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Smartphone shipments to be lowest in a decade in 2023
Smartphone shipments to be lowest in a decade in 2023
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Global smartphone shipments will be 1.15 billion units in 2023, down 4.7 percent year-on-year and the lowest figure for a…
Arm’s customers agree to buy-in to IPO
Arm’s customers agree to buy-in to IPO
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Several customers of processor intellectual property licensor Arm Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, England) have agreed to buy shares in the company,…
Lumotive offers optical beam-steering metasurface
Lumotive offers optical beam-steering metasurface
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Lumotive LLC (Redmond, Washington) has said its LM10 digital optical beam-steering chip based on liquid crystal metasurface technology is now…
QuickLogic, YorChip to develop FPGA chiplets
QuickLogic, YorChip to develop FPGA chiplets
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FPGA vendor QuickLogic Corp. has partnered with YorChip Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.) to create UCIe-compatible FPGA chiplets. UCIe stands for…

Startup uses MEMS ultrasound to improve audio speaker
Startup uses MEMS ultrasound to improve audio speaker
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SonicEdge Ltd. (Binyamina, Israel), founded in November 2018, is developing an ultrasound-based MEMS audio speaker. This is claimed to provide enhanced audio in small form factors at both low and…
Transport of Radio Frequency (RF) through Optical Methods
Transport of Radio Frequency (RF) through Optical Methods
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Newly designed prototypes in the Next-Generation Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converters (NG-PADC) project – IIT Madras research Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are critical components for developing the next generation of advanced digital receivers.
Blumind startup pursues analog AI at the edge
Blumind startup pursues analog AI at the edge
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Blumind Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a startup company that has developed an analog architecture for neural network inferencing at the edge. The use of analog computation and storage for…
Magnets in the brain could control mood, depression
Magnets in the brain could control mood, depression
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A European research project is planning to use nanoscale magnets to treat neurological disorders such as depression. Researchers from the University of Glasgow are part of the Wireless Deep Brain…
Ubicept raises US$8 million for SPAD-based imaging
Ubicept raises US$8 million for SPAD-based imaging
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Ubicept Inc. (Boston, Mass.), a 2021 spin-off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison, has raised US$8 million in seed investment to develop image sensors and computer vision…
Chinese CMOS image sensor startup raises funds
Chinese CMOS image sensor startup raises funds
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Hefei Haitu Microelectronics Co. Ltd., a startup founded in 2018, has completed a Pre-B round of equity financing worth “several hundred million yuan,” the company has said. As 100 million…
CEO interview: with Katrin Kobe of Bosch Quantum Sensing
CEO interview: with Katrin Kobe of Bosch Quantum Sensing
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Robert Bosch GmbH is creating a quantum sensing startup. eeNews Europe caught up with Dr. Katrin Kobe, the CEO of Bosch Quantum Sensing, to check up on progress. For now,…
SoftBank prepares to file Arm IPO
SoftBank prepares to file Arm IPO
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SoftBank Group is expected to file an initial public offering of shares in processor intellectual property licensor Arm Ltd. this week. The IPO is expected to take place on NASDAQ…
Advanced FPGA module for digital/analog process management
Advanced FPGA module for digital/analog process management
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An adaptable industrial-grade platform, the FPGA module offers up to 32 ADC input channels with 16-bit resolution and up to 1 MSPS programmable gain.
IBM analog AI chip uses phase-change memory
IBM analog AI chip uses phase-change memory
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IBM Research has developed a multicore compute in memory analog chip for machine learning using phase-change memory (PCM) to reduce the power consumption. The analog compute in memory AI chip…
Analog IP tackles side channel attacks
Analog IP tackles side channel attacks
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Protecting against side channel attacks is a critical part of chip design, says Chris Morrison, director of product marketing at Agile Analog in Cambridge. Researchers recently showed they can jailbreak…
Smartphone shipments fall for eighth consecutive quarter
Smartphone shipments fall for eighth consecutive quarter
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Smartphone shipments totalled 265.9 million units in 2Q23 according to the latest data from Omdia, a fall of 9.5% over last year as the impact of recycling cuts in. The…
Semiconductor market continues its plunge
Semiconductor market continues its plunge
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Semiconductor sales were up in the second quarter of the year but 17.3% down on the same period last year says the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The 4.7% increase in…
The US needs to generate, retain more chip workers
The US needs to generate, retain more chip workers
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The US will have a shortfall of 67,000 workers for the semiconductor industry by 2030 according to a report from Oxford Economics released by the Semiconductor Industry Association. There will…
Huawei plans to use SMIC’s ‘nearly-7nm’ process
Huawei plans to use SMIC’s ‘nearly-7nm’ process
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China’s telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies is planning to restart designing mobile phone chips, circumventing export controls, according to Nikkei. Huawei was a leading smartphone vendor – rivalling Apple and Samsung…
Mitsubishi buys into GaO power startup
Mitsubishi buys into GaO power startup
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has taken an equity position in Novel Crystal Technology Inc. (Sayama City, Japan) a company that sells gallium-oxide wafers for power semiconductors. Neither the value of the…
Silicon wafer shipments on the up, says SEMI
Silicon wafer shipments on the up, says SEMI
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After two quarters of sequential decline silicon wafer shipments increased in the 2Q23, according to the Silicon Manufacturers Group within industry body SEMI. Worldwide wafer shipments increased 2.0 percent quarter-over-quarter…
Qorvo adds AI to QSPICE circuit simulator
Qorvo adds AI to QSPICE circuit simulator
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Qorvo has released its QSPICE circuit simulation software with support for digital AI and machine learning frameworks. QSPICE was previewed to eeNews Power at the PCIM exhibition in May and…
TMOS thermal sensor provides PIR alternative
TMOS thermal sensor provides PIR alternative
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STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has developed a low-power sensor with micromachined thermal transistors to replace conventional passive infrared detectors. The sensor can be used for human-presence and -motion detection in…
Hua Hong plans to raise US$3 billion via Shanghai listing
Hua Hong plans to raise US$3 billion via Shanghai listing
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China’s second largest foundry Hua Hong Semiconductor Co. Ltd. has said it plans to raise 21.2 billion yuan (about US$2.95 billion) through a secondary IPO in Shanghai. The foundry aims…
Sony increases CIS market share as Samsung, Omnivision retreat
Sony increases CIS market share as Samsung, Omnivision retreat
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The CMOS image sensor market was worth $21.29 billion in 2022 flat with 2021 and reflecting difficulties in the smartphone market, according to Yole Group. The flatness of the market…
Thalia raises $2.7m for IP reuse tool
Thalia raises $2.7m for IP reuse tool
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Thalia Design Automation in Wales has raised $2.7 million (£2.125m) to take its Amalia IP reuse tool down to 12nm and expand its operations. The investment in Thalia led…
Stellantis orders €10 billion of automotive chips
Stellantis orders €10 billion of automotive chips
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Car maker Stellantis has entered into €10 billion (about US$11.2 billion) of chip purchasing agreements as part of a broad semiconductor strategy. Stellantis NV (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), the automotive company…
Enough China export restrictions, the SIA tells US government
Enough China export restrictions, the SIA tells US government
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The US-based Semiconductor Industry Association has said the US should not escalate restrictions on trade with China. It did so as leading US chip company CEOs met US government representatives…


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