Design with their extensive ...

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Intel runs authentication on FPGA-based processors

Intel plans to add authentication and data protection security capabilities to its FPGA-based development boards for IoT designs. Intel’s DE10-Nano development board is now supported by an SDK from SecureRF with tech support for authenticating remote devices with a Cyclone V FPGA. As an alternative to ECC authentication techniques security algorithms offered by SecureRF, such ...

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Toshiba signs $18bn deal to sell chip business to Bain/Hynix group

Toshiba has signed an $18bn deal to sell its NAND chip division to a consortium led by private equity group Bain Capital that includes SK Hynix, Apple and Dell.

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Reference design for high resolution audio player with Bluetooth

Rohm has anounced a high definition audio system reference design based around its BM94803AEKU media decoder processor, aimed at Hi-fi audio equipment, Bluetooth speakers, separate audio components and USB audio DACs. Included in the SoC is a 108MHz ARM946ES and a dedicated DSP for CD media decoding and a co-packaged 16Mbit SDRAM – reducing mounting ...

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Drones read vital signs from afar

Drones can be used to detect human vital signs from a distance, according to the University of South Australia. The technique uses a standard camera and an image processing algorithm created by PhD students, Ali Al-Naji, pictured below, and Asanka Perera, and remotely measures heart and breathing rates on several people simultaneously, even if they ...

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World’s largest Li-ion battery

The world’s largest lithium ion battery is being installed in Australia at the Hornsdale Wind Farm under an agreement between US firm Tesla, French renewable energy company Neoen (which owns the farm), and the South Australian Government. “At 100MW and 129MWh, the Hornsdale Power Reserve will become not only the largest renewable generator in the state ...

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Innolux top TV panel vendor in August, says firm

Innolux outperformed LG Display to become the world's top vendor of LCD TV applications in August, during which the Taiwan-based maker's TV panel shipments reached 3.9 million units, up 28% from the previous month, according to Sigmaintell Consulting.

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Shanghai lab rolls out first set of NB-IoT industrial application standards

The Shanghai Joint IoT Lab has worked out the first version of standards governing the NB-IoT industrial applications, which has won endorsements from 13 IoT industry associations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Taiwan and is expected to accelerate large-scale commercialization of IoT applications, according to industry sources.



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Backend firm Lingsen enjoys strong orders for MEMS microphones

Taiwan-based backend service company Lingsen Precision Industries has enjoyed brisk orders for MEMS microphones for use in smart speakers and voice assistants, according to industry sources.

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Seeking to become major IoT brand: Q&A with Aaeon chairman YS Chuang

As one of Taiwan's major makers of industrial PCs, Aaeon Technology was back to the capital market in late August 2017, when it was relisted on the local bourse six years after it was acquired by Asustek Computer and delisted in 2011. Over the years, the entire IPC industry has flourished remarkably, driven by the IoT (Internet of Things) and Industry 4.0 trends, and the company has also experienced significant growths and upgrades.

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Sumitomo and Gogoro announce partnership for electric scooter sharing service in Japan

Sumitomo and Taiwan-based electric scooter vendor Gogoro have announced a joint partnership to introduce the latter's Smartscooter for use in a sharing service that will launch in Japan this year.

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IQD VCTCXO meets LTE-A, WCDMA, small cell synchronisation challenges

IQD’s  low jitter, tight stability IQXT-316 series VCTCXO uses proprietary ASIC technology to meet the tight short and medium term stability requirements (±50ppb to ±250ppb depending on the operating temperature range) required for packet network synchronisation for small cells. This, combined with slope performance as low as ±20ppb/degrees and low power consumption makes the IQXT-316 ...

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NAND supply/demand to balance next year

NAND supply will come into balance with demand next year, says DRAMeXchange. NAND demand has exceeded supply in all six quarters since Q3 2016. The NAND bit supply growth rate is currently projected at 42.9%, while the bit demand growth rate is projected at 37.7%. “The progress bottleneck in the transition from the 2D-NAND to ...

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Qualcomm offers biometric patch reference designs

Qualcomm develops reference designs for biometric patches that will enable care models, from perioperative care to assessing the impact of therapeutic interventions.

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2017年9月27日 星期三

IBM Research Uses Deep Learning to Train Raspberry Pi Devices

Computations requiring high performance computing power may soon be done in the palm of your hand thanks IBM researchers in Dublin, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data

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SiLabs produces up to 12 ‘any-frequency’ clocks from a single input

Silicon Labs has produced a ‘clock tree on a chip’ with up to 12 outputs. Called Si5332, 230fs(rms) general jitter performance is claimed, with specific examples of: 245fs for clocking system PLLs, 196fs for SerDes PLLs, 220fs for PCIe Gen4 (16Gtransfer/s)and 366fs for FPGAs. The chip comes in three versions, with six, eight or 12 ...

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How to Transform a Technology University

William Grogan spearheaded a campaign to toss a university's curriculum out the door. Doing so changed engineering education as many other universities now pursue undergraduate project work and innovation.

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Samsung, Intel and Hynix invest in firm for nanoscale chip processes

Samsung, Hitachi and SK Hynix join Intel in investing in a Nevada-based start-up company developing production systems for advanced node semiconductor manufacturing. Reno Sub-Systems develops semiconductor manufacturing systems for nanoscale IC processes. These include RF matching networks, RF power generators and gas delivery systems. The company has closed its Series C funding which was led by ...

