China-based ZTE has received a cash injection from the government enabling the company to accelerate the development of its own application processors, while Lenovo also intends to develop ARM-based chips in-house, according to industry ...
Tags: ARM-Based Chips, IC Industry
Harman, the leading global infotainment, audio and software services company, today announced a joint collaboration with Renesas to deliver an in-vehicle network solution and premium entertainment experience that helps automakers take the ...
Tags: Harman, SoC, Ethernet AVB
Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA has launched what is claimed to be an industry-first 100G-CWDM system-on-chip fully integrated optoelectronic S-roC receiver IC ...
Tags: silicon photonics, receiver, transmitter
The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry will rise 13.1% in 2015, thanks mainly to continued-strong demand coming from the smartphone sector, according to Digitimes Research. The output from MediaTek, Taiwan's largest IC design ...
Tags: LCD Driver, IC
Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi already hinted it has a new handset up its sleeve for a launch tomorrow, but now it looks like it has more than one. Earlier in the week, it tweeted an image that many took to refer to the Mi 5, the next ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Consumer Electronics, Devices
Altera Corporation is demonstrating leading-edge automotive solutions based on its field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology at CAR-ELE JAPAN, a premier international automotive electronics exposition taking place January 14 to 16, ...
Tags: multi-axis, simultaneous, high-speed motor control, Auto
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) is commencing volume production of its SkyLiTE front-end solutions powering LTE platforms in emerging markets. Skyworks’ newest ...
A third version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 could soon be landing with Qualcomm’s most powerful chip at its core. The two current Galaxy Note 4 models make use of an Exynos 7 Octa processor and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor ...
Tags: Galaxy, Consumer Electronics
Guangdong Jinming Machinery and Xi’an Jiaotong University have signed a contract of development for a blown film line control system based on specialised chips. The partnership will see the two parties develop a highly ...
Tags: blown film line, blown film
Two years after launching its first-generation 100G coherent transponder, CIVCOM of Petach Tikva, Israel (which provides high-end DWDM tunable transponders) claims to be first to release a line of second-generation 100G coherent ...
Tags: Clariphy DSP, Transponders
The LinkIt ONE development board, which aids in the easy prototyping of wearable and IoT devices, has been released by Seeed Studio. The board, which was designed for the MediaTek LinkIt Development Platform, was developed by Seeed Studio ...
Tags: wearable devices, IoT devices
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, Electronic Technology
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has appointed industry veteran Emad Afifi to the newly created role of senior ...
Tags: GigOptix, Senior Director, Electrical
FinScale Inc of Livermore, CA, USA, which develops and licenses device and process innovations for the semiconductor industry, has announced availability of its qFinFET technology, a next-generation 3D MOSFET architecture and manufacturable ...
Google, Apple, or a smart startup could disrupt Intel, which increasingly looks awkwardly poised as the world’s largest maker of microprocessors. That’s the view of Dave Ditzel, a veteran microprocessor designer. I talked to ...
Tags: Google, Disrupt, Electronics