Samsung’s Q1 semiconductor profit fell 64% to $3.52 billion while the whole company had a profit of $5.4 billion on sales which fell 13.5% to $45 billion. The phone business took a 40% drop in operating income for a $2 billion profit Displays made a $480 million loss. Samsung has been driving down memory prices to deplete inventories but says ...

IQD has launched a range of ultra-low frequency stability HCMOS based clock oscillators. The IQXO-923 series is available with a frequency stability of only ±5ppm over the full industrial operating temperature range of -40 to 85 degrees C. Available in either a voltage of 1.8V (IQXO-923-18) or 3.3V (IQXO-923-33) this new clock oscillator is housed in an hermetically sealed 3.2 ...

London was the only non-US venue to be blessed (if that’s the right word) with a presentation during the Uber IPO roadshow. As everybody now knows, what was to have been a $120 billion affair is now a mere $80-90 billion affair after Lyft went public at $72 and has now hit $60 after a low of $56. Claridge’s hotel ...

Calendar Q1 revenues at Avnet were up 1.2% y-o-y at $4.7 billion with an operating margin of 3.3%. Farnell’s operating margin was 12.4% up from 10.8% in calendar Q1 2018. “I am pleased with the strong execution we demonstrated this quarter,” said Avnet CEO Bill Amelio (pictured), “we saw continued strength in our Americas and EMEA regions and solid performance ...

Semtech has announced software building blocks to ease the development of devices with LoRa wireless links – LoRa is a low data rate wireless link with a range of over 10km. They are free, supported, open-source software and specification compliant – intended to implement the common functions that all developers of end devices, gateways or applications must implement, according to ...

Q1 chip sales of $96.8 billion were down 15.5% on Q4 reports the SIA, and 13%  less than in Q1 2018. March 2019 sales were $32.3 billion, a dip of 1.8% compared to February, and 13% less than sales from March 2018. “Global semiconductor sales slowed during the first quarter of 2019, falling short of the previous quarter and Q1 of last year ...

Sainsbury’s has beaten Amazon to the punch by opening the UK’s first till-less store. In Holborn Circus, the store currently processes 82% of sales digitally. Sainsbury is now waiting to see if customers go for it before they roll out the concept nationally.   Customers use an app called SmartShop Scan, Pay & Go. Customers scan groceries, link to a ...

ARM is losing share in the IP market, says IPNest. From 47.8% market share in 2016, it slipped to 46.2% in 2017 and to 44.7% in 2018. Companies ranked by semiconductor design IP revenue in 2018 (millions of dollars). Source: IPnest (April 2019). Achronix was the fabulous success story of last year growing revenues 250% on the back of its ...

This was the headline, 58 years ago, on a piece by  the Soviet Correspondent in Electronics Weekly’s issue of January 25th 1961. The article starts: Information has become available in the last few weeks of a symposium held in Tashkent from May 10 to 20 1960 on auto-electronic emission. The conference was called by the Commission for Electron Microscopy of ...

GaN Systems is claiming a first at PCIM, with a 650V 150A GaN power transistor – further claiming: “the GS-065-150 device has 100 times lower switching losses than comparable IGBTs, that’s a 99% reduction in switching losses” Other product from the firm at PCIM will be the GS-065 low current (3.5A to 11A) transistor line that can be used with the ...