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Philips and IQE to make lasers a mass-market product by 2022

Philips Photonics and UK-based IQE are aiming to manufacture semiconductor lasers in mass production at cost levels equivalent to the manufacture of LEDs. Philips has completed a €23m project to create a production line for vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) for volume photonics applications such as data communications and lighting. The three year project, ...

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Comment: Meeting the challenges of evolving auto electronics

Tomorrow's electronic engineers can jump into the auto industry fast lane through real-world project-based learning, writes Dr Coorous Mohtadi of MathWorks

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GET to raise capital

Solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) has disclosed it has decided to issue new shares in two phases to raise capital via private placement.

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AI and smart speaker firms keen for Computex 2018, says TCA

Taipei Computer Association (TCA) has started the online registration process for exhibiting at Computex 2018 and a few hundred Taiwan firms, including those from emerging industries such as the artificial intelligence (AI) and smart speaker sectors, have already registered, according to the organization.



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DRAM transition to EUV for sub-10nm node remains a financial challenge

Major DRAM chipmakers will continue to use multiple patterning exposure techniques for their 1x/1y nodes, but a question mark is still hanging over the prospect of their switch to extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology for the manufacture of sub-10nm chips, according to industry sources.

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Commentary: Micro LED panels can be competitive in smart displays

As the displays market is approaching saturation, micro LED panels can compete with LCD and OLED if they are used as smart displays through being embedded with sensors.

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Aurora eyeing Taiwan educational 3D printing market

Aurora, a distributor of office automation machines and office furniture in Taiwan and China, will start offering 3D printing promotional services at its outlets around Taiwan for students in fourth-quarter 2017.

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Moore's Law has come to its end, says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has said that with the emergence of GPU computing following the decline of the CPU era, Moore's Law has come to an end, stressing that his company's GPU-centered ecosystem has won support from China's top-five AI (artificial intelligence) players.

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Baidu releases Apollo 1.5

China-based search engine Baidu has upgraded Apollo, its open-source autonomous driving platform, from the initial version 1.0 released on early July 2017 to version 1.5 by adding five core capability modules.

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AMD to launch 12nm Ryzen in February 2018, says mobo makers

AMD has informed its partners that it plans to launch in February 2018 an upgrade version of its Ryzen series processors built using a 12nm low-power (12LP) process at Globalfoundries, according to sources at motherboard makers.



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Digitimes Research: FPGAs getting a foothold in deep learning inference chip market

While Nvidia is currently a leading player in the deep learning inference chip market, powered by its GPGPU (general-purpose computing on graphics processing unit) processors, other vendors are offering FPGA-based solutions to contest for market shares.

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Winbond to break ground on new 12-inch fab in mid-2018

Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics, a manufacturer of specialty DRAM and NOR flash memory, expects to break ground on a new 12-inch wafer plant at the Kaohsiung Science Park (KSP), southern Taiwan around the end of second-quarter 2018 or the middle of the year. The new plant will go into operation by 2020, according to the company.

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Chunghwa Telecom signs cooperation pact with Cisco

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cisco Systems calling for cooperation in the fields of new network technology, information security, data center, IoT and smart city applications.

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GIS expects shipment momentum to continue into 4Q17

Touch panel solution provider General Interface Solution (GIS) expects its shipment momentum to continue into November, which will enable the company to post month-over-month revenue growth through the second half of 2017, according to company chairman Chou Hsien-ying.

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MediaTek likely to meet high end of 3Q17 guidance

MediaTek is expected to meet the high-end of its sales guidance for the third quarter of 2017, driven by better-than-expected sales of its recently introduced Helio P23 and P30 chips, according to market sources.



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Chongqing HKC breaks ground for 2nd 8.6G line

China-based Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its second 8.6G TFT-LCD factory located in Chuzhou, eastern China. The new CNY24 billion (US$3.62 billion) 8.6G line will be ready for commercial production in the first quarter of 2019.

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Dyson to make electric cars

Sir James Dyson is to build an electric car. Dyson says he is putting £2 billion into developing the car which should be on the road in 2020. “Battery technology is very important to Dyson, electric motors are very important to Dyson, environmental control is very important to us,” says Dyson, “I have been developing ...

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Infineon introduces 6th gen CoolSiC

Infineon has brought out the CoolSiC Schottky diode 650 V G6 to complement the 600 V and 650 V CoolMOS 7 families. They are aiming at current and future applications in Server and PC power, Telecom equipment power, and PV inverters. The CoolSiC Schottky diode 650 V G6 has a new layout, new cell structure, and ...

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Saelig’s pen-shaped scope

Saelig has brought out a pen-shaped battery-powered wireless oscilloscope that streams captured signals to almost any WiFi-connected screen. The IkaScope WS200 offers a 30MHz bandwidth with its 200MSa/s sampling rate and the maximum input is +/-40Vpp. It provides galvanically-isolated measurements even when a USB connection is charging the internal battery. It will work on desktop ...

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TI launches MCUs with ultrasonic sensing analogue front end

Texas Instruments has brought out MCUs with an integrated ultrasonic sensing analogue front end that enables smart water meters to deliver higher accuracy and lower power consumption. In addition, TI has introduced two new reference designs that make it easier to design modules for adding automated meter reading (AMR) capabilities to existing mechanical water meters. ...

