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| Energy harvesting startups to power up remote IoT sensors |
8/19/2021 |
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The vision of wireless energy is not a new concept — it’s just orders of magnitude less ambitious about the amounts of power involved. The idea of transmitting electrical power through the air originated with the famed and troubled inventor Nikola Tesla way back in the late 1890s.
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| Intel to release new Arc GPU in Q1 2022 |
8/18/2021 |
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Arc will represent Intel's first serious run at the gaming GPU market, but the company isn't starting from zero. The company has decades of experience in writing and updating graphics drivers, and it is in the habit of releasing both "stable" driver packages and beta drivers with improvements for specific games.
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| New approach is needed for memory design |
8/14/2021 |
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Discrete memory vendors pursue technology scaling aggressively and relentlessly to maintain performance and cost leadership. However, the slowing of Moore’s Law means that smaller geometries alone are not enough to keep pace with the market requirements. The vendors must also constantly innovate with architectural innovations and increasingly faster interfaces.
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| Automotive MCU sales to surge 23% in 2021 |
8/14/2021 |
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The huge market for automotive MCUs — which accounted for about 40% of total MCU sales over the last decade — has been on an uneven ride in the past several years.
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| Pandemic is affecting industries in the Philippines |
8/14/2021 |
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Various governments in Southeast Asia have implemented nationwide or regional lockdowns as well as movement control orders in order to curb the spread of the pandemic. As such, MLCC suppliers including Taiyo Yuden, Murata, and Samsung, all of which have facilities located in Malaysia and the Philippines, are now confronted with an increasing risk of uncertainties regarding their production capacities and shipment schedules.
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| Singapore is ambitious in expanding its semi market |
8/13/2021 |
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Singapore has set a target for 2030 to increase its electronics manufacturing by 50%, with an eye on semiconductor development. In order to reach its target, foreign direct investment is expected to play a large role.
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| Jensen Huang, of NVIDIA receives Industry honor |
8/13/2021 |
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Robert N. Noyce Award, The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) presents the Noyce Award annually in recognition of a leader who has made outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry in technology or public policy.
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| Q3 DRAM prices steadying |
8/12/2021 |
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Spot prices of DRAM modules have been falling since May and were 32% down by August 3rd and are Now lower than contract prices for 3Q21 by almost as much as 20% and are unlikely to experience a price hike in the short run.
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| To add spectrometer function to a smartphone ? |
8/12/2021 |
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Smartphones of the near future will be able to detect malignant melanoma from benign skin lesions. Spectricity, a spinoff of Imec (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center), claims it has developed chip-size hyperspectral sensor and imager solutions that could turn any smartphone into a real pocket lab.
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| EV chip sales up 140% |
8/12/2021 |
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The worldwide electric vehicle (EV) sales in June grew to 587,308 units, up by 140% year-on-year (YoY) and by 29% month-on-month (MoM),
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| TSMC reported July revenue down 16.1% from June |
8/11/2021 |
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TSMC has revised upward its revenue growth outlook this year to above 20%, as the foundry segment and the overall semiconductor market (excluding memory) are expected to increase 17% and 20%, respectively.
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| Huawei will sell off its x86 server operations |
8/11/2021 |
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Based on a company financial report, Huawei's x86 server revenue fell last year to about US$3.9 billion (NT$108.49 billion) and will lose tens of billions overall after selling off the assets.
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| Google Pixel 6 might have embedded copy of Samsung Exynos |
8/11/2021 |
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Rumors that Google was working closely with Samsung on the design and development of the chip. That would mean that Tensor would have a lot of Exynos (Samsung's line of homegrown chips) DNA. But some digging by site GalaxyClub (Dutch) showed what could be Tensor's official designation in Samsung's portfolio.
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| Global cloud market at $42 billion |
8/11/2021 |
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Synergy Research reported last week that the global cloud market ascended to $42 billion in the second quarter, a $2.7 billion increase over the previous quarter and an impressive 39-percent jump from the same three-month period last year.
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