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Nvidia has overtaken Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company

Nvidia, at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom, has now claimed the title of the world's most valuable company, displacing Microsoft from the top spot.

Nvidia's market capitalization reached $3.335 trillion on Tuesday, with its stock rising 3.5% to $135.58.

Just days ago, the company based in Santa Clara, California, surpassed Apple to become the second most valuable company globally.

Microsoft and Apple saw their stocks decline by 0.45% and 1.1%…

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Added by xiaomo on June 19, 2024 at 11:30am — No Comments

Infineon Technologies Launches PSoC™ 4 HVPA-144K Microcontroller for Automotive Battery Management Systems

On June 11, Infineon Technologies AG launched the PSoCTM 4 High Voltage Precision Analog (HVPA)-144K microcontroller, which meets the needs of the automotive battery management industry by integrating high-precision analog and high-voltage subsystems on a single chip. It provides a fully integrated embedded system for monitoring and managing automotive 12 V lead-acid batteries, which is very important for the 12 V power supply of the automotive electrical system. The PSoC™ 4 HVPA-144K… Continue

Added by xiaomo on June 11, 2024 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Qorvo Launches Industry's Best High-Gain 5G mMIMO Pre-Driver

Qorvo®, a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, recently announced the launch of the industry's best high-gain 5G pre-driver, the QPA9822. The product can achieve a high gain of 39dB at 3.5GHz and a peak power of +29dBm. This new pre-driver for mMIMO base stations demonstrates Qorvo's firm commitment to promoting the development of 5G technology and further consolidates its leadership in cellular infrastructure.

As a wideband, high-gain, high-linearity driver…

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Added by xiaomo on May 30, 2024 at 11:41am — No Comments

Yole: The optical transceiver market is expected to reach US$22.4 billion in 2029

The outlook for the optical module market is bleak due to reduced data center demand and capital expenditure constraints. However, starting in March 2023, demand for 800G modules surged, driven by hyperscale customers such as Google, Amazon, and Nvidia, resulting in a significant increase in orders and shipments. Microsoft and Meta also increased demand for 400G modules in the second half of 2023, reflecting the expanding AI-driven market. Suppliers are preparing for this growth by increasing… Continue

Added by xiaomo on May 28, 2024 at 12:05pm — No Comments

How Smart Chips Enhance Engineer Productivity

The semiconductor industry is characterized by relentless innovation, stringent quality standards, cost efficiency, and rapid market delivery. However, it also faces numerous challenges, including increasing design complexity, shrinking feature sizes, rising defect rates, and a growing demand for new materials and products. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in overcoming these obstacles and enhancing engineers' productivity in chip manufacturing.

AI significantly…

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Added by xiaomo on May 22, 2024 at 11:41am — No Comments

Texas Instruments collaborates with Nullmax to launch intelligent driving solutions

During the 2024 (18th) Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, the Nullmax MaxDrive intelligent driving solution, powered by Texas Instruments (TI) AM62A chip based on Arm® and TDA4 processor, made its debut. This collaboration between Texas Instruments and Nullmax in the automotive intelligence field integrates Texas Instruments' advanced processing technology with Nullmax's perception algorithms, aiming to drive innovation in forward vision integration and parking integration technology,… Continue

Added by xiaomo on May 7, 2024 at 11:43am — No Comments

U.S. Chip Exports Plummet by 14%

According to reports, in order to maintain America's leading position in semiconductors, the United States needs robust trade policies to complement domestic efforts to accelerate development. This was the main message of public comments submitted by the SIA on April 22 in response to the U.S. Trade Representative's request for information on how trade policies can enhance U.S. supply chain resilience.

President Biden signed into law the bipartisan Chips and Science Act in 2022 to…

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Added by xiaomo on May 6, 2024 at 10:52am — No Comments

NVIDIA Collaborates with Japan to Develop Cutting-Edge ABCI-Q Quantum Supercomputer

With the assistance of NVIDIA's artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure, Japan is making rapid strides in the fields of quantum and artificial intelligence computing. According to Nikkei Asia, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Japan is constructing a quantum supercomputer with the aim of achieving remarkable achievements in this specialized domain.

Dubbed as ABCI-Q, this new project will be powered entirely by…

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Added by xiaomo on April 23, 2024 at 11:51am — No Comments

The U.S. Department of Commerce states that Huawei chips are not the latest technology

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo said on Sunday that the chips powering Huawei's Mate 60 Pro phone, from the sanctioned Chinese company, are not as advanced as American chips. This indicates that the U.S. policy of export restrictions on telecom equipment giants is effective.

Huawei has been on a trade restrictions list since 2019, and last August released a new phone powered by sophisticated chips, surprising both the industry and the U.S. government. The Huawei Mate 60 Pro…

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Added by xiaomo on April 22, 2024 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Boston Dynamics announces it will stop developing humanoid robot Atlas

While the concept of humanoid robots is gaining popularity around the world and major technology giants are entering the market, industry leader Boston Dynamics has announced that it will stop developing the humanoid robot Atlas. After the news was released, it aroused great concern among industry insiders.

