Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five PC suppliers in Q2: Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Traditional PC Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, Q2 2024 (Preliminary results, shipments are in millions of units) Company 2Q24 Shipments 2Q24 Market Share 2Q23 Shipments 2Q23 Market Share 2Q24/2Q23 Growth 1. Lenovo 14.7 22.7% 14.2 22.5% 3.7% 2. HP Inc. 13.7 ...

£88m of joint industry and government funding has been announced for 46 vehicle-related CO2 reduction projects in the UK. Awarded through the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), £44.5m is from the government and £43.5m from the automotive industry. “Congratulations to all the companies awarded funding in this latest round of competitions facilitated by the Department for Business and Trade and industry,” ...

Vision technology developed by Unistellar for its smart telescope, brings clarity to space watching. Vivid Vision signal processing technology improves two signal processing to enhance the detection of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. At IFA Berlin, the company announced that the smart telescope decoded the colours of around 300,000 stars in the Hercules cluster and revealed the chemical composition of ...

Congatec has introduced COM Express Type 6 Compact computer-on-modules with AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 processors, offering up to 39Top/s for AI processing. The processors have up to eight Zen 4 cores, 16Top/s XDNA NPUs and AI-capable Radeon RDNA 3 graphics with up to 12 compute units, and are available with design powers from 15 to 54W (see table below). Conga-TCR8 ...

Intel has come out with all guns firing. After horrible Q3 figures it has further re-positioned its foundry unit as an independent operation which will make its US rivals like AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm less wary about using it. The US Department of Commerce has been encouraging Nvidia and AMD to get aboard Intel Foundry and is doubtless encouraging more ...

NXP is aiming at ASIL D safety approval with a vehicle battery junction box controller IC, intended to fire the pyrotechnic disconnect switch during a serious fault, as well as report faults over a serial bus. MC33777A, as it will be known, redundantly measures currents, voltages and temperatures, then deduces situations – a short circuit or a crash, for example ...

Following its three day board meeting last week, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has set out the road ahead in a letter to employees. “We plan to establish Intel Foundry as an independent subsidiary inside of Intel,” writes Gelsinger, “this governance structure will complete the process we initiated earlier this year when we separated the P&L and financial reporting for Intel ...

Intel has secured AWS as a customer for its 18A process. ‘Intel  and Amazon Web Services today announced a co-investment in custom chip designs under a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar framework covering product and wafers from Intel,” says an Intel statement, “this is a significant expansion of the two companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to help customers power virtually any workload and accelerate ...

Intelsat  says it will be the first operator in the world to offer multi-orbit solutions for all relevant business units by the first half of 2025 thanks to a new satellite terminal strategy. “Intelsat is making strategic bets on new technologies, including new investments in innovative terminal providers,” says CEO David Wajsgras, “more and more customers will come to count ...

Merck and Siemens are to develop smart manufacturing technology. Cedrik Neike, CEO Digital Industries at Siemens (pictured left) and Kai Beckmann, CEO Electronics business at Merck (pictured right)  signed an MoU which makes Siemens a preferred global supplier and strategic partner for smart manufacturing. “Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics are at the core of improving lives and creating a more ...