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ARM to compete with AI customers in 2025, says report
ARM to compete with AI customers in 2025, says report
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Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc is planning to set up a AI chip division and build a prototype AI…
Infleqtion, Qinetiq demonstrate unjammable quantum navigation
Infleqtion, Qinetiq demonstrate unjammable quantum navigation
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The UK has hosted commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation system technologies that can resist being jammed or spoofed. Infleqtion,…
Technical conference supports chiplet paradigm
Technical conference supports chiplet paradigm
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One of the highlights of the upcoming IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) will be a complete computer…
Dual op amp uses JFET input for audio quality
Dual op amp uses JFET input for audio quality
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Nisshinbo Micro Devices has developed a dual channel operational amplifier with a low noise level and THD for improved audio…

Intel, Qualcomm confirm immediate US ban on chip sales to Huawei
Intel, Qualcomm confirm immediate US ban on chip sales to Huawei
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The US Department of Commerce has revoked licenses granted to Intel and Qualcomm to supply certain chips to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) with effect from May 7. Intel…
Analyst drops chip market forecast after 1Q24 “train wreck”
Analyst drops chip market forecast after 1Q24 “train wreck”
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Malcolm Penn, founder and chief analyst with Future Horizons, has lowered his forecast for global chip market growth in 2024 to 4.9 percent from his previous estimate of 16 percent.
India’s Tata Electronics starts to export chips
India’s Tata Electronics starts to export chips
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Tata Electronics Ltd. – a subsidiary of the Indian steel to automobile conglomerate – has started to export chips packaged at a pilot line in Bengaluru, according to the Economic…
Compound semiconductor veterans back microLED startup Kubos
Compound semiconductor veterans back microLED startup Kubos
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Kubos Semiconductors Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has secured investment from Drew Nelson, and Geoff Haynes – veterans of the compound semiconductor sector – and from the Development Bank of Wales, FOV…
BrainChip, Gaisler work on AI in space
BrainChip, Gaisler work on AI in space
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BrainChip has said it is working to integrate its Akida neuromorphic processor IP into Frontgrade Gaisler’s fault-tolerant, radiation-hardened microprocessors. The collaboration is set to provide a first space-grade system-on-chip with…
India’s Mindgrove, launches RISC-V based secure MCU
India’s Mindgrove, launches RISC-V based secure MCU
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Fabless Indian chip startup Mindgrove has launched what it describes as India’s first indigenously designed commercial high-performance microcontroller. The company said it can provide design-in support for Indian customers. Mindgrove…
Guerrilla buys Gallium Semiconductor’s GaN product lines
Guerrilla buys Gallium Semiconductor’s GaN product lines
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Guerrilla RF Inc. (Greensboro, North Carolina) has acquired the entire portfolio of GaN power amplifiers and front-end modules from Singaporean RF GaN chip vendor Gallium Semiconductor. It was announced in…
DeepX moves AI chips into video analytics, intelligent security
DeepX moves AI chips into video analytics, intelligent security
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AI startup DeepX Co. Ltd. (Seongnam, South Korea) has said it will expand its product line to include processors focused on the intelligent video analytics and security system markets. The…
China’s ATX Semiconductor moves into Malaysia
China’s ATX Semiconductor moves into Malaysia
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IC packaging and test service provider ATX Semiconductor Group has opened its first factory outside China in Melaka, Malaysia, with an investment of 258 Malaysian Ringgit (about US$55 million). The…
China’s JBD launches AR waveguide display test and correction
China’s JBD launches AR waveguide display test and correction
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Chinese microLED display manufacturer Jade Bird Display Ltd. (Shanghai, China) has launched a piece of equipment for Augmented Reality waveguide Testing and Correction (ARTC). JBD is not explicit about how…
Micron ships 232-layer QLC NAND flash memory
Micron ships 232-layer QLC NAND flash memory
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Micron has started shipping a 232-layer quad-level cell NAND flash memory within the Micron 2500 solid-state disk drive and some under its Crucial brand. Micron claims the memory is the…
The birth of a unique analog quantum processor
The birth of a unique analog quantum processor
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ICFO researchers build QUIONE, a quantum simulator capable of observing individual atoms in a strontium quantum gas From the ICFO press release: Quantum physics needs high-precision sensing techniques…
Semiconductor IP market kept growing in 2023
Semiconductor IP market kept growing in 2023
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Despite a shrinking chip market, revenues from design IP grew to US$7.04 billion in 2023, an increase of 5.8 percent, according to Eric Esteve of analyst IPnest. The fall in…
Smartphone, PC markets reflect market recovery
Smartphone, PC markets reflect market recovery
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Global smartphone shipments were 289.4 million in 1Q24 while 59.8 million PCs shipped, according to IDC. These were up 7.8 percent and 1.5 percent year-over-year, respectively. Samsung replaced Apple as…
Huawei builds R&D base for home-grown lithography
Huawei builds R&D base for home-grown lithography
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Huawei is completing a US$1.66 billion R&D facility in Shanghai where one of the functions will be to develop lithography technologies, according to Nikkei Asia. The R&D facility is part…
Tesla signs Indian chip supply deal with Tata, says report
Tesla signs Indian chip supply deal with Tata, says report
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Electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas) has signed a deal with India’s Tata Electronics to supply semiconductor chips, according to The Economic Times, which referenced unnamed government officials. Tata…
Falcomm gets seed funding for ‘dual-drive’ power amplifier
Falcomm gets seed funding for ‘dual-drive’ power amplifier
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Fabless chip startup Falcomm Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) has raised US$4 million in seed funding to develop its dual-drive silicon-based power amplifier for which it claims record energy efficiency and enhanced…
Rapidus opens sales office in Silicon Valley
Rapidus opens sales office in Silicon Valley
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Japan’s advanced logic foundry Rapidus Corp. has formed a US subsidiary, Rapidus Design Solutions (RDS), and appointed Henri Richard as general manager. Rapidus Design Solutions is located in Santa Clara,…
Nexperia falls victim to cyberattack
Nexperia falls victim to cyberattack
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China-owned semiconductor company Nexperia BV (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) has reported that hackers gained unauthorized access to its computer systems in March 2024. According to local news reports Nexperia sensitive information…
TSMC’s sales soar in March
TSMC’s sales soar in March
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Revenue in March at leading foundry TSMC was a third larger than in the same month a year before while at UMC sales increased by 2.7 percent. TSMC’s revenue in…
Lockheed Martin backs wiring automation startup Q5D
Lockheed Martin backs wiring automation startup Q5D
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Q5D Technologies Ltd. (Bristol, England), a company that provides tooling to automate wiring harness manufacture, has raised US$3.0 million in funding. The company was founded in 2018 and the funding…
ByteDance invests in China’s ReRAM startup
ByteDance invests in China’s ReRAM startup
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ByteDance Ltd. (Beijing, China), the owner of video-sharing app provider TikTok, has invested in InnoStar Semiconductor (Shanghai, China), a Chinese startup developing resistive RAM technology. The deal was conducted by…
Change at the top at Helio Display Materials
Change at the top at Helio Display Materials
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Helio Display Materials Ltd. (Oxford, England) has formed a partnership with Haylo Ventures to focus on displays for AR/VR headsets and appointed David Hayes as executive chairman. Simon Jones, previously…
Q-Pixel to demo 3K, 6,800ppi microLED display
Q-Pixel to demo 3K, 6,800ppi microLED display
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Q-Pixel Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.) has produced a 3K by 1K resolution active-matrix color microLED screen that measures 1.1cm by 0.6cm, smaller than a finger nail. The display boasts 6,800…


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