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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 …

GPUs Develop Strongly in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has just released in annual review of GPU developments for 2017. The report is available free to subscribers to Jon Peddie’s TechWatch, or costs $100 to others. In spite of …

Toshiba and Western Digital Agree on Memory

by Bob Raikes

Toshiba has settled its dispute with Western Digital over the sale of the Toshiba memory business and the companies will withdraw their lawsuits and this led to a small rise in Toshiba’s share price. …

Next SnapDragon Supports UltraHD Premium and WiGig

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has released the next Snapdragon chip, the 845 that will be used in flagship phones in 2018, including the Samsung S9 family. The chip is said to be able to support up to …

Crossbar Switch for USB Type-C is Up for Award

by Bob Raikes

Diodes Inc has been shortlisted for an award for the PI3USB31532 USB 3.1 Gen 2/DisplayPort 1.4 Crossbar Switch for USB Type-C. The company, which is in the running for an Ace award, claims to …

Renesas Brings 3D To Entry Level Cars

by Bob Raikes

Renesas has announced the R-Car 3D chip which is designed to support 3D graphics in car dashboards at a system cost that is said to be at the same level as 2D. It is …

RSCrypto Now Supports Mstar chips

by Bob Raikes

RSCrypto of Chengdu, China, a maker of Conditional Access Security (CAS) said that it is now supporting SMI’s key derivation architecture on MStar K1, K5, K7 series chips. The company believes that key derivation …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 44

You Gotta Have Soft Eyes….

by Bob Raikes

Two of the most interesting stories this week are about semiconductors as Intel crosses the rubicon by agreeing a deal to buy GPUs from AMD to integrate with its CPUs. Broadcom is trying to …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Veeco and Allos Can Make 200mm GaN-on-Si Wafers for microLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Equipment maker, Veeco, along with Allos Semiconductor, has completed a micro-LED project to make blue and green microLEDs on GaN-on-Si wafers. Veeco has used technology from Allos in its Propel single wafer MOCVD system. …

MGA Entertainment Files Lawsuit Against Intel Corp.

by Andrew Fenn

Toymaker MGA Entertainment has filed a lawsuit in New York State court against Intel Corp, Law360 reports. MGA has accused Intel of encouraging the company to use one of its chips—that has since been …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 40| Wearables

Samsung Completes Qualification of 8nm LPP Process

by Bob Raikes

Samsung said that it has now fully qualified its 8-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, called 8LPP (Low Power Plus), three months ahead of its plan. The process is said to have 10% lower power …

Soitec Makes LED Breakthrough

by Bob Raikes

One of the challenges of making LEDs and, in particular, microLEDs, is to keep them consistent, even though the structures of red, green and blue LEDs are usually different, with blue based on Indium …