New Technique May Be Capable of Creating Qubits From Silicon Carbide Wafer By Arne Verheyde published January 14, 2020 This could be a scalable way of creating qubits with off-the-shelf tools.
Research: China Was the Only Market to See Pure-Play Foundry Growth in 2019 By Arne Verheyde published January 14, 2020 Pure-play foundry sales grew 6% in China last year, according to market research, making it the only region to register a sales increase.
Report: Intel CPU Shortages Still Hit Laptop Market in Q4 2019 By Arne Verheyde published January 14, 2020 Laptop vendors were reportedly still impacted by Intel's supply issues in the Q4 2019, and laptop shipments are expected to drop up to 15% in Q1 2020.
New US Autonomous Vehicle Guidelines Keep AV Standards Voluntary By Arne Verheyde published January 10, 2020 The U.S. announced a new set of guidelines for autonomous vehicles, and those guidelines were quickly criticized by safety advocates for lack of meaningful regulation.
Seagate Unveils Modular Lyve Drive Storage System By Arne Verheyde published January 10, 2020 Seagate has announced the modular Lyve Drive Storage System, a portfolio of 10 products for datasphere environments.
Intel Rolls Out Linux Media Driver for Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Elkhart Lake By Arne Verheyde published January 9, 2020 Intel released its quarterly Linux Media Driver update during the holidays. It brings support for Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake.
Qualcomm Enters Autonomous Vehicle Market with 700 TOPS Snapdragon Ride By Arne Verheyde published January 9, 2020 Qualcomm announced its end-to-end Snapdragon Ride platform that covers L1/L2 safety ADAS, L2+ convenience ADAS and L4/L5 fully autonomous driving. It also announced a Car-to-Cloud platform.
Broadcom Prepares for Wi-Fi 6E With a Series of New Chipsets By Arne Verheyde published January 9, 2020 Broadcom announced a series of chipsets for the new Wi-Fi 6E extension of 802.11ax that brings Wi-Fi to the 6GHz band.
MediaTek Announces Mid-Range 5G Dimensity 800 SoC By Arne Verheyde published January 8, 2020 MediaTek announced the 7nm Dimensity 800 SoC that features a built-in 5G modem, a 2.4 TOPS AI processing unit and an octa-core CPU with four A76 cores clocked at 2GHz.
AMD to Become TSMC’s Largest 7nm Customer In 2020: Report By Arne Verheyde published January 2, 2020 According to Apple Daily, AMD will become TSMC's largest 7nm customer in the second half of 2020, driven by a doubling in orders and Apple moving to 5nm.
Apple Renews Licensing Agreement With GPU Designer Imagination Technologies By Arne Verheyde published January 2, 2020 Apple has signed a new multi-year licensing agreement with GPU designer Imagination Technologies, who Apple sourced its GPUs from until 2017. Apple will get wider access to Imagination's IP.
Huawei’s HiSilicon Starts Shipping to External Companies By Arne Verheyde published January 2, 2020 HiSilicon has started shipping 4G communication ships to external companies, the first time it has done such a thing. For this expanded strategy, HiSilicon has formed a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Samsung Foundries’ $116 Billion Plan to Become Chip Leader By Arne Verheyde published December 29, 2019 Samsung is dropping $116 billion in a bid to become the world's leading chip producer.
TSMC to Produce 5nm ASICs for Bitmain, Canaan in 2020 By Arne Verheyde published December 29, 2019 Bitcoin mining ASIC companies Bitmain and Canaan will produce 5nm chips in 2020. Bitmain received its first test chip from TSMC in December, while Canaan will follow in the first quarter of 2020.
Comet Lake to Allegedly Feature 10 Cores With up to 5.3GHz Thermal Velocity Boost By Arne Verheyde published December 28, 2019 The Comet Lake rumors are flying
Ashraf Eassa Promoted to Intel Discrete Graphics Product Marketing Manager By Arne Verheyde published December 28, 2019 Ashraf Eassa, former Technical Marketing Strategist at Intel, has been promoted to Product Marketing Manager of discrete graphics.
Samsung to Manufacture 260 TOPS Baidu Kunlun By Arne Verheyde published December 27, 2019 Baidu enters the AI fray with its own custom silicon.
DigiTimes: Intel to Announce Advanced Thermal Module at CES By Arne Verheyde published December 27, 2019 According to DigiTimes, Intel will announce a new advanced thermal module based on liquid chambers and graphite sheets at CES. It will offer improved cooling and will be part of Project Athena.
IEEE to Develop Standard for AV Decision-Making Based on Mobileye RSS By Arne Verheyde published December 26, 2019 A formal decision-making model for autonomous vehicles preferred over black-box algorithms
IBM Invents Heavy Metal and Cobalt-Free Battery By Arne Verheyde published December 26, 2019 IBM Research recently announced it has discovered a new battery that does not use heavy metals such as cobalt.
Intel's First Discrete GPU, the DG1, Listed with 96 EUs By Arne Verheyde published December 25, 2019 A leak gives some interesting details about Intel's first discrete GPU.
USB4 Support Coming to Linux 5.6 Kernel By Arne Verheyde published December 23, 2019 Linux 5.6 will receive support for USB4, added by Intel's open-source department.
Intel Tiger Lake Engineering Sample Reportedly Hits 4.0 GHz on All Cores By Arne Verheyde published December 23, 2019 An Intel Tiger Lake Engineering Sample has reportedly hit a 4 GHz all-core turbo speed, indicating that the CPU architecture could be noticeably quicker than Ice Lake.
Intel Closes Two German Sites, 450 Employees Impacted By Arne Verheyde published December 21, 2019 Intel is closing two German sites by the end of the year, causing 450 employees to lose their job. It is a result of the modem division sale to Apple.
