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Toshiba is shipping a wireless power receiver IC that will enable mobile devices to be charged wirelessly as fast as if they were connected to the charger via a cable. The TC7764WBG is compliant with Qi V.1.1.2, the wireless low power charging standard defined by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which includes a dedicated specification for smartphones and mobile accessories. ...

Rambus is going fabless. After 25 years as an IP supplier it will start selling ICs under its own name. The first products will be for communications in data centres and will be on sale by the end of the year. Data buffers are expected to be among the the first products. Rambus has had to resort to extensive and ...

Applied Materials has delivered a ‘flat to down’ forecast for calendar Q3 saying that the foundries are being cautious about spending because of high inventories. Applied reported a 10% rise in its calendar Q2 revenue and a 17% rise in orders. It saw calendar Q2 profits rise 9% to $329 million, and Q2 revenues rise to to $2.49 billion from $2.27 ...

Loss-making flash-based storage company Pure Storage has filed for an IPO. Last year the company lost $182 million on sales of $174 million. According to IDC, Pure is the second largest supplier of flash-based storage behind EMC and ahead of IBM and HP. The market for all-flash storage systems was $1.6 billion last year and will be $2.24 billion this ...

Intepro Systems has brought out electronic DC loads with an integral, grid-synchronized inverter designed to return up to 94% of the load test energy back to the grid. The rack-mounted unit has output ratings of 3.5 kW, 7 kW and 10.5 kW — scalable to 105 kW. It costs $8000 and is available on an 8-12 week lead-time. The ELR9000 ...

In Q4, Toshiba is to sample three new families of SSDs with high-speed PCIe interfaces that provide high-bandwidth point-to-point links with the processor and reduce system bottlenecks. The drives use the NVMe protocol and have been designed for various applications including high performance notebooks, thin notebooks, 2-in-1/convertible notebooks, all-in-one PCs and tablets; and server and storage applications. Each SSD family ...

Silicon Labs claims best-in-class jitter performance for its Si5348 clock IC which enables hardware designers to implement a “clock-tree-on-a-chip” solution for Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE), IEEE 1588v2 and general-purpose frequency translation for wireless and telecom infrastructure, broadband networks (e.g., G.fast DSL and PON) and data centre applications. SyncE and IEEE 1588 have become increasingly popular methods to deliver synchronization over packet ...

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during Q2 2015 compared to Q1, says the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Total silicon wafer area shipments were 2,702 million square inches during the most recent quarter, a 2.5% increase from the 2,637 million square inches shipped during the previous quarter resulting in a new quarterly volume shipment record, says SEMI’s Silicon Manufacturers” ...

Infineon has overtaken ST to become Europe’s largest chip company – Infineon’s Q2 sales were $1.762 billion while ST’s were $1.754 billion, according to IC Insights. Samsung continues to close the gap on Intel with revenues of $10.3 billion in the quarter compared with Intel’s $11.96. Top Ten Vendors Q2 2015 $bn Intel 11.946 Samsung 10.3 TSMC 6.6 Hynix 4.2 ...

Qualcomm is to buy Ikanos for $47 million to expand its broadband and modem portfolio for fixed line consumer business. It will help provide, says Qualcomm: ‘a central hub for Internet of Everything (IoE) enabled devices, services and 3G/LTE small cells.’ “Qualcomm Atheros has always viewed the home gateway as the enabler for consumers to not only access the Internet ...