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Socionext Claims First in Image Recognition

by Bob Raikes

Socionext will show a new graphics SoC, the SC1810 at the International VDI Congress ’ELIV’ (Electronics In Vehicles) event in Bonn (Germany), October 18–19th. The chip includes what the company claims is the first …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 33

Qualcomm Chips in Samsung’s QLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm said that its QCA9379 is being used in Samsung’s QLED TV product line to support dual-stream Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth. Qualcomm said that they are among the first to use the chip. The …

MStar Adopts Dolby MS12 v2 for Atmos Support

by Bob Raikes

Dolby Labs and MStar said that MStar has made a new Dolby Multistream Decoder MS12 chip that can provide TV makers with a single-package solution for decoding premium audio content worldwide — broadcast, file-based, …

Tags:Chips| Dolby Atmos| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Intel Updates the Core Range to Gen 8

by Bob Raikes

Intel released its latest chip family, the 8th generation of Intel Core processors. The new chips are claimed to have 40% more performance than the previous 7th generation chips and double the performance of …

Nvidia Becomes Third Largest Fabless Chip Maker

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia went past MediaTek to get into third place in the ranking of fabless IC design companies published by Topology Research (part of TrendForce of Taiwan). Broadcom remained top with Qualcomm just behind. Nvidia …

TSMC Gears Up FinFET Production

by Bob Raikes

The Commercial Times in China has reported that TSMC is expected to start making 12nm FinFET chips in the fourth quarter of 2017. They will be used in Xavier CPUs and Volta GPUs for …

Parade Adds DisplayPort 1.4 Mux and Demux Products with Jitter Cleaning

by Bob Raikes

DisplayPort specialist, Parade Technologies, has two two new chips that expand options for video transport demultiplexing/multiplexing and signal conditioning for Dual-Mode DisplayPort 1.4 in personal computers, workstations, and other high-resolution video device applications. The …

Sigma Adds HDR10+ Support

by Bob Raikes

Sigma Designs said that it would support the HDR10+ HDR specification in its STV7803 and STV7804. The specification is being standardised by SMPTE as ST.2094-40. Sigma said that this is the third version of …

Tags:Chips| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Sigma Designs| Vol 24 - Issue 27

Qualcomm Fingerprint Technology Works Through Display

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has developed new ultrasonic fingerprint detectors that add to the features of the previous version, the firm said. There are sensors for displays, glass and metal as well as the detection of directional …

Tags:Chips| Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 24

Allwinner Releases New HDR SoC for STBs

by Bob Raikes

Chip maker, Allwinner Technology has officially released the H6, the most advanced processor in the H-series range. The H6 is described as a high-performance, high-quality 4K HDR set-top box SoC that is for use …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 25

New Google Hire Suggests System Chip for Next Pixel

by Alan Spencer

A new hire by Google suggest that the company may be intending to develop its own chips for future versions of its Pixel phone. The new hire is an engineer named Manu Gulati who …

Valens Chipset Supports HDBaseT over IP

by Bob Raikes

It slipped by us at Infocomm, but HDBaseT inventors, Valens, has announced the VSI1000 chipset which supports the HDBaseT/IP technology that was announced at the show. (Infocomm 2017 Round up) and that allows the …

Tags:Chips| HDBaseT| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 24