Finance

Infineon had calendar Q2 revenue of € 1,586 million – up 7% on calendar Q1 – for a profit of €245 million at a margin of 15.4%. Infineon expects a 1% revenue increase in calendar Q3 and a 34% increase for the full year. “Revenue, earnings and margin rose significantly in the quarter, despite an increasingly difficult business environment,” says ...

Toshiba has licensed the ARM Cortex-A53 processor, the most power-efficient ARMv8-A processor capable of seamlessly supporting 32-bit and 64-bit code. Toshiba will deploy the processor to develop ASSPs such as ApP LiteT application processors that offer well balanced power-efficiency and performance with 64-bit capability, and custom products such as FFSA (Fit Fast Structured Array) and ASIC for industrial, networking, IoT, ...

Old golf course land in Japan is to become a solar farm, according to Kyocera, which is working with partners on the conversions. The most recently announced is a 23MW power plant on an abandoned golf course in Kyoto Prefecture, which will generate an estimated 26GWh/year. “Over-development of golf properties during the real-estate boom of the 1990’s and 2000’s has ...

NXP has sold its CMOS sensor business to Austrian mixed-signal chip firm ams. NXP is currently in the middle of a merger with US chip firm Freescale Semiconductor. Earlier this summer NXP also agreed to sell its RF power business to Chinese private equity firm Jianguang Asset Management  for $1.8bn. The sale of the RF power business, which supplies RF power amplifiers ...

UltraSoC, the debug specialist, has joined with Tortuga Pacific, the specialist in expanding IP businesses, to promote  UltraSoC’s UltraDebug debug and validation technologies to SoC designers. “The Tortuga Pacific team is uniquely equipped to represent UltraSoC’s silicon debug and analytics offering to our key markets in North America, Japan and elsewhere,” says UltraSoC CEO Rupert Baines, “they bring us impeccable sales, business development and strategic credentials, allied ...

Following its Spansion merger, Cypress has reported $491 million Q2 revenue for a net profit of $53 million. Programmable Systems’ sales $202.8 million were 172% up y-o-y. Memory Products’ sales were $261.4 million up 205% y-o-y. Emerging Technologies’ sales were $7.7 million up 44% y-o-y. Data Communications’ sales were $19.1 million up 6% y- o-y. Revenues were derived from: Japan ...

ST saw Q2 net revenues improve sequentially to $1.76 billion with net profit slightly down at $35 million and operating profit of $12 million compared to $98 million in Q2 2014.

Qualcomm will sack 15% of its workforce, cut spending by $1.4 billion and consider whether to split its chip selling business QCT from its licensing business QTL.

Rohm has completed the acquisition of Irish power management IC developer Powervation for $70m. This a second acquisition for Rohm this year as it builds its power IC business on the back of its own core high voltage power semiconductor technology which includes the new “wonder technology” silicon carbide. In May,  Rohm bought Renesas’ 8-inch wafer fab in Shiga. The line will ...

The 2015 RoboCup Final has been won by a team from the University of New South Wales.