On Tuesday local time, Boston Dynamics released a video on YouTube. What is different from the past is that this video is not to show Atlas’s shocking athletic capabilities and…

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Added by xiaomo on April 18, 2024 at 11:57am — No Comments

TSMC begins trial production of 2nm chips for Apple and Nvidia

According to foreign media reports, the global foundry leader TSMC has not only started to develop a 2-nanometer process, widening the gap with competitors, but also recently began to prepare for trial production of 2-nanometer products for Apple and NVIDIA. In addition, in order to further develop the 2nm process technology, TSMC will send about 1,000 R&D personnel to work in the Fab 20 fab, which is currently under construction.

According to the Patently apple report, Samsung…

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Added by xiaomo on June 20, 2023 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Samsung Electronics will develop 4F2 DRAM storage unit

With the slowdown of Moore's law, the DRAM process has also entered the technical bottleneck period, and the expansion speed of DRAM has slowed significantly. Therefore, 3D DRAM has become a new path for storage manufacturers to break through the higher limit of DRAM technology. Recently, according to Korean media The ELEC, Samsung Electronics has formed a development team in its semiconductor research center to mass produce 4F2 DRAM. The goal of the development team is to apply the 4F2 DRAM…

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Added by xiaomo on June 8, 2023 at 12:22pm — No Comments

Intel and Samsung are turning their attention to embedded MRAM technology

Last week, at the 64th International Conference on Electronic Devices (IEDM), the world's two major semiconductor giants demonstrated new technologies for embedded MRAM in the logic chip manufacturing process.

First, let's take a look at MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory), which is a non-volatile magnetic random access memory. It has high-speed read and write capability of static random access memory (SRAM), as well as high integration of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), and can…

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Added by xiaomo on December 11, 2018 at 12:44pm — No Comments

High performance 2mm pitch industrial connector withstands heavy vibration and shock

Harwin's new M225 connector series withstands up to 6 hours of 10G vibration for a wide range of industrial applications.

These compact, high-performance wire-to-board connectors feature a fiberglass reinforced polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) housing that provides a rugged construction and long life with a minimum insulation resistance of 100 MΩ for permanent signal integrity. The new product features a 2mm pitch dual row contact set that allows the through-board PCB male connector to be…

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Added by xiaomo on October 24, 2018 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Intel invests another $1 billion to increase 14nm capacity

Intel is increasing every year in the investment in semiconductor process technology. Recently, it is reported that Intel will invest an additional $1 billion to increase its 14nm capacity.

As we all know, Intel is currently one of the few companies that can independently develop, produce, and manufacture semiconductor chips. In the past few years, Intel's process technology has remained at the 14nm node. Although the speed of moving to the 10nm process is somewhat slow, Intel's…

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Added by xiaomo on October 8, 2018 at 11:47am — No Comments

NXP acquires OmniPHY to accelerate the development of autonomous driving and in-vehicle networks

NXP Semiconductors, the world's largest automotive electronics and artificial intelligence IoT chip company, announced the acquisition of OmniPHY, a provider of automotive Ethernet subsystem technology. OmniPHY's expertise includes automotive Ethernet, a technology that enables fast data transfer for automated driving. By combining OmniPHY's advanced high-speed transmission technology with NXP's leading product portfolio and extensive experience in the automotive network, NXP will be the leader… Continue

Added by xiaomo on September 11, 2018 at 12:26pm — No Comments

IC Insights: Future MEMS sensor market prices tend to stabilize

A recent report by IC Insights predicts that the global sensor market will reach $9.3 billion in 2018, with MEMS sensor sales accounting for 73%. At the same time, in terms of shipments, MEMS sensors accounted for approximately 47% of total global shipments.

It is worth noting that sales of MEMS sensors have been growing steadily over the past few years. Data show that in 2016, MEMS sensor sales were $5.2 billion; in 2017, it increased by 17% to $6.1 billion; IC Insights expects MEMS…

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Added by xiaomo on September 6, 2018 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Conspired co-founder: China will replace the US leading chip market

British media said that the co-founder of the UK's former largest listed technology company, Anmou Technology, said that China can easily defeat the United States and control the global semiconductor market.

According to the British "Daily Telegraph" reported on August 19, Hermann Hauser is a pioneer in the field of Cambridge chip design. He founded the company Acone, the parent company of the company, and in the 1990s. Planning the divestiture of the company, he told the Daily…

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Added by xiaomo on August 23, 2018 at 1:55pm — No Comments

High isolation IGBT DC module details

In industrial applications, electronic equipment will face a complex electromagnetic interference environment, electromagnetic interference will affect the stability of electronic components, and in serious cases, the system will crash. This article will introduce you to the high isolation IGBT DC module from Murata to provide you with the component choices when designing high isolation power supplies.

Murata has introduced a series of high-isolation…

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Added by xiaomo on August 7, 2018 at 1:24pm — No Comments

SEMI: tariffs on semiconductor products imported from China should be cancelled

China and the United States have an annual trade volume of more than 500 billion US dollars and are highly complementary. However, in 2018, trade wars broke out between the two sides. US President Trump announced a 25% tariff on 50 billion US dollars of goods imported from China. In addition to the $100 billion in commodity taxation preparations, China immediately announced a counterattack and imposed a 25% tariff on US products. No one is a winner in the Sino-US tariff war, but only hurt each… Continue

Added by xiaomo on August 2, 2018 at 12:50pm — No Comments

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