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Raspberry Pi is a Winner

by Bob Raikes

The team behind the Raspberry Pi device has been given the Royal Academy of Engineering’s MacRobert Prize at a ceremony in London. The award is the most prestigious engineering award and the device has …

Worldwide Semiconductor Sales Increase 22.6% in May

by Alan Spencer

The Semiconductor Industry Association has announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $31.9 billion for the month of May 2017, which is an increase of 22.6% compared to the May 2016 total of $26.0 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 26

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

Cellphone IC Sales Overtake Those For PC

by Yvette Raikes

Although both cellphone and PC ICs are experiencing revenue growth, thanks to higher memory prices (up 53% for DRAM and 28% for NAND flash), it is cellphones which will be the largest application in …

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

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

Infocomm ‘Heads Up’

by Bob Raikes

The news for Infocomm has started and Socionext said that it plans to demonstrate a new chip, the SC2M50 or “M50” that will encode video using the HEVC codec in UltraHD with 60 fps …

Synopsys Adds DSC to MIPI for High Resolution

by Bob Raikes

Synopsys has put VESA’s Display Stream Compression (DSC) encoder into its DesignWare DSI Host Controller, which can support displays of QuadHD or up to UltraHD in mobile and automotive applications, using the MIPI hardware …

Tags:Mipi| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 21

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 …

LG Will Adopt Snapdragon 845 Chip for G7

by Yvette Raikes

Reports from Koreas say that LG Electronics is working with Qualcomm on the development of the chip for the G7 smartphone planned for next year. Qualcomm is developing a 7nm mobile chip, currently known …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Opera TV Partners with ALi Corporation

by Alan Spencer

Opera TV and ALi Corporation have announced the integration of Opera TV’s solution into ALi Corp.’s system-on-a-chip STB. This enables STB manufacturers and pay TV operators to deliver consumers with immediate access to premium …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 20

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