Having hardware that can be programmed after manufacturing is key for factory cameras that identify rotten food on an assembly line, wireless base stations that process cellular signals or corporate servers crunching machine learning tasks. It...
Micron has been barred from selling certain memory chips in China after a preliminary ruling came down in patent infringement cases brought against it by United Microelectronics Corporation and Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit. The company called...
Dialog Semiconductor is looking to diversify its business after one of its largest customers, Apple, slashed orders for the power management chips used in the iPhone. The company, which industry analysts estimate owes more than 50 percent of its...
NXP Semiconductors, catering to customers building industrial and other embedded electronics, said that it would guarantee the supply of its microcontrollers for 15 years after the initial product announcement. The company wants to keep the...
Arm announced it would sell majority ownership of its Chinese operations, partnering with investors to establish a joint venture that could give the country’s developers targeting everything from smartphones to televisions easier access to...
Last month, Vesper Technologies raised $23 million in funding from many of the major players in voice-controlled devices. Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Bose Ventures, Synaptics and Baidu all invested in the MEMS microphone maker. Leading...
Toshiba closed the sale of its semiconductor unit to an investor group led by American investment firm Bain Capital, and followed through on plans to reinvest $3.1 billion in the business. That gives the company 40.2 percent of the voting power...
Apple is again throwing its weight around in the semiconductor industry. Dialog Semiconductor, the company's primary source for power management chips, said in a statement that Apple would introduce a second source for the main PMIC components...
