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| GlobalFoundries posted a 5-percent quarterly jump in revenues |
12/2/2021 |
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Despite global chip shortages, GlobalFoundries reported net income of $5 million in its third quarter ending Sept. 30, putting the chipmaker back in the black after reporting a $293 million net loss a year ago. The company also exceeded analysts’ earnings-per-share estimates of $0.00 with an adjusted EPS of $0.07.
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| Progress on the Nvidia-ARM acquisition |
12/1/2021 |
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European Commission is still seeking feedback from competitors and customers of the two businesses. Its options are to accept the concessions, demand more concessions, or open a four-month investigation, with the investigation seeming most likely.
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| Machine Vision Propel Factory Revolution |
12/1/2021 |
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Machine vision plays a core part in data generation and collection: It captures the physical world and transforms it into digital data in the form of point clouds so that the data can be further evaluated and translated by AI algorithms into valuable information.
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| MediaTek to offer 7nm TV controller chip |
11/30/2021 |
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Built with TSMC’s N7 advanced process technology, the MediaTek Pentonic 2000 offers unparalleled performance and power efficiency with features including powerful artificial intelligence (AI) engines, Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation (MEMC), Versatile Video Coding (VVC) decoding and picture-in-picture (PiP) technology.
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| New Micron LPDDR5 DRAM further reduced power consumption |
11/30/2021 |
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Micron recently announced that its low-power DDR5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM has been validated for MediaTek’s new Dimensity X1 5G chipset for smartphones, representing the flagship of MediaTek’s Dimensity 5G SoC portfolio. Micron has already shipped samples of its LPDDR5X built on its 1a (1-alpha) node aimed at high-end smartphones.
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| Renesas now makes Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) |
11/29/2021 |
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Renesas seems determined to repeat Silego’s previous success with its ultra-low-end GreenPAK line of programmable mixed-signal devices and super-simple design tools, this time in a low-end FPGA line that will appeal to many companies who just need a bit of programmable logic.
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| Semiconductor Industry grew 27.6% y-to-y |
11/29/2021 |
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The major memory companies reported very healthy 3Q21 revenue increases versus 2Q21 with all of them up double digits, led by Kioxia at 21.5%. Among the leading non-memory companies Qualcomm, AMD, Infineon, and NXP all had double digit growth. Intel was the only top semiconductor company with a revenue decline, down 2.2% in 3Q21 versus 2Q21.
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| Ouster Inc expanded in sale and services to Japan and South Korea on digital lidar. |
11/29/2021 |
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“We have already seen significant traction in the industrial and robotics verticals with growing interest across our other target industries. With the appointment of commercial leadership in-country, we intend to generate new leads and increase direct customer sales, while delivering faster support to our customers and ecosystem partners.”
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| AMD is working with MediaTek on developing Wi-Fi 6E Modules |
11/26/2021 |
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The AMD RZ600 Series Wi-Fi 6E modules containing MediaTek’s new Filogic 330P chipset. The Filogic 330P chipset will power next-generation AMD Ryzen-series laptop and desktop PCs in 2022 and beyond, delivering fast Wi-Fi speeds with low latency and less interference from other signals.
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| Global DRAM revenue up 10% in Q3 |
11/26/2021 |
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The server-related segment of the market has been propping up the overall demand; and because of this, most DRAM suppliers were able to post a marginal growth in shipments for 3Q21.
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| Smart TV moving into 7nm chips |
11/24/2021 |
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TSMC makes devices 30 percent faster, reduces power consumption by 55 percent, and increases their logic density three-fold compared with gadgets using the 16nm process.
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| Legendary co-founder of Fairchild died at age 92 |
11/24/2021 |
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One of the least-well-known heroes of the semiconductor revolution, Jay Last, died on November 11, 2021. Last was one of the famous team of eight people that left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to found Fairchild Semiconductor.
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| Samsung memory products achieved carbon reduction certification |
11/23/2021 |
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“It is exciting to see our environmentally sustainable efforts receiving global acknowledgements,” said Seong-dai Jang, Senior Vice President and Head of DS Corporate Sustainability Management Office at Samsung Electronics. “We will continue our path towards a sustainable future with ‘greener’ chips enabled by Samsung’s cutting-edge technology.”
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| Chroma ATE is into EV power testing |
11/23/2021 |
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One of the trends driving the test and measurement industry right now is the automotive sector, because of its safety-critical nature. But one trend that is driving this sector is the EV segment, amid the move to cut carbon emissions.
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