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Cypress USB-C Power Delivery Controller Qualified for Thunderbolt 3 Designs

by Bob Raikes

Cypress Semiconductor Corp has announced that its EZ-PD CCG5 two port USB-C controller with Power Delivery (PD) has been qualified by Intel for use in Thunderbolt 3 systems. Reference designs are now available to …

Qualcomm Adds Another Option for Windows

by Bob Raikes

During the Computex show, Qualcomm announced with Samsung the Snapdragon 850 ‘mobile compute platform’ which includes the Snapdragon X20 improved modem and an AI engine. The chip is intended for use in Qualcomm-based Windows …

Analogix 10Gbps USB-C Re-Timers Ship

by Bob Raikes

Analogix Semiconductor Inc announced at Computex its ANX74xx family of USB-C re-timer solutions for notebooks, 2-in-1 convertible laptops, desktop PCs, monitors, and USB-C accessories. The company said that the chip is the first USB-C …

ARM VPU Mali-V76 Has 8K Support

by Milos Pavlovic

Arm has announced new CPU, a GPU and a VPU design for video processing. The Cortex A-76 is claimed to be 35% faster and 40% more power efficient than last year’s designs and the …

MagnaChip Moves to Third Generation of DDIC Chips

by Bob Raikes

MagnaChip has a new ‘third generation’ 40 nm OLED display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) that is already said to have won a design from a ‘leading smartphone player’. The chip supports 21:9 displays and …

Apple to Ditch Intel CPUs?

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg has reported that Apple plans to move away from using Intel chips in its Mac product line and move to its own chips, based on the Arm architecture and currently used in Apple’s …

Samsung Exynos 7 Series 9610 Improves Image Processing

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Electronics announced its latest application processor (AP), the Exynos 7 Series 9610, which is built on Samsung’s 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process to allow processing including FullHD video recording at 480fps. Vision and image …

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Xilinx Unveils ACAP Programmable SoC

by Bob Raikes

Xilinx, Inc. announced a new product category that it calls “adaptive compute acceleration platform” (ACAP) that is is claimed to go ‘far beyond’ the capabilities of an FPGA, it’s traditional product category. The firm …

Intel Fixes Thunderbolt 3/USB-C Compatibility

by Bob Raikes

We were a bit late to spot it, but in January (probably during the CES overload!), Intel released new ‘Titan Ridge’ Thunderbolt Controllers that add DisplayPort 1.4 and USB-C Host compatibility. The new controllers …

Amphion Releases Video Decoder Core for HEVC and VP9

by Andrew Fenn

Amphion Semiconductor, a video codec silicon IP provider, has announced the release of the latest version of its Malone video decoder IP core. Architectural optimisations have enabled the company to realise further reductions in …

Samsung Exynos 9 Series 9810 for AI and UHD at 120FPS

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has announced its latest application processor, the Exynos 9 Series 9810 and which is built on Samsung’s second-generation 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process. The architecture is eight core and four of the cores can …

Chinese Fabless Semi Cos Growing Well

by Bob Raikes

Taiwan analyst, TrendForce said that the IC design industry in China would achieve revenues of RMB 200.6 billion in 2017 ($30.3 billion), a yearly growth of 22% and 2018 is expected to see 20% …