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2017年9月26日 星期二

What's The Best Way to Verify Your SSD Controller?

To handle the complexity of hardware and software for advanced SoCs, design teams are employing hardware emulation for full chip functional verification of the controller SoC design as well as for the SoC's firmware.

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IPhone 8 Chips Come into View

Apple's iPhone 8 Plus sports an A11 processor 30% smaller than in the A10 in the iPhone 7, according to a TechInsights teardown of it and other chips.

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Western Digital Still Hopes to Block Toshiba Chip Sale

Western Digital still believes it can block the sale of Toshiba's chip unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital through arbitration tribunals at the International Chamber of Commerce.

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Intel Refreshes Desktop CPUs

Intel rolled out six new desktop processors, boosting CPU frequency at the high end and adding more x86 cores elsewhere.

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Cypress, Murata and Future join in $99 IoT dev board

Future Electronics is selling an IoT development kit which costs $99. Developed with suppliers Cypress Semiconductor and Murata, the Nebula board is an IoT cloud ready board for prototype development. Wireless connectivity comes from the Murata 1DX module, which integrates the Cypress CYW4343W Wi-Fi and BT/BLE combo SoC. This includes a 2.4 GHz WLAN IEEE ...

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Xilinx invests in high-end programmable chip start-up

Xilinx has invested in a California-based start-up developing high performance programmable chip platforms. The five year old firm is called Efinix and is also being backed by Hong Kong X Technology Fund (HKX), and Samsung Electronics’ investment arm in a $9.5m funding round. Efinix has developed a programmable chip-level platform, it calls Quantum, which it says ...

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Gear tooth detector for automotive speed sensing

Allegro MicroSystems announces a new three-wire differential speed sensor integrated circuit, that includes its own bias magnet for zero-speed operation. Intended for gear tooth sensing in automotive transmission systems, it can also be used in recreational vehicles, industrial equipment, white goods, and exercise equipment. ATS668 has integrated EMC protection components, and is offered in a ...

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Western Digital fighting Toshiba sale decision

Western Digital has responded to Toshiba’s announced intention to sell its memory business to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix. WD says it has three actions going through arbitration procedures which could prevent the sale taking place. Western Digital’s statement on the decision reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite ...

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Toshiba samples 10TB HDD

Toshiba is sampling its 10TB MG06 Series Enterprise Capacity HDD s. The 10TB drives have maximum sustained transfer rate of 237MiB/s and an MTTF of 2.5M hours. The drive provides a SATA 6Gbit/s interface and 7,200 rpm performance. It supports emulated 512 Advanced Format (512e) technology for compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments; or ...

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China makes 820 million smartphones in January-July, says MIIT

China-based firms made 1,100.82 million handsets in January-July 2017, increasing 4.0% on year, and 820.75 million of them were smartphones, growing 3.4%, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).



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Asustek expects China gaming notebook market to reach 3 million units in 2018, says paper

Asustek Computer internally estimates that China's gaming notebook market will have a shipment scale of three million units in 2018 and is aiming to account for over 30% of the volumes, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News report citing company president Jerry Shen as saying.

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MEMS sensor demand for smartphones, automotive surging

MEMS sensor demand for smartphones and automotive applications has been surging, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC backend houses, which have enjoyed a ramp-up of orders placed by their MEMS chip customers.

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ITC ruling raises Section 201 concern

US International Trade Commission (ITC) has upheld Suniva's complaint that imported solar cells and PV modules have harmed US PV makers. The ruling has raised concern that the US government will invoke Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose anti-dumping tariffs, set minimum import prices or maximum import volumes.

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Imec pushes OLED pixels to 1250 ppi resolution

Imec has developed cost-effective fine-pixel photolithography for manufacturing ultra-high resolution OLEDs. Imec, and its development partner Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) ,  aimed to push  pixel density beyond 1000 ppi. Imec and CPT have verified that a novel photolithography process can allow for ultrafine OLED patterns. The proposed technique does not require using fine-metal masks to ...

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Samsung tries to catch up Everspin on MRAM

Samsung has taped out a 28nm FD-SOI MRAM and is preparing to use eMRAM as a core for SoCs. The technology was developed with IBM and Infineon and its first use will be in an NXP i.MX processor. Volume production is scheduled for 2018. Samsung is catching up with Everspin whose MRAM is made by ...

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2017年9月25日 星期一

Nvidia CEO in China: Big Push for AI Inference

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang came to Beijing this week to put Nvidia's new AI inference platform --TensorRT3 -- front and center at the company's GPU Technology Conference (GTC).

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Nexperia,  the former Standard Products division of NXP, has brought out a range of 80 V dual Power-SO8 MOSFETs in the popular LFPAK56D package. With the addition of this new 80 V range of MOSFETs Nexperia now has devices, ranging from 30 V to 100 V. LFPAK56D is fully automotive qualified to AEC-Q101 and has ...

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Two new Arduino boards offer connectivity

Arduino has two new boards out which deliver connectivity – the Arduino MKR WAN 1300 (LoRa) and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400. The Arduino MKR WAN 1300 delivers LoRa low-power WAN connectivity, and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400 adds global 2G/3G communications capability. Both boards measure  67.64 x 25mm and,with low power consumption, are suitable ...

