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| Infineon to expand research site in Austria |
4/9/2019 |
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DICE (Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering) has broken ground in Linz for a new facility.The new building, which is due to be completed in 2020, will provide room for 400 employees. The existing site currently employs 180 people working for the development center. Its main focus is on 77 GHz radar chips for driver assistance systems.
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| First data distribution platform certified for Avionics applications |
4/9/2019 |
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The Open Group FACE consortium announced on March 27. The conformance certification specifically applies to the “edge computing” vendor’s Java programing language application programming interface (API). The company’s data distribution service dubbed Vortex also supports C++.
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| Austin researcher disclosed design that beats a Nvidia V100 neual network |
4/9/2019 |
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A researcher from UT Austin described mini-batch serialization (MBS), a method to slash memory accesses needed to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) so that more work fits in on-chip buffers. When implemented on its own WaveCore chip, the technique reduced DRAM traffic 75%, improved performance 53%, and saved 26% of system energy compared to conventional approaches and accelerators.
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| Intel's Optane DIMMs for server so far a disappointment |
4/8/2019 |
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Intel and Micron launched 3D XPoint with great fanfare in July 2015 as the first new memory architecture in decades. Nearly five years later, the chips are finally shipping in both solid-state drives (SSDs) and dual-inline memory modules (DIMMs), but their sparkle has dimmed.
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| 802.11Ah WiFi for IoT comes into market |
4/8/2019 |
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The Wi-Fi Alliance announced HaLow at CES 2016 as the outcome of the 802.11ah process kicked off with significant help from Qualcomm engineers in 2014.The so-called 'HaLow' products promise delivery of up to Mbits/s over distances of tens of meters to a kilometer and support for thousands of nodes on an access point.
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| Toyota to offer licensing of hybride car technology |
4/8/2019 |
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Toyota Motor Corp. announced a plan to start granting royalty-free licenses on the company’s closely guarded hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) patents.It will also offer “fee-based” technical support to purchasers of their powertrain electrification systems, including Toyota motors, batteries, PCUs and control ECUs.
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| Semiconductor materials sales hit record in 2018 |
4/5/2019 |
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The global semiconductor materials market grew 10.6% in 2018, propelling semiconductor materials revenues to US$51.9 billion to eclipse the previous high of US$47.1 billion set in 2011.
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| Cadence Design moves into system analysis with an electromagnetic field solver |
4/5/2019 |
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The tool boasts electromagnetic simulation capability that delivers up to 10 times the performance of Cadence’s previous-generation field solver. The Clarity 3D Solver also offers a distributed multiprocessing architecture that gives it “virtually unlimited capacity” along with “gold-standard accuracy,” according to Cadence.
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| SIA calls on the government to boost funding on chip research |
4/4/2019 |
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The Semiconductor Industry Association, which represents firms such as Intel Corp, Micron Technology Inc and Nvidia Corp, is asking U.S. officials to raise federal funding for chip research from a current $1.5 billion to $5 billion over the next five years and double funding for related fields such as materials science.
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| 7nm order picks up at TSMC |
4/4/2019 |
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With handset chip clients stepping up their pace of advanced chip orders, TSMC is expected to see its 7nm manufacturing processes run at full utilization in the third quarter of 2019.
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| Huawei defended its commitment to network security |
4/4/2019 |
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Huawei Technologies Ltd., the biggest global maker of network equipment for phone and internet companies, announced last year's sales surpassed $100 billion despite U.S. pressure on American allies to shun it as a security threat.
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| AI automates the financial industry |
4/4/2019 |
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AI is already widespread in many areas of the financial services sector. AI and machine learning (ML) are frequently used today in credit card fraud detection, bank customer service chatbots, and robo-advisors which provide financial advice to consumers.
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| IoT can increase productivity substantially |
4/3/2019 |
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A 2018 PwC report, Australia’s IoT Opportunity: Driving Future Growth, stated that across five industries assessed, which represent 25 per cent of Australia’s GDP, the Internet of Things (IoT) can achieve potential annual benefits of $194-$308 billion over a period of 8-18 years. This impact translates into average productivity improvements of about 2 per cent per annum across construction, mining, manufacturing, healthcare and agriculture.
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| U.S. durable goods order plunge in February |
4/3/2019 |
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Big-ticket manufactured goods fell 1.6% in February, the biggest drop in four months, reflecting a plunge in the volatile commercial aircraft category. Demand in a key sector used to track business investment decisions also declined in February.
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| 5G networks to drive more memory requirements |
4/3/2019 |
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5G will enable the ultra-low latency, ultra-fast response time needed to support online gaming, artificial reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), autonomous vehicles, and more exotic potential use cases such as remote surgery. This means we are moving to a more distributed model of computing, including the memory.
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| Intel announced Xeon processors packaged with FPGA and Optane memories |
4/3/2019 |
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Strategically, Intel has tied its CPUs, FPGAs, and memories into a package deal, claiming performance benefits. It’s part of an industry trend to harness several chips into a dogsled that drives systems performance forward given the slowing rate of performance gains in individual chips.
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| Renesas completed the acquisition of IDT |
4/2/2019 |
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Together with IDT, Renesas says it will now deliver a broader range of technology and embedded solutions by combining IDT’s RF, high-performance timing, memory interface, real-time interconnect, optical interconnect,
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| Chinese manufacturing activity rebounced some in March |
4/2/2019 |
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The government loosened lending controls and increased spending to reverse the slowdown, but authorities moved gradually to avoid igniting a rise in debt. The ruling Communist Party also has promised to give entrepreneurs who generate China's new jobs and wealth a bigger role in the economy.
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| CPU shortage driving down PC global shipments |
4/1/2019 |
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CPU shortages have disrupted shipment schedules for mid-range and high-end PCs since the second half of 2018 while also starting to affect shipments of low-end models in the first quarter of 2019, causing demand for related chips to fluctuate sharply.
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