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| Foxconn to transform into a technology service provider |
11/15/2019 |
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Foxconn Technology Group will step up transforming into a provider of technology services by deepening deployments in electric vehicle, smart heath care and robot industries while also strengthening development of core technologies including AI, semiconductor and 5G/6G mobile communications, according to its chairman Young Liu.
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| Wireless car keys migrating to ultra-wide band (UWB) for better connectivity |
11/15/2019 |
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Following on from its September launch of its UWB chipset for mobile devices, NXP has now introduced the counterpart UWB chip for the car, the NXP NCJ29D5. This means it now has a UWB solution for the key fob, smartphone and car, which the company said opens up the possibility for true handsfree smartphone access and remote parking, enabled by the precise distance management and localization capability of UWB technology.
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| A portable device you can DIY your ECG |
11/15/2019 |
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QT Medical, a startup based out of California, is tackling this very issue with their portable ECG device, PCA 500, which has been specifically designed for the ‘layman’ to use at home. By using a PCA 500, a patient can carry out their own ECG scan and then upload their results to an online platform for their doctor to then examine.
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| TSMC earmarks $6.6 billion for Advanced Process |
11/14/2019 |
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TSMC has approved capital appropriations of about US$6.62 billion for the construction of new fab facilities, installation of advanced technology capacity and upgrade of advanced packaging capacity, as well as installation of specialty technology capacity, and R&D capital investments and sustaining capital expenditures for first-quarter 2020.
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| TI dropped 6 major distributors in China |
11/14/2019 |
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The Dallas, Texas-based chip giant launched a bold initiative to do the company's business in China without relying on distributors. TI quietly made that announcement early October during China’s national holiday week.
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| Blaize now offers an AI graphic processor |
11/14/2019 |
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Blaize describes its GSP as capable of performing “direct graph processing, on-chip task-graph management and execution, and task parallelism.” In short, Blaize designed the GSP to fulfill AI processing needs that have been previously unmet by GPU, CPU or DSP.
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| Kioxia Memory offers new family of embedded NOR |
11/13/2019 |
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Kioxia Memory recently unveiled a family of SLC NAND flash memory products for embedded applications that need high-speed data transfers, including flat screen TVs, printers, wearable devices, and robots. Kioxia’s second-generation Serial Interface NAND is compatible with the widely used Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and offers increased speeds from 104 MHz to 133 MHz as compared with the previous generation.
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| Inphi and Synopsys to split assets of eSillicon |
11/13/2019 |
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eSilicon was established in 2000 and provides complex FinFET ASICs, market-specific IP platforms and advanced 2.5D packaging solutions. Targeting high-bandwidth networking, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G infrastructure markets.
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| Q4 wafer shipment will be flat |
11/12/2019 |
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Affected by the US-China trade war, many clients have failed to honor procurement contracts inked with silicon wafer suppliers since the second quarter of 2019. Shipments of 12-inch wafers picked up slightly in the third quarter thanks to strong demand from TSMC to support its 7nm and 5nm production,
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| There is room for Phase Change Memory (PCRAM) |
11/11/2019 |
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Jim Handy, principal with Object Analysis, said the reason the technology continues to hold such promise is its really small crosspoint cell and its ability to be stacked. Intel, for example, is stacking two decks right now, he said, but recently revealed it can go up to four decks. “They intend on reducing costs by increasing the number of decks.”
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| Little Polish company has big idea on password security |
11/8/2019 |
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The name of the product is ELIotPro. It stands for Easy Lightweight Internet of Things Protection, at least the acronym is easy to say if not to type. The technology includes a lightweight encryption algorithm that solves another problem of IoT security as most encryption is to much of a memory hog to be used in small devices. It’s small size is the key to how it works.
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| Nvidia offers smallest size supercomputer board |
11/8/2019 |
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The Xavier NX board can achieve 14 to 21 TOPS INT8 performance at power budgets between 10W and 15W, respectively. This amount of processing power would enable running multiple neural networks in parallel, and processing data from multiple high-resolution image sensors simultaneously.
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