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Osram reveals future of LED automotive headlights

LED make Osram has revealed the prototype for its thousand pixel matrix headlight LED. By pixelating the light source, arbitrary headlight beam patters can be created, extending the concept of main/dip beam to complex beam shapes that minimise dazzle while maximising useful illumination for the driver. Sketch of Eviyos Branded Eviyos, the 1,024 pixels are ...

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PlayNitride chairman upbeat about micro LED

While many industry observers believe it will take at least three more years before micro LED can be commercialized, PlayNitride is undertaking trial production of micro LED panels for niche market applications for a few types of devices, expecting the technology to take off soon, according to company chairman and CEO Charles Li.

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Beijing, Shanghai IC sectors prospering

The flourishing IC industries in Beijing and Shanghai has been pushing forward China's overall IC industry development, enabling the rapid rise of China in the global marketplace. Development of both IC sectors in Beijing and Shanghai is also being backed by the "National Semiconductor Industry Development Guidelines" and "Made in China 2025" published by China's State Council aimed at making a major push in the development of the local IC industry.

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Education IT spending in APEJ to surpass US$11.8 billion by 2020, says IDC

Education IT spending in the APEJ (Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan) area will increase from US$9.8 billion in 2015 to US$11.8 billion by 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.86% for the period, according to IDC.



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Young Fast shifting focus to niche touch panel market

Touch panel solution provider Young Fast Optoelectronics expects the ratio of shipments of its touch panels for industrial control, medical and niche market applications to account for 40-50% of its total sales in the second half of 2017 compared to 40% in the first half, according to company president Hsu Yi-chuan.

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Corning keen to expand Gorilla presence in auto glass market

Corning is gearing up efforts expanding the presence of its Gorilla Glass in the automotive applications market, which is expected to see significant growths for in-car display products.

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GloFo brings on 12nm finfet process

Globalfoundries will roll out a 12nm finfet process at its New York fab next year which is 15% denser with 10% better performance than its 14nm process. “We plan to introduce new client and graphics products based on GF’s 12nm process technology in 2018 as a part of our focus on accelerating our product and ...

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2017年9月24日 星期日

Wafers short till 2020

The already constrained supply of wafers is about to tighten further, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND, Chinese foundries and China memory fabs are driving 12 inch demand. LCD driver ICs, fingerprint sensors, power management ICs and CMOS image sensors are driving 8-inch demand. Wafer suppliers are in no hurry to increase capacity having been caught out ...

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HERE spent $767 million in 2016 on hi-res mapping for driverless cars

HERE, the road-mapping company owned by BMW, Audi and Mercedes, spent $767 million on R&D in 2016, reports Reuters. HERE was bought by the Germans for €2.55 billion euros in 2015. A 15% stake was sold to Intel earlier this year. Another, smaller, stake was sold to Pioneer and a 10% stake was sold to ...

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Will Imagination Deals Deliver MIPS to China?

Imagination will sell itself to Canyon Bridge, while simultaneously agreeing to sell MIPS to Tallwood VC. Has Imagination structured both deals in such a way to let Canyon Bridge -China's government-backed buyout - have access to MIPS CPU IP?

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Taiwan IC backend firms to enjoy strong 4Q17

A ramp-up of orders for communications chips, as well as TV panel-use driver ICs and TDDI (touch with display driver) chips, will enable Taiwan-based IC backend firms to enjoy a particularly strong fourth quarter of 2017, according to industry sources.



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iPhone X component suppliers told to slow down delivery, say sources

Apple has reportedly instructed component suppliers to withhold part of the component shipments prepared for the production of iPhone X devices, according to sources from Taiwan-based upstream component suppliers.

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Machine vision will gradually expand into consumer applications: Q&A with Arbor CTO Karl Chen

Taiwan-based Arbor Technology has been in the industrial PC (IPC) secor for over 20 years and has always been an important upstream partner of worldwide IPC brand vendors. With automated production lines and Industry 4.0 gradually becoming the new trends of the IPC industry, Arbor also is keenly developing solutions for clients.

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Taiwan fabless IC firms seeing orders pull in from China

Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers including suppliers of LCD driver ICs, consumer electronics ICs, PC peripherals, networking and communications chips, have recently seen orders from China pull in, and are expected to post brisk sales results for September, according to industry sources.

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Motech PV module alliance plan faces challenges

Solar cell maker Motech Industries' plan to form an alliance running joint PV module production with other Taiwan-based PV firms has met with challenges as two potential members' boards of directors have decided against joining the group, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan August unemployment rate down on year

Taiwan had 461,000 jobless citizens in August 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.89% which rose 0.05pp sequentially but dropped 0.19pp on year, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

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Taiwan August manufacturing production index up

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 117.21 for August 2017, increasing 3.62% sequentially and 4.03% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).



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MIT Spins Second Wireless Charger Start-up

MIT spin-off Pi Inc., promises a wireless recharging station that works over about a foot.

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Sondrel's CEO Takes the Long View

As Sondrel integrates the IMGWorks design team and invests to hire 100 more engineers in Europe, CEO Graham Curren weighs in on China, Brexit, and the benefits of market-driver diversity.

