Intel Wants Chip Customers to Feel the Need for Speed Again
posted on April 03, 2020 12:05
Intel Corp. is trying to sell its new laptop chips in an old way -- by emphasizing their speed.
The world’s biggest chipmaker is touting the clock speed of its new H line of processors, citing their ability to process data at more than 5 gigahertz, or 5 billion cycles a second.
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The chips are down
posted on April 03, 2020 12:04
It was announced this week that the Trump administration was bringing forward its latest wave of punitive action on Huawei, the Chinese technology giant.
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Report: TSMC ready to start volume production of Apple A13 chips
posted on April 03, 2020 12:03
Last week, Nikkei Asian Review claimed Apple considered delaying its first 5G-enabled handset due to concerns about COVID-19 related supply chain problems and potentially weak demand. But TSMC has joined the firm’s circuit board manufacturers in stating Apple hasn’t called for a production delay.
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Teardown Highlights Huawei’s Reliance on U.S. RF Components
posted on April 03, 2020 12:02
It’s not easy to tell how far the U.S. administration’s attempt at preventing U.S. companies doing business with Huawei can go, given the symbiotic relationship among them. Given the make-up of Huawei’s new smartphone, the answer is: certainly not as far as the Administration wants to go — at least not yet. But Trump keeps trying. Now he wants to force IC manufacturers who use production equipment produced in America to get U.S. government approval before selling to Chinese customers.
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Smartphone maker Xiaomi says China sales already close to full recovery
posted on April 03, 2020 12:01
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country starts to return to normal following the coronavirus lockdown.
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Google Invents AI That Learns a Key Part of Chip Design
posted on March 24, 2020 17:05
There’s been a lot of intense and well-funded work developing chips that are specially designed to perform AI algorithms faster and more efficiently. The trouble is that it takes years to design a chip, and the universe of machine learning algorithms moves a lot faster than that.
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How PUF Technology is Securing IoT
posted on March 24, 2020 17:04
More IC vendors are beginning to explore a device-level technology approach for safeguarding data called physically unclonable function, or PUF. Though silicon production processes are precise, this technology exploits the fact that there are still tiny variations in each circuit produced.
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Qualcomm Poised For Post-Virus Rebound
posted on March 24, 2020 17:03
Although hopes are fading for rebounding component demand in the second half of the year (2H), Qualcomm is positioned to be an exception. The chip maker will benefit from the long-term 5G investment cycle, according to Canaccord Genuity, as Apple re-enters the model for shipments and global demand for smartphones improves.
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The Ins And Outs Of Silicon Carbide
posted on March 24, 2020 17:02
Cree’s CTO explains the different characteristics of silicon and SiC and where each one works best.
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Fab Equipment Poised For A Record 2021
posted on March 24, 2020 17:01
Global fab equipment spending promises to crawl out of a gloomy 2019 and see a modest recovery this year before a sharp uptick drives record investments in 2021 in a vivid display of the decades-old cyclicality playing out in the semiconductor industry.
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