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Fable: Monopolies
Today we are amazed that Apple takes 92% of the mobile phone industry’s profits but this scale of domination of an industry is not unprecedented. Back in the 1920s there was an industry, the lighting industry, which employed half a million people in the USA. The component on which this industry was built was the …
GSA Forum: IoT an aspiration more than a business
Predictably, the IoT was not neglected at this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, summed up the industry’s dilemma with IoT: “We haven’t yet got into whatever the IoT is going to generate,” he told the conference. Udo-Martin Gomez, CTO of Bosch Sensortec, said that Bosch has set …
GSA Forum: China lacks pre-requisite for semiconductor success
China is looking for self-sufficiency in ICs but lacks a fundamental pre-requisite for growing a chip industry. “China is not encouraging freedom of thought and that’s something you need if you want innovation,” Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, told this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. China has a $23 billion government fund …
GSA Forum: China lacks pre-requisite for semiconductor success
SEMI book-to-bill ratio strengthens
“3D NAND and advanced logic are the key drivers for investments,” says SEMI CEO, Denny McGuirk.
X-Gene 3 delivers heavy-lifting server performance
Applied Micro’s new server SoC X-Gene 3 has 32 ARMv8-compatible CPU cores in a single socket to deliver performance competitive with mainstream high-end Xeon E5/ E7 processors in a similar TDP envelope. With eight DDR4 memory channels, X‑Gene 3 beats Xeon E5 in memory bandwidth, making it suited to hyperscale workloads, such as in-memory databases, …
The Driverless Delusion
There seem to be two probable birthplaces on this planet for the driverless car – Munich and California. So confronted by the cream of the mighty German car industry in Munich this week I thought it appropriate to ask a thorny Q. Who, I asked, would pay for two pre-requisites for driverless cars: mapping the …
UWB rides again in Insight-SIP module
UWB rides again with an interesting application in time-of-flight measurement enabled by the Sofia-Antipolis RF packaging specialist, Insight-SIP, which is celebrating its 10th birthday today with a party for 100 people in the South of France. UWB is a relatively new departure for Insight-SIP which has based most of its product portfolio on Bluetooth LE …
ARM’s plumbers
ARM has bumped up its R&D budget by 42% as it pushes into markets beyond mobile. Asked what it would be spent on, ARM evp Pete Hutton told Electronics Weekly: “Networking, IoT, servers and hiring a lot of engineers – a lot is being spent on software, benchmarking – all the boring plumbing.” With Qualcomm, …
Recom’s dc-dc converters power SiC output stages
Recom has introduced two 2W dc-dc converter series designed to power SiC mosfets. “One of the challenges of driving SiC mosfets is the high frequency and high voltage at which they are switched,” said Recom. “High potentials between the control and power side of an application can wear down isolation barriers, eventually causing them to fail.” …