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Canyon Bridge bid for Imagination emerges

The expected bid for Imagination by the China-backed private equity company Canyon Bridge has materialised. However the offered price of 182p per share has hardly moved the Imagination share price which was 123p before the bid and is 129p now, suggesting that the bid may fail because of regulatory issues. At 182p, Imagination is being ...

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2017年9月22日 星期五

iPhone 8 Still Packs Q'Comm, NXP

A teardown of the iPhone 8 by iFixit shows good news for Qualcomm, NXP, Broadcom, and Skyworks, who maintain or expand sockets in Apple's latest handset.

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Is Moore’s Law still the law?

Moore’s Law has been declared dead before. Progress may be slowing, but can new materials save it?

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Oxford signs microscope probe deal with Chinese tech firm

Oxford Instruments NanoScience has signed a technology collaboration agreement with a Chinese firm to jointly develop high precision scanning probe microscopes (SPM). The UK firm will work with CASmF Science and Technology (CASmF) to apply its superconducting magnet system known as TeslatronPT, to  a physical probe that scan 2D materials, nano-structures and superconductivity. Dr Junyun ...

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Expanding silicon IP firm opens HQ in Plymouth

Moortec, the developer of silicon IP for monitoring chip performance, has opened a new UK headquarters on the Plymouth Science Park. Moortec’s IP monitors on-chip parameters such as process, voltage and temperature (PVT) in CMOS devices fabbed on 40nm down to 7nm process technologies. In this way designers can optimise chip performance. Ramsay Allen, v-p ...

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Vicor adds 20A device to 48V buck regulators

Vicor has extended its Cool-Power range of 48V buck regulators with a 20A output device. The PI352x range of 20A devices as to the existing 10A 48VIN PI354x products. The PI3523 is a 48VIN, 3.3VOUT nominal buck regulator capable of supplying up to 22A. This family of regulators enables 48VIN to 20A point-of-load voltages spanning ...

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EEVblog #1025 – Minute Physics + Bill Nye Promoting Rayton Solar

A response to Minute Physics’s latest video promoting the Rayton Solar equity crowd funding campaign.
Dave looks at Rayton Solar and it’s investment risk and practical viability and asks the question, should Minute Physics have promoted this? And they roped in Bill Nye too!
Let me know what you think, did Minute Physics cross a line in doing a paid promotion of a risky commercial equity crowd funding campaign?

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EEVblog #b10000000000 – 1K Micro Magic

What can you fit in 1K words of microcontroller program memory?
Dave takes a look at two old projects of his published in Electronics Australia magazine using a PIC 16F84 with 1K of program memory.
Will the assembly language code still compile first go in MPLABX after 18 years?

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Comment: Lorry convoys are the beginning of a long road-trip

The technology driving the move towards autonomous vehicles will change more than just cars and lorries, writes Richard Wilson. The government’s ambitious plan to explore the running of convoys of semi-autonomous lorries on UK motorways took everyone by surprise. Not least because autonomous vehicle technology is still very much in the development phase. So can ...

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Comment: Apple fails to answer the real question: why?

The new Apple iPhones include some clever new tech that serves no purpose at all.

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Taiwan solar cell makers reportedly to form alliance to better competitiveness

Four Taiwan-based solar cell makers, Neo Solar Power (NSP), Gintech Energy, Solartech Energy and Tainergy Tech, have reportedly planned to form an alliance to integrate resources to enhance competitiveness in the international market, according to industry sources.

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CPT reports tight supply for all-screen smartphone panels

Chunghwa Picture Tubes' (CPT) current supply of all-screen smartphone applications are falling short of demand by 20%, according to company vice president Ryan Chung.

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China enacting law to facilitate development of self-driving cars

In an effort to accelerate the development of its smart car industry, China is moving to legislate regulations governing the production and driving of smart vehicles. Its National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is mapping out a set of guidelines to steer the smart car industry development in the country and pave the way for the legislation, according to NDRC sources.

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Asustek to launch next-generation ZenFone 5 in March 2018

Asustek Computer will release its next-generation ZenFone 5 family products at the earliest in March 2018 as the operations of its smartphone business have returned to a growth truck as a result of recent restructuring, according to company CEO Jerry Shen.

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Panel makers look to mini LED backlighting

As OLED smartphone and TV applications are in short supply with the market segment dominated by Samsung Display and LG Display, LCD panel makers from China and Taiwan are working with LED wafer and chip maker Epistar to develop direct-type backlighting using mini LED chips, according to industry sources.

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China PV installations reach 3.36GWp in August

PV installations completed and on grid around China in August totaled 3.36GWp, with 1.95GWp for power stations, and 1.41GWp for distributed PV systems, according to media reports.

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Commentary: HTC faces new challenges after Google deal

HTC, which built the world's first Android-based smartphone, the HTC Dream, in 2008, is facing new challenges after it signed a US$1.1 billion deal to hand over its ODM team or half of its R&D unit to Google.



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Taiwan science park January-June revenues reach NT$1.152 trillion

Government-run Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) and Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) generated combined revenues of NT$1.152 trillion (US$38.09 billion) in January-June 2017, growing 6.87% on year, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

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Infineon to sell Newport manufacturing site to Neptune 6

Infineon Technologies and a private company trading under the name Neptune 6 have announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Neptune 6 will acquire IR Newport, a subsidiary manufacturing site of Infineon. Both parties expect to conclude the deal by the end of September 2017.

