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Renesas Simplifies USB Power Authentication

by Bob Raikes

Renesas has announced a new chip that is said to be the first single package solution that supports both USB Power Delivery Rev. 3.0 (USB PD 3.0) and USB Type-C Authentication Rev 1.0, which …

Mediatek Wins Oppo & Vivo with Helio

by Bob Raikes

Taiwan and blog sources are pointing to a design win for Mediatek’s Helio P30 chips with Oppo and Vivo, both Chinese smartphone brands on the rise. (see MWC 2017 Round-up for comments on the …

Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Samsung DeX Uses Cypress Chips

by Bob Raikes

Cypress is the supplier of the main chips (four) in the Samsung DeX docking station, that is designed to turn the Samsung S8 smartphone into a PC-type docks. The company said that it has …

Qualcomm Ships Mid-Range APUs

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm introduced the 630 and 660 Snapdragon application processors which are updates on the Snapdragon 625 and 653 processors with more power, more features and better connectivity as well as addressing battery life. Performance …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Global Semiconductor Sales Rise 18.1% in Q1 of 2017

by Alan Spencer

Global sales of semiconductors reached $30.9 billion for the month of March, which is a rise 18.1% compared to the March 2016 total of $26.2 billion. The March 2017 total was also 1.6% higher …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 17

AptoVision Hardware Development Kit Now Available

by Bob Raikes

AptoVision has released the BlueRiver NT1000 Hardware Development Kit which includes a reference design receiver and transmitter; 20 security devices for prototyping; all reference design files in source format including schematics (Orcad); layout (Allegro) …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 24 - Issue 17

One Media 3.0 and Saankhya Labs partner for ATSC 3.0 Chipset

by Bob Raikes

One Media 3.0, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. announced an agreement with Saankhya Labs, a developer of Software Defined Radio (SDR) chips, to accelerate the development of ATSC 3.0 chipsets. Under …

Tags:ATSC| Chips| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 12

LG Uses Cypress USB Type-C Support Chip

by Bob Raikes

Cypress Semiconductor said that LG had used the Cypress EZ-PD CCG3 controllers to support the USB Type-C connectors in the LG Gram (LG Has New Monitors and Projectors). “With the push for USB Power …

Mediatek X30 Struggling against 835?

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes has reported that Mediatek is struggling to ramp up production of its Helios X30 AP (MWC 2017 Round-up) and that, as a result, Qualcomm is winning business for its Snapdragon 835. The site …

Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 10

MediaTek Chipset Supports Dual-camera Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

MediaTek has released the Helio P25, which uses 16nm Octa core processing and supports single or dual cameras (24 MP or dual 13 MP) with de-noise algorithms and real time shallow depth of field …

Nexell Releases AP with HEVC/VP9 Support

by Bob Raikes

Nexell of Korea has announced a new application processor, the NXP5540 that can support HEVC (H.265) encoding at UltraHD resolution and both VP9 and HEVC decoding at UltraHD at 60fps, using ip from Chips&Media. …

Synaptics Has New Driver and Fingerprint Chips

by Bob Raikes

Synaptics has a couple of new chips, including the R66452 which is a display driver for OLED smartphones and supports resolutions up to 1080 x 2160, HDR and 90Hz. The higher rate of refresh …