Thanks to Trendforce for this one – the top ten fabless companies in Q3:

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Mouser’s Methods extends its remit to smarter edge devices in the third issue of its e-zine. The new issue of Methods examines how and why industries are working toward a smarter edge, making the case for moving compute tasks directly onto devices and turning the IoT hierarchy into an end-to-end solutions platform. The issue also includes content …

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Imec has demonstrated full majority gate operation based on spin-wave interference in scaled devices. Circuit-level benchmarking recommends majority gates based on spin-waves for ultralow power applications. Imec also demonstrated the first logic gate implementation based on magnetic domain wall propagation. Fully integrated logic devices were fabricated on 300mm wafers using CMOS compatible processes. PThese breakthroughs …

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Qualcomm’s initial 5G processor is Snapdragon 855. Samsung says it will use the chip in its 5G phones launching next year. Apple, according to Bloomberg, is not planning a 5G phone launch until 2020. The Snapdragon 855 will have face recognition, fingerprint recognition through the screen and object recognition. The 855 is made on TSMC’s …

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Renesas has introduced the industry’s first USB-C buck-boost battery charger to support both Narrow Voltage Direct Charging (NVDC) and Hybrid Power Buck-Boost (HPBB) charging for notebooks, ultrabooks, tablets, and power banks using the reversible USB Type-C connector cable. Through firmware control, the ISL9241 can switch between NVDC and HPBB modes, providing a low-cost and small …

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Wirepas Mesh on Nordic SoCs delivers an industry-leading Key Performance Indicator when it comes to density. Wirepas  has been able to run a mesh network of 1500 battery-operated nRF52832 radios in a cubic meter without a single packet collision. The capability to run extremely dense networks is a result of the fully de-centralized network topology, …

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Despite dumping LEDs and bulbs, the venerable Dutch giant doubles its capacity in modern light sources — VCSELs, that is.

You can now expose clients to 1+1 redundant HLS channels when using AWS Elemental MediaLive. MediaLive provides two encoding pipelines to create a redundant channel. When using an origin service like AWS Elemental MediaStore , both pipelines can be referenced by one top-level HLS manifest for a single, highly available endpoint for your live channel.

Customers can now get Amazon S3 Inventory reports in Apache Parquet file format. Amazon S3 Inventory provides flat file lists of objects and selected metadata for your bucket or shared prefixes. You can use S3 Inventory to list, audit, and report on the status of your objects, or to simplify and speed up business workflows and big data jobs.  

We are excited to announce the addition of 15 free, new, individually available digital courses to our online training portfolio. Launched at AWS re:Invent 2018, these 10-minute video courses introduce services for machine learning (ML), satellite communications , global services , medical data analytics , and more. These 15 courses are also grouped together in a free new digital curriculum called AWS re:Invent 2018 New Services .