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Valeo joins ISELED Alliance

ISELED, an open alliance formed to develop and market an innovative in-vehicle LED lighting concept within a full ecosystem, has announced that Valeo has joined it as its new member.

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China IoT market scale estimated to exceed CNY1.5 trillion by 2020

China's IoT (Internet of Things) market scale has posted an annual expansion of over 20% over the past few years, and the market value is estimated to exceed CNY1.5 trillion (US$227.6 billion) by 2020 from CNY900 billion in 2016, according to the China Annual IoT Development Report (2016-2017) recently released by China Economic Information Service (CEIS).

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TCA modifies exhibition shows to attract new participants

Taipei Computer Association (TCA) has been making adjustments to the names of its exhibition shows for 2018 and adding more new applications in order to attract more participants from industries other than the PC sector.

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North American semi equipment industry billings fall to 4-month low in August

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a 3.9% sequential decrease in billings worldwide in August reaching a four-month low of US$2.18 billion, according to SEMI.

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Robust memory, panel demand to drive Supreme sales growth in 2H17

Taiwan-based Supreme Electronics, a major IC distributor for Samsung Electronics, is expected to report strong results for the second half of 2017 driven by rising memory prices and strong OLED panel demand, according to industry sources.



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2017年9月21日 星期四

Globalfoundries Reportedly Asks EU to Probe TSMC

Globalfoundries has asked European regulators to investigate rival chip foundry TSMC, accusing its larger competitor of unfair competition, according to a report by the Reuters news service.

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Google Buys HTC's Pixel Team

Search engine giant makes second major foray into smartphones.

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7 Views of Globalfoundries in 2017

Globalfoundries announced 12-nm FinFET and RF-SOI processes as part of an annual update on its road map.

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Winner-Takes-All Strategy at Customers' Expense?

Competitors, partners, and customers in our interdependent semiconductor industry often have mutual interests that could benefit from cooperation. By offering customers efficiency, we'd all win. Sadly, that's not how things often work.

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MediaTek, Huawei Partner in 5G Development

MediaTek and Huawei, China's largest mobile phone maker, have completed 5G tests in Beijing with the aim of building an industry ecosystem that includes 5G terminals, chipsets, instruments, and networks.

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AMD Copilots Tesla AI Chip, Says Report

Tesla is collaborating with AMD on a machine-learning ASIC for its self-driving cars that could replace Nvidia GPUs that the car maker uses, said a report.

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IoT sensors serve and protect

 A range of IoT‑ready sensors allow remote automated response systems to be implemented, writes Gabriele Fulco. The number of unattended and remote facilities has increased, thanks to the internet of things (IoT). Isolated and rough terrain locations as well as sites that require minimal attention can now be given fully automated and connected protection. The ...

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SnapEDA part models can be searched in PCB123 design tool

An internet parts library for printed circuit board design has now been adapted so that it can be searched inside the PCB123 design environment of Sunstone Circuits, the US-based design tool firm. These are the models created by SnapEDA and they conform to the latest IPC standards (IPC-7351B). This is intended to help PCB designers in ...

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UK national measurement lab steps up from the shadows, for UKplc

The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is to actively engage with industry to improve national measurement and data quality. Its aim is to “help the UK become a world-leader in emerging technologies such as 5G, quantum devices and graphene, and harness the power of big data for social and economic good”, said the laboratory, which ...

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Feabhas offers graduates free C skills assessment

Writing good code is an important skill for new embedded designers. Graduates can now have their skills in embedded C, C++ or UML assessed for free by software training company Feabhas. Creating reliable code for C and C++ in embedded applications is not always straight-forward and does require expertise. Jo Cooling, director at Feabhas: writes: ...

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Government project aims at atomic clock production in the UK

A government-funded research project to develop semiconductor lasers for the design of miniature atomic clocks (MacV) has received new funding. Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC) in Cardiff leads the £705,000 project, which also involves CST Global, the Glasgow-based III-V opto-electronic, semiconductor foundry and Cardiff University and the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. The aim of the ...

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Comment: Support your local robot

Robotics designers need access to a choice of reliable, small, rugged and versatile connectors, writes Bob Stanton. Opportunities for small, affordable robots are burgeoning throughout sectors like manufacturing, distribution, security, healthcare, and for home users. Cost-effective, teachable, collaborative robots can now work safely alongside people in factories or packaging areas; mobile robots are taking on ...

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VIA sees rising income from embedded product lines

VIA Technologies has been pushing its embedded platform business and now sees 30-40% of its revenues coming from the segment, according to the company.

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Taiwan delegation exploring smart manufacturing in Germany

In an effort to explore the essence of Industry 4.0 and promote technical exchanges and cooperation with German tech firms, a Taiwan smart machinery delegation is currently visiting related government units and leading automation firms in Germany, looking to better understand how German enterprises are incorporating smart manufacturing solutions to serve as reference for Taiwan's industrial upgrades and transformations, according to Taiwan's Industrial Development Bureau (IDB), organizer of the delegation.

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Touch Taiwan 2017: CPT, imec demonstrate ultra-high resolution OLED display

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) is showcasing an ultra-high resolution OLED display product, which has been realized by photolithography patterning of organic light emitting diode (OLED) arrays, at the ongoing Touch Taiwan 2017.



