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The EC will not appeal against the EU General Court’s  decision to quash an antitrust fine of €997 million imposed on Qualcomm, reports Reuters. The EC had alleged that Qualcomm paid Apple to exclusively use its cellular chip-sets. In June, the General Court stated: “A number of procedural irregularities affected Qualcomm’s rights of defence and invalidate the Commission’s analysis of ...

Flosfia, a Japanese spin-off from Kyoto University, backed by Mitsubishi, Denso and the Development Bank of Japan, is about to move into mass production of gallium oxide-based PMICs, reports the Nikkei. Flosfia claims these gallium oxide devices reduce  power loss by 70% compared with current devices, and can reduce EV power consumption by 10%. Flosfia is looking to use Japanese ...

The AR device market has so far been dominated by enterprise devices, says Strategy Analytics, has yet to reach the mainstream consumer market. But there are encouraging signs – the consumer AR device market tripled from 2020-21 with Nreal. taking an early lead  with a 75% share of consumer AR shipments in 2021. “Consumer shipments grew 161% YoY from 2020 to ...

Italy looks like following the example of Germany and paying 40% of the cost of an Intel plant. Germany is paying Intel $7.3 billion towards the $19 billion cost of a fab-site at Magdeburg. According to Reuters the plan to build the $5 billion Intel packaging plant in Italy is set to be completed by the end of this month. ...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor will create ‘unique events and experiences’ for Manchester United fans, according to Man U. This will come as a result of a global partnership between the club and the company. Victoria Timpson, CEO for Alliances and Partnerships at the club says:  “Snapdragon platforms will enable ground-breaking experiences for fans across the globe.” Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire says:,“We look ...

Airports have had exceptionally long queues this summer, with Heathrow seeing luggage pile ups and even telling its airlines to stop selling summer flights. Some airports have been worse than others, according to FlightAware data. Canada’s Toronto Pearson International Airport topped the list as the worst airport to fly out of between May 26 – July 19 this year, with ...

3DGaN innovators Finwave Semiconductor today announced a $12.2 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Fine Structure Ventures with additional participation from Citta Capital, Soitec, Safar Partners and Alumni Ventures. The Series A follows an award of $4.3 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) SCALEUP (Seeding Critical Advances for ...

Micron is shipping  232-layer TLC NAND flash  fabbed in Singapore The device delivers I/O speed 2.4GB/s and the chip has a density of 14.6 Gb/mm2. The chip can store 1Tb which allows 2TB chip packages by stacking 16  232-layer dies. Micron has shrunk its packaging and a single chip package measures 11.5mm x 13.5mm (~155mm2).          

Samsung has asked for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas – two in Austin and nine in Taylor – which would involve a total outlay of about $200 billion. “We currently do not have specific plans to build at this time,” says Samsung, “ however, the Chapter 313 applications to the State of Texas are part of a long-term ...