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The overall power semiconductor market, including both power discretes and power modules, is predicted to grow 5% in 2015 to reach $17 billion, says IHS. In 2014, y-o-y power discrete revenue grew 5% and power module revenue grew 12%. The global power module market is projected to comprise nearly one third (30 percent) of the power semiconductor market by 2019, ...

Quantenna is sampling 10G Wave 3 Wi-Fi products built on Quantenna’s True 8×8 QSR10G Wi-Fi platform with multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) technology for home wireless access points and residential gateways. Quantenna’s up-to-12-streams 10G Wave 3 can address both the service provider and retail market segments. 10G Wave 3 WiFi supports speeds up to 10Gbps attained by combining True 8×8 MIMO configuration ...

Asia-Pac will account for 58.9% of a chip market worth $295 billion this year, says IC Insights. IC Insights expects 2015 sales to split: US $68 billion, Europe $32 billion, Japan $23 billion, and ASia/Pac $174 billion for a total market of $395 billion. Asia-Pac is particularly dominant in computer and comms which will account for 74% of semi sales ...

July semiconductor sales of $28 billion were flat with June, reports the SIA. The regional split was: US $5.5 billion, Japan $2.6 billion, China $8.1 billion, Asia-Pac/All Other $8.9 billion, Europe $2.8 billion. While US sales were flat, China sales were up 6% m-o-m. “Global semiconductor sales have slowed somewhat this summer in part due to softening demand, normal market ...

Antenna specialist Antenova has designed antennas for On Board Devices (OBD) and vehicle telematics. The OBD design uses three new antennas inside an OBD housing to link to a satellite (GNSS), Bluetooth and a terrestrial network, whilst obtaining optimum performance from all three antennas simultaneously. The design also features a GNSS RF module to fix location. Antenova has used the ...

Discretes specialist Diodes of Texas is to buy Milton Keynes analogue and mixed signal company Pericom Semiconductor. The price is said to be ‘about $400m’, including the company’s cash. The combined companies will have revenues of $1bn plus. The price is about 40% more than the company’s market cap before the bid was made. “The proposed acquisition of Pericom accelerates the ...

Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony, has just given the following interview to CNBC: CNBC: A number of new products launched today, what are you most excited about? “We are really excited about a range of products that we highlighted today. We are talking about the new Xperia Z5 smart phones, series there, including the first 4K smart phone – the ...

For applications where low-level electronic signals need to be acquired and analysed, Spectrum has added a range of pre-amplifiers that can be used to boost signal levels. When combined with a Spectrum digitiser these low noise pre-amplifiers can greatly increase the measurement systems overall dynamic range and sensitivity. The pre-amps are designed to complement the built-in amplifiers of the digitiser, ...

Q2 server shipments grew 8% year-on-year, while revenue increased 7.2% from Q1 2014, says Gartner. “X86 server shipments increased 8.3% in the second quarter of 2015 and revenue grew 9%,” says Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice-president at Gartner. “RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments declined 18.7% globally for the period, while RISC/Itanium revenue declined 9.7% compared with the same quarter last year. The ...

Grupo Arcano has invested in Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQCL). Although undisclosed, the amount has been reported to be $50m by Tech City News. Established in early 2013 CQCL was founded to create tools and algorithms for the commercialisation of quantum computers. It has an operating system called ‘ t|ket> ‘ and is focusing on field including: cryptography, financial services,  medicine, ...