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KYEC grabs testing orders for analog, PA chips from Murata

King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) has recently obtained testing orders for analog chips and power amplifiers (PA) from Murata Manufacturing, according to industry sources.

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TSMC to hold over 70% of PWM IC orders from Qualcomm

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to grab 70-80% of the total orders for Qualcomm's new-generation power management ICs (PWM IC), according to industry sources.

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GIS to foray into ultrasonic fingerprint sensor solutions in 2018

Touch panel specialist General Interface Solution (GIS) plans to enter volume production of ultrasonic fingerprint sensor olutions in 2018 targeting Android-based smartphone vendors and other niche markets, according to company CTO Paul Chen.

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AUO to stick to smart investment strategy, says chairman

AU Optronics (AUO) will continue its "smart investment" policy focusing on improvement of operating efficiency and ramping up the ratio of value-added products to shore up its revenues and profits, according to company chairman Paul Peng.



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Google throws billion dollar lifeline to HTC.

Google is paying HTC $1.1 billion for its IP and and for the transfer of HTC employees working on the Google Pixel phone. About half HTC’s R&D staff – about 2000 people – will move across to Google. HTC will continue to make its own phones and the Vive VR system. HTC has been struggling ...

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Imagination’s stand-alone neural network accelerator – and two new GPUs

Imagination Technologies has revealed hardware neural network accelerator (NNA) intellectual property, as well as a pair of GPUs. 2048MACs/cycle in a single core, is predicted, with higher levels through multi-core integration. Scroll down for new Imagination GPUs “Companies building SoCs for mobile, surveillance, automotive and consumer systems can integrate the PowerVR Series2NX neural network accelerator for ...

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2017年9月20日 星期三

Toshiba Agrees to Sell Chip Unit to Bain-led Group

Latest twist in months-long saga has Toshiba agreeing to sell for $18 billion to group that includes Apple, Dell and sk Hynix, leaving Western Digital out in the cold.

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FPGAs speed up verification

The next generation of prototyping based on FPGAs could solve the concurrent verification conundrum, writes Juergen Jaeger. With ever-increasing embedded software content in complex system‑on‑chip (SoC) devices, it has become crucial to develop and to verify software and hardware concurrently, and as early as possible in the design cycle. FPGA-based prototyping plays an increasingly important ...

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Maintain your bill of materials

It pays to invest time to maintain your bill of materials as a design progresses, writes Leigh Gawne.

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DDR5 Runs in Rambus' Labs

Rambus has working chips in the lab for DDR5, the next-generation DRAM bus while the industry debates the road ahead for memory in servers.

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Smartphones: Have NFC Will Travel

Vendors of smartphones - both Android and iPhone - are putting an NFC reader in the hands of consumers, making NFC a globally interoperable platform to connect, commission, and control things with NFC tag. IoT is NFC's next big opportunity.

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Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the third time.

Intel has delayed its 10nm processor Cannon Lake for the third time, reports Digitimes, because of 10nm production problems. The new date for Cannon Lake is now the end of next year. Cannon lake was originally scheduled for last year. The reasons cited are delays with its 10nm process. Yesterday, in Beijing,  Intel said its ...

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Northern Manufacturing Show: A good time to show off

Caroline Hayes shares some of the highlights for visitors to the Northern Manufacturing & Electronics show in Manchester.

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Scottish team makes digital printing breakthrough for mass storage

Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have developed a new form of high-resolution ‘printing’ which could have wide-ranging applications in data storage, anti-counterfeiting measures, and digital imaging. The research, published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, describes the development of nano-scale plasmonic colour filters that display different colours depending on the orientation of ...

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French research looks to improve in-flight Wi-Fi

French researchers at Leti have developed a technique for testing high-speed wireless communications on airplanes that allows different system deployments in cabins. In a joint research project with Dassault Aviation, Leti, which is a research institute of CEA Tech, demonstrated a channel-measurement campaign over Wi-Fi frequency in several airplanes, including Dassault’s Falcon business jet. A ...

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DRAM supply to remain tight in 2018, says DRAMeXchange

Global DRAM supply is forecast to grow by less than 20% next year, according to DRAMeXchange. DRAMeXchange points out that the big three DRAM suppliers – Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron – have opted to slow down their capacity expansions and technology migrations. This is likely to keep prices at high levels as during this ...

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Northern Manufacturing Show: Engineering SMEs, OEMs a key strength

Phil Valentine, MD at European Trade & Exhibition Services, explains how this year’s Northern Manufacturing Show reflects changes in the industry.

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Infra-red lit sensors can spot carbon-dioxide

LEDs can shed infrared light on low cost, long lifetime sensors to monitor carbon dioxide levels in buildings, suggests Ralph Weir. To most people carbon dioxide (CO2) is a ‘greenhouse gas’, but not directly harmful to humans. We breathe it out, plants take it in for photosynthesis. Whereas miners once took canaries into the mines ...

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Touch Taiwan 2017: GIS, Young Fast demonstrating touch panel technologies

Taiwan's leading touch panel solution providers, including General Interface Solution (GIS) and Young Fast Optoelectronics, are exhibiting their latest touch panel solutions at the ongoing Touch Taiwan 2017.

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Taiwan GloRIA project to connect academics with industrial resources

Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has unveiled a project to connect universities' R&D capability with enterprises' resources to commercialize technologies developed by local academics.



