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| China's YTMC starts layoff |
2/10/2023 |
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Staff laid off by Chinese memory-maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YTMC) not only lost their jobs, but were evicted from their company-subsidized apartments in Wuhan, according to Chinese media outlet Caixin.
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| Nordic Launches Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC and Dev Kit |
2/9/2023 |
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The nRF7002 is the first in Nordic’s Wi-Fi product family and is a low power Wi-Fi 6 companion IC providing seamless dual band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) connectivity. It can be used together with Nordic’s nRF52 and nRF53 Series multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and the nRF9160 cellular IoT (LTE-M/NB-IoT) System-in-Package
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| Molex works on road noise cancelling on electric vehicles |
2/9/2023 |
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Active noise cancellation (ANC) works by measuring the waveform of the unwanted sound and generating an equivalent inverted signal. This signal is then transmitted alongside the original. The two waveforms, being inverted images of each other, combine and are weakened by the effect of phase cancellation. This, then, reduces the amplitude of the original signal and thereby reduces the volume of the unwanted noise.”
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| MediaTek expects Q1 sales to fall over 6% |
2/7/2023 |
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At an investor conference Friday, MediaTek said it posted NT$118.14 billion (US$3.95 billion) in net profit last year, a 6 percent increase compared with 2021, as well as record high consolidated sales of NT$548.80 billion, an 11.2 percent year-over-year increase.
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| Semtech Corp. is collaborating with Panasonic Connect for display products |
2/7/2023 |
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With the introduction of the Intel Smart SDM product concept, AV input options choices have increased for standard displays. Display manufacturers can now simply provide the SDM card slot on their products to be populated at deployment with the SDM input interface required by the installation.
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| Pressure falls on SoftBank from pending Arm IPO |
2/7/2023 |
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The Japanese tech giant's planned listing of British chip designer Arm, one of the crown jewels of Masayoshi Son's sprawling conglomerate, is seen as crucial to improving SoftBank's financial performance and boosting shareholder returns.
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| Feds Slam Apple, Google for Abusing App-Store Power |
2/6/2023 |
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It’s near-impossible to distribute an app outside of Apple’s App Store (iOS bans third-party app stores and direct downloads of apps from websites) and difficult outside Google’s Play Store (Android lets you do those things, but only after disabling multiple security defaults).
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| Global server shipment forecast adjusted down |
2/3/2023 |
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The four major North American cloud service providers (CSPs) have scaled back their server procurement quantities for 2023 and could make further downward corrections in the future. Meta is the leader among the four in terms of server demand reduction, followed by Microsoft, Google, and AWS.
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| Transitions to smaller nodes are a major stumbling block for analog design |
2/3/2023 |
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One of the key challenges that semiconductor engineers face when analyzing their solutions, however, revolves around how much analog designs can shrink when moving from one chip manufacturing process node to another. In other words, there are certain analog building blocks that don’t scale adequately to smaller IC manufacturing nodes.
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| Renesas Gate Driver IC Targeted at EV Inverters |
2/2/2023 |
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Gate driver ICs are essential components to EV inverters, providing an interface between the inverter control MCU and the IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs that deliver power to the inverter. They receive control signals from the MCU in the low-voltage domain and transfer these signals to rapidly turn power devices on and off in the high-voltage domain.
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| AMD realizes profit in the midst of PC downturn |
2/2/2023 |
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Advanced Micro Devices reported a slight net profit in the fourth quarter, with strong performance in data centers but weakening sales of chips for game graphics and consumer PCs.
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