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| Most CEO support Trump's position towards Huawei |
7/24/2019 |
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Huawei has partnered with a Chinese state-owned firm Panda International Information Technology on projects in North Korea over at least eight years.By doing so Huawei, which has used US technology in its components, may have violated US controls on exports to the isolated North Korea regime.
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| Apple is in talks to buy Intel’s modem chip business |
7/24/2019 |
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If the purchase happens, it would again underscore Apple’s increased willingness to consider large multibillion-dollar acquisitions with its war chest of $225 billion in cash and marketable securities.
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| Moore's Law is not likely to run out of steam with advanced architectures |
7/23/2019 |
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The slow decline of Moore’s Law has become a talking point for chip executives since 2013, when Henry Samueli said that Broadcom had been discussing it with its customers. Like others in the industry, Samueli also expressed optimism that engineers will leverage new architectures to drive performance gains.
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| Samsung put LPDDR5 memory into new phone design |
7/23/2019 |
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The 12-Gb LPDDR5 is approximately 1.3 times faster than the LPDDR4X mobile memory found in today’s smartphones; the LPDDR4X comes in at 4.2 Gbps. As part of a 12-GB package, the LPDDR5 can transfer 44 GB of data (the equivalent of 12 full-HD movies) in a second.
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| Renesas enhanced AI performance by using processor-in-memory (PIM) technology |
7/23/2019 |
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Renesas’ existing generation of AI inference accelerators, based on its dynamically reconfigurable processor (DRP) architecture, achieves in the order of 1TOPS/W, enough to enable real time image recognition at the end node. The new PIM technology is almost an order of magnitude better in terms of TOPS/W and could be the basis for implementing incremental learning at the endpoint.
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| Intel announced a significant partnership with SAP |
7/22/2019 |
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Intel plans to tune its Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory for SAP’s suite of applications.The multi-year partnership includes giving SAP early access to emerging Intel technologies and building a Center of Excellence.
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| Senate introduced bill to keep Huawei from trading U.S. patents |
7/22/2019 |
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Huawei is pressing Verizon Communications Inc. to pay licensing fees for more than 200 of its patents, the Journal has reported. The tactic is seen by some in Washington as retaliation against U.S. policy makers' crackdown on the Chinese firm, which is the world's biggest telecom gear maker and has become a central sticking point in the U.S.-China trade talks.
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| Vendors see rising MOSFET order for second half of year |
7/22/2019 |
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Brand vendors' new PCs and notebooks are set to become available in the third quarter, coming with next-generation CPU and GPU platforms that require more MOSFET chips. Many Taiwan-based MOSFET suppliers have already seen rising orders for the third quarter.
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| Nvidia recruited safety expert from Intel |
7/22/2019 |
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Nvidia this week snatched up Riccardo Mariani, formerly chief functional safety technologist at Intel Corp., and an Intel Fellow, to be its vice president of industry safety. The position is a new role for Nvidia, added to augment its “world-class safety team,” according to Nvidia. The goal is to institute “an overarching safety view across multiple domains and technologies.”
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| GDDR found its path to AI applications |
7/19/2019 |
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Last couple of years have seen GDDR technology hit a “Goldilocks zone” of sorts with uptake in emerging use cases such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, and 5G networking — all of which need speed and high performance.
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| DOJ request a pause in antitrust ruling involving Qualcomm |
7/18/2019 |
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According to the Department of Justice, national security could be threatened by a May ruling by Judge Lucy Koh, who found that Qualcomm broke competition law by charging cellphone makers high fees for the rights to the company's wireless equipment.
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| Arm initiates a "Try-Before-Buy" model on its IP license |
7/18/2019 |
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Called Arm Flexible Access, the model allows IC designers to initiate projects before they license IP and pay only for what they use at production, giving designers more freedom to experiment, evaluate and innovate.
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| EU funds project to create vision-basedl reference platform |
7/18/2019 |
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The resulting reference platform includes a full development kit, comprising an FPGA-based embedded, multicore computing board, parallel real-time operating system and development tool chain with guidelines, coupled with ‘real world’ use cases focusing on medical x-ray imaging, driver assistance and autonomous drones with obstacle avoidance.
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| Algolux video sensor can see around corners |
7/18/2019 |
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It seems that a team of researchers from Algolux, the University of Montreal, and Princeton University has developed a new method that lets conventional color cameras, like the ones in your smartphone or in vehicles, see hidden objects that are occluded by walls or other objects in the scene.
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| TSMC June sales up 21.9% |
7/17/2019 |
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June sales were $2.77 billion, up 21.9 percent from the same month a year before and up 6.8 percent from May. TSMC's revenue for first half of the year was $14.51 billion, down 4.5 percent on the first half of 2018.
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| Symantec breaks off merger talk with Broadcom |
7/17/2019 |
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Price negotiations broke down. Broadcom was last week willing to offer as much as $28.25 per share in cash for Symantec and was hoping to ink a deal on Monday. CNBC, which first reported the news on Monday, said Symantec was looking for more than $28 per share.
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| High performance computation may turn to specialized Chiplets |
7/17/2019 |
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One example is Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), the bespoke processors that excel at the mathematical operations required for machine learning, another are the many Bitcoin mining chips released when the cryptocurrency was at its peak. These chips differ from the traditional CPU (Central Processing Unit) found inside computers, which is able to handle a very broad range of tasks for the computer and can be considered a jack of all trades and master of none.
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| DRAM prices turned around and rose 13% |
7/16/2019 |
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Prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips gained as much as 13 percent in a week on concerns about supply disruption at Korean chipmakers responsible for more than 70 percent of DRAM global supplies following Japan’s export curbs on materials needed for chip production.
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| Samsung is readying to deal with trade dispute with Japan |
7/16/2019 |
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The de facto leader of Samsung Group, JY Lee, reportedly convened a meeting on Sunday with senior executives of Samsung Electronics' display and semiconductor businesses upon his return from Japan, ordering them to come up with plans that took into account Japan's trade restrictions.
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