64.3 million PCs were sold in Q2 – 5.2% down from Q2 2015, says Gartner and the seventh consecutive quarterly decline. “All regions except North America experienced a PC shipment decline,” says Gartner’s Mikako Kitagawa, “PC shipments in Latin America are expected to fall below five million units for the second quarter of 2016, which …
Cypress up for sale
Cypress Semiconductor is reported to be up for sale after Goldman Sachs was retained to look for a buyer. Earlier this year founding CEO T.J Rodgers (pictured) announced he was retiring. It is said Cypress has ‘received takeover interest’ from three private equity firms including Summitview Capital and TPG Capital, Summitview is said to have …
Cellular IC market to grow 6.7% CAGR 2015-19
The increasing value of the average IC content in cellular handsets and the increasing percentage of smartphones will help drive the cellphone IC market to $94.3 billion in 2019, says IC Insights. Although the cellular handset IC market grew by double digits in 2013 and 2014 it grew only 2% in 2015 and is expected …
Leti 3D on-chip network uses active interposer
French semiconductor research lab has developed a 3D network-on-chip (3D-NoC) for fast computing. It is intended to be used to transfer data between stacked die, or across an array of die on a silicon interposer. “The steady rise in the number of applications that require high-performance computing creates a demand for new hardware-plus-software communications solutions …
Making IoT work for us – IoT Design programme announced
Interested in learning more about the IoT? Be sure to make a date in your diary for our IoT Design conference, which is running in London on Thursday 15 September.
The Shining Star Which Crashed
Icera was a shining start-up star. “We started off with a passion to be a big European-based chip company, a company which could go public, a company that was sustainable,” said its CEO Stan Boland inn 2006 when the company was three years old, “the biggest and most challenging chip market is wireless. Particularly cellular. …
Augmented reality software could make smart lights even smarter (UPDATED)
The same technology behind the Pokémon Go craze has a future in LED lighting.
Evoqua to provide water system for Holland, MI energy park
Evoqua was selected to support this project with a boiler feedwater make-up system.
Citizen-science water-quality monitoring in Delaware River Basin gets $2.5M boost
Volunteers to monitor threats to water for 15 million people.
Blackmail
5G is hovering on the doorstep. There will be one 5G capable city in every EU country by 2020, say the operators. But what will EU 5G be like? 16 years after the 3G auction most people are relieved to get a 3G signal. As for 4G, to call it elusive would be flattering it. …