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by Bob Raikes
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) launched its quarterly report on the Visual Processing Unit (VPU) market. Capturing, and quickly processing tens of megapixels of 10 to 12-bit data at 60 to 120 frames a second, …
Tags:Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Isaac Oburu
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $339.7 billion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015 revenue of $334.8 billion, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. (see Table 1). The top 25 semiconductor vendors’ combined …
Tags:Gartner| Semiconductors
by Bob Raikes
Qualcomm held the first press event of the 2017 event, just before the ‘official’ opening event by the CTA. Keith Kressin started by saying that Qualcomm started by moving the mobile phone from analogue …
Tags:CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02
by Isaac Oburu
Worldwide semiconductor capital spending is projected to increase 2.9 percent in 2017, to $69.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. This is down from 5.1 percent growth in 2016. “The stronger growth in 2016 was …
Tags:Gartner| Semiconductor Market| Semiconductors
by Bob Raikes
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said that sales of semiconductors reached $31 billion in November, up 7.4% year on year and 2.0 up on October, the best annual growth since January 2015. The Chinese …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 01
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. …
Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 49
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 …
Tags:Chips| Display Drivers| Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Semiconductors| Synaptics| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
AMD has announced at a ‘fan event’ new high performance CPUs based on its ‘Zen’ archicture and also revealed Ryzen as the new brand for Zen-based desktop and notebook processor families. AMD also gave …
Tags:AMD| Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Yvette Raikes
MediaTek saw November turnover of NTD23.52 billion ($743 million), up 12% YoY but the lowest monthly sales in seven months. This brought revenue for the year to date to NTD254.2 billion ($8.0 billion), up …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
Mediatek announced two new ten core application processors, the Helio X23 and Helio X27. There is a boost in general performance of around 20% with operation of the Arm Cortex-A72 cores at 2.6GHz and …
Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
Texas Instruments has introduced the AM437x ‘Sitara’ processor series which can be used for a range of applications including digital signage and automation. The processors are based on Arm Cortex-A9 cores with a PowerVR …
Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 23 - Issue 47
by Bob Raikes
Mediatek plans to be one of the first companies to get to us 10nm processes for its chips and in the conference call around the Q3 results, the company said that the Helio X30 …
Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 43
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