Insight SiP of Sophia Antipolis is behind the PCB antenna design in the latest Bluetooth module of Lapis Semi. Called MK71050-03, it uses Lapis’ MK7105 silicon whose tranciever achieves <9mA transmit and receive. “The internal pattern antenna optimised for the ML7105 was developed in collaboration with Insight SiP,” said Lapis. “The EEPROM, crystal oscillator, and antenna matching circuit required are included ...
Plessey Semiconductors will host its annual, corporate hospitality and charity ride on Thursday 3rd of September 2015, to raise funds for Prostate Cancer UK. The picture shows the Plessey cycle team. The funds raised will help to provide support and information to men and their families, fund research into the causes and treatments of the disease, and campaign to give ...
Edinburgh-based Artemis has won this year’s MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering. It won it for its Digital Displacement digitally-controlled hydraulic power system for off-shore wind turbines. “The smart modular system has been designed to overcome the significant reliability issues associated with existing turbines,” said the Academy. “The Artemis system is a massive leap forward for hydraulically powered ...
TSMC saw revenues shrink 7.5% in Q2 compared to Q1 but says it still expects 2.2% sequential growth in Q3 and double-digit growth for the full year, reports Digitimes. It expects Q3 revenues to be around $6.7billion. However it expects the overall semiconductor to grow only 3% and the foundry industry to grow 6%. “The end market recovery is not ...
Standard essential patent (SEP) holders have been reined in by a court judgement yesterday limiting their rights to take legal action against rival companies. Now, if you own standard essential patents, and you want to take out an injunction against a willing potential licensee, you could be found guilty of abusing a dominant position. The European Court of Justice, the ...
Harvard Engineering, which designs and makes electronic control gear for lighting in Yorkshire, has a new CEO. Paul Hussey joins Harvard from private equity-backed Strix – which deigns and makes safety and control devices for small domestic appliances and filtration systems – it makes the thermostats within many of the world’s kettles. Prior to Strix, Hussey held executive positions at Danaher, ...
The European Commission has opened two formal antitrust investigations into possible abusive behaviour by Qualcomm in the field of baseband chipsets used in consumer electronic devices. The first will examine whether Qualcomm has breached EU antitrust rules that prohibit the abuse of a dominant market position by offering financial incentives to customers on condition that they buy the baseband chipsets ...
Intel had Q2 revenues of $13.2 billion down 4% y-o-y for $2.7 billion net income and a gross margin of 62.5%. The PC business brought in revenues of $7.5 billion which was a 13.5% y-o-y decline, and the data centre business contributed $3.9 billion up 10% on Q2 2014 and up 5 % on Q1. 10nm production, scheduled for mid-2016, ...
Three good years for semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales are projected by SEMI. SEMI forecasts that the semiconductor equipment market will grow 7% in 2015 to reach $40.2 billion and expand another 4% in 2016 to reach $41.8 billion. Last year it grew 18%. Regionally, the spend will be: 2015 $bn. % change on 2014. 2016 $bn China. 4.66. 6.6%. 5.54 ...
Hot on the heels of the acquisition of ISSI by a Chinese private equity company, another China-based fund has bid for Micron valuing it at $23 billion. The offer of $21 a share is 19% over its pre-bid closing price. China has been reported to have ambitions to build a DRAM industry and buying Micron, the third largest DRAM company, ...
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