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Diverse LPWAN specs available for different IoT applications

Traditional telecom is suitable for long-range coverage but involves high power consumption, and the coverage capability is also largely affected by the density of base stations deployed. Now in the IoT (Internet of Things) era, many application scenarios require transmission of small data volume, creating an opportunity for Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) to emerge rapidly for extensive applications in smart manufacturing plants, smart cities and the agriculture, fishing and livestock sectors.

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Acer increases marketing budget for gaming notebooks

Acer is ramping up marketing budgets for its gaming notebook business, and will support e-sport teams in various areas to promote its brand image in the sector.

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UL to help Taiwan set up certification capability for offshore wind farms

US-based Underwriters Laboratories (UL) will have DEWI-OCC, a Germany-based UL company providing global one-stop wind energy certification services for turbines and components, provide technology for Taiwan-based organizations to certify offshore wind power generation in Taiwan.

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FormoSat-5 sends blurry images

Images transmitted from FormoSat-5, Taiwan's first satellite completely designed domestically, are blurry with light spots beside buildings in urban areas, according to National Space Organization (NSPO) under government-sponsored National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs).

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Touch Taiwan 2017: ITRI showcases flexible display, touch technologies

The Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is showcasing a variety of flexible display and touch technologies/solutions at the ongoing Touch Taiwan 2017.



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India PV firms eyeing overseas markets

India-based PV module makers have been extending their business operations from the domestic market to overseas ones, especially those with trade barriers against China-based competitors, according to industry sources.

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PCB firm Unitech president steps down

Unitech Printed Circuit Board president Hsu Cheng-hung has stepped down to take responsibility of a fatal accident that occurred at its Yilan plant in June 2017, according to the Taiwan-based PCB manufacturer.

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Leading-edge paves way for pure-play foundry growth, says IC Insights

In 2017, the 7% increase in the total pure-play foundry market is forecast to be almost entirely due to an 18% jump in sub-40nm feature size device sales, according to IC Insights.

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Intel reschedules Cannon Lake launch to year-end 2018, say sources

Intel has reportedly rescheduled the release of its next-generation Cannon Lake-based processors to the end of 2018, which has already affected notebook brand vendors' new projects and their suppliers, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

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Synopsys tapes out DesignWare, Interface IP for TSMC 7nm FinFET process

Synopsys has announced the successful tape-out of a broad portfolio of DesignWare Foundation and Interface PHY IP for TSMC's 7nm process technology, including logic libraries, embedded memories, embedded test and repair, USB 3.1/2.0, USB-C 3.1/DisplayPort 1.4, DDR4/3, MIPI D-PHY, PCI Express 4.0/3.1, Ethernet and SATA 6G. Additional DesignWare IP, including LPDDR4x, HBM2 and MIPI M-PHY, is scheduled to tape out in 2017.



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EIH, Plastic Logic strengthen e-paper partnership

Taiwan-based e-paper solution provider E Ink Holdings (EIH) has renewed a master supply agreement (MSA) with Germany-based Plastic Logic, a designer and manufacturer of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic display (EPD) products.

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Taiwan market: CHT teams up with Fox+ to provide OTT service

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has teamed up with Fox+, a video streaming service unit of the Fox Networks Group, to provide OTT services in the Taiwan market, as the telecom operator has ramped up its efforts to enrich its content service.

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NAND flash supply to stay tight til end-2017, says Phison chairman

The supply of NAND flash memory is expected to remain tight through the end of 2017, according to Khein Seng Pua, chairman of flash device controller supplier Phison Electronics.

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Touch Taiwan 2017: Corning showcases advanced glass technologies

Corning is showcasing technologies from its advanced glass portfolio at Touch Taiwan 2017, including two innovations enabled by its Gorilla Glass: cover glass for consumer electronics, and interiors for autos.

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Intel provides 10nm updates, plan for 10nm FPGA

Intel has provided updates for its 10nm process and plans for 10nm FPGAs, as well as the availability of its 64-layer 3D NAND for data center applications. The disclosures were made during a recent company event held in Beijing, China.



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Toshiba said to have chosen Bain group

It is reported that Toshiba has chosen the Bain consortium tobuy its chip business. This has been reported before but Toshiba has had to back-track on the choice of Bain in theface of legal objections from jv partner Western Digital. The Bain geoup contains Hynix, Apple, Kingston, Dell, INCJ, DBJ and some presence from Toshiva ...

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GloFo and Soitec ink supply deal

Globalfoundries  and Soitec today announced that they have entered into a five-year agreement to ensure the volume supply of FD-SOI wafers. The agreement, which is effective immediately, builds on the existing relationship between the companies and guarantees wafer supply for GF’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology platform. “Globalfoundriesis delivering industry leading ultra-low power, performance-on-demand FD-SOI solutions ...

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2017年9月19日 星期二

In 2017, the 7% increase in the total pure-play foundry market is forecast to be almost entirely due to an 18% jump in <40nm feature size device sales, says IC Insights. Although expected to represent 60% of total pure-play foundry sales in 2017, the ≥40nm pure-play IC foundry market is forecast to be up only ...

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The U.S., China and the Chip Industry

Beijing cried foul over Trump's decision to block the acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor. It should be prepared for more of the same.

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