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Qualcomm to Sell All of Its 10-Nano APs to Samsung?

by Bob Raikes

ETNews has reported that Qualcomm has committed to supply all of its 10 nanometre production of its next Snapdragon 830 application processor to Samsung for the next (S8?) Galaxy smartphone. The paper reports that …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 39

SPIL, KYEC grabs orders for MediaTek 10nm chips

by Bob Raikes

Unconfirmed reports from Taiwan say that Mediatek’s next AP, the Helio X30, will be made by TSMC with a 10nanometre process. The chip has two ARM Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.8 GHz, four ARM …

Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| TSMC| Vol 23 - Issue 39

IBC 2016 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

ABox42 is a German STB maker that started by being more flexible than the global brands in making relatively small designs and production runs, which suits the many small cable vendors in Germany and …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Colour Critical Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Semiconductors| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Etron’s USB Type-C Controller Shipments to Increase

by Isaac Oburu

Chinese sources have indicated that shipment for Etron Technology’s USB Type-C controller solutions could have a significant increase in Q2 16 bringing total shipments to about 10 million units ths year, thanks to wide …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Sigma Designs and Telechips to co-develop UHD IP-STB SoCs

by Isaac Oburu

Sigma Designs,®, a leading provider of Smart TV platforms and IoT devices along with Telechips, a leading provider of Low Power STB and Automotive Infotainment platform, announced that they have entered into a collaboration …

Tags:Semiconductors| Sigma Designs| STBs

Toshiba Launches Video Processor for High Resolution Automotive Panels

by Milos Pavlovic

Toshiba has announced the “TC90175XBG,” a new addition to its line-up of video processors for high resolution automotive displays. Sample shipments start today, with mass production scheduled to start in the first half of …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Actions Semiconductor Launches the V100 Chipset for Personal 3D Cinema Headsets

by Isaac Oburu

Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (“Actions Semiconductor” or “the Company”), one of China’s leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive portable multimedia and mobile internet system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for portable consumer electronics, announced today that …

Tags:China| Semiconductors| SOCs

Analogix Claims First Single-Chip USB-C Switch for DisplayPort

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeAnalogix has launched a new DisplayPort chip series called the ANX7440/30 family. It is an integrated solution capable of switching DisplayPort 1.3 and 1.4 at 8.1Gbps and USB 3.1 (Gen 2) 10Gbps …

Tags:Analogix| Chips| DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| USB| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Actions Designs for Personal 3D HMDs

by Tom Allen

Actions Semiconductor, of China, has released a chipset called the V100 for personal 3D cinema headsets. It is an all-in-one chip, featuring a MIPS32 processor, an integrated video engine, display subsystem and audio engine. …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| China| Chips| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Actions Semiconductor Develops 360° Chips

by Tom Allen

Chinese fabless semiconductor company Actions Semiconductor has released two new 28nm chipsets for VR, through its subsidiary Actions Technology. The S900VR is designed as an all-in-one solution for 360° panoramic VR devices. It has …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 29