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| Siemens Sofware Secures Embedded RISC-V Development |
6/9/2022 |
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Siemens’ Nucleus ReadyStart embedded development solution includes a host of new features that help customers enhance the security, flexibility, and cloud connectivity of their next-generation embedded products based on the RISC-V architecture.
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| 99% of EV buyers want wireless charging |
6/8/2022 |
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It is clear that wireless charging is set to transform the EV ownership experience, reducing barriers for adoption and improving the public charging landscape with interoperability.
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| China's lock-down to affect smartphone IC supplies |
6/7/2022 |
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Taiwanese smartphone IC designer MediaTek Inc (???) and US rival Qualcomm Inc felt the sting of China’s COVID-19 lockdowns as their smartphone IC shipments from the country fell in April, market advisory firm CINNO Research said.
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| IBM warns: "the Chips Act is no sure thing." |
6/7/2022 |
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There's clearly a global recognition that we need to build up semiconductor supply chain capabilities, particularly in the U.S., Europe and Japan. There's a recognition that over-reliance on Taiwan is neither economically wise nor prudent from a national security standpoint. The reality is the war in Ukraine, while it has nothing to do with chips in Taiwan, has reminded everybody — as COVID did — that supply chains need to be robust.
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| Synopsys offers Big Data Analytics Technology |
6/7/2022 |
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The Synopsys DesignDash solution delivers a real-time, unified, 360-degree view of all design activities for faster decision making, a deeper understanding of run-to-run, design-to-design and project-to-project trends, and enhanced collaboration in the SoC development process.
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| India wants to become the next major global semiconductor hub |
6/6/2022 |
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Make in India: an initiative to attract foreign investments to start looking at India as a viable manufacturing hub by easing trade barriers in foreign policies. This initiative opens up the possibility of creating more jobs for a very heavily populated country like India, developing economic areas meant to serve for the development of these industries and hopefully strengthen the Rupee against the US dollar.
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| Can EV batteries be free of nickel and cobalt? |
6/3/2022 |
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Demand for nickel and cobalt has surged in recent years and automakers are adopting strategies to hedge against the turbulent market. Tesla has changed its tune and said in April that nearly half of its vehicles sold in the first three months of the year do not include nickel or cobalt.
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| Samsung is on the road to growth by M & A |
6/3/2022 |
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Potential takeover targets include NXP, Texas Instruments, Microchip Technologies and Analog Devices, according to multiple analysts including JJ Park, an analyst at J.P. Morgan.
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| Intel lobbies Chip deal to US and Eu government |
6/3/2022 |
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Intel Corp twitted a press release with the title "Are Chips the Testbed for Increased Transatlantic Cooperation?" recently, making clear its stance to support a collaboration between the US and the EU to yield the greatest benefits from investments in leading-edge manufacturing investments and more advanced semiconductor research.
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| Startup Ayar Labs to work with Nvidia on optical chips |
6/2/2022 |
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Nvidia, in a statement. “The next million–X will require new, advanced technologies like optical I/O to support the bandwidth, power, and scale requirements of future AI and ML workloads and system architectures.”
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| Samsung Electronics taking the lead with 44% in global DRAM revenue |
6/1/2022 |
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Samsung is undoubtedly the winner, but market share does not necessarily translate into actual profits, nor does it mean that the company still leads the trio in terms of profitability rate. Samsung's market share is about twice that of Micron, but their memory business operating profit margin shows a gap of only 3-10pp.
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