As agentic AI gains traction, chipmakers like MediaTek are building for a future where devices anticipate and execute complex tasks autonomously
This week, MediaTek announced the Dimensity 9400+, the latest addition to its flagship Dimensity chipset family. Designed for next-gen Android devices, the system on...
A couple of interesting press notes about energy harvesting in IoT modules during the past week, all originating in the Low Countries; Dutch firm Nowi, a key supplier of energy harvesting circuits, has said Chinese IoT chip design company Telink Semiconductor is using its...
Nordic Semiconductor has announced it is to acquire US firm Mobile Semiconductor, a specialist in embedded memory technology for microcontrollers (MCUs) and systems-on-chip (SoCs). Mobile Semiconductor already supplies static RAM (SRAM) memory-hardware in all of Nordic’s wireless IoT devices including its nRF52 and nRF53...
California-based healthcare tech company Movano claims to have completed functional testing of the “smallest ever” mmWave sensor for non-invasive glucose and blood pressure monitoring. The firm said it has designed the new sensor from the scratch, as a proprietary wireless system on chip (SoC)...
A hybrid version of the ST8500 system-on-chip (SoC) from Switzerland-headquartered STMicroelectronics has been certified for both power-line and wireless communications. It is the first chipset to receive the new ‘hybrid’ G3-PLC power-line and wireless certificate, published in March, from the G3-PLC Alliance for smart-grid,...
Intel plans to invest about $20 billion to build two new fab facilities in Arizona, bolstering U.S. jobs and the domestic semiconductor supply.
Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, discussed the fab investments and Intel's strategy in an online financial and business update on the company. He...
4G to remain a focus area for regions like India
Qualcomm's three new mobile platforms, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G, 662 and 460, will, according to the company, enable enhanced user experiences, support Dual-Frequency (L1 and L5) GNSS to improve location positioning accuracy and robustness, and...
Snow Ridge SoC designed for combo of edge computing and 5G
Taking advantage of the massive throughput and low latency of 5G requires a new approach to building telecom networks. Often described as born in the cloud, 5G will require not just workload support associated...
Qualcomm SVP discusses SoC development cycle, maintaining competitive advantage
Earlier this month, Qualcomm detailed its new premium-tier mobile SoC, the Snapdragon 855, which will power numerous Android smartphone launches throughout 2019. In a conversation with RCR Wireless News during the company's Snapdragon Tech Summit in...
The sense to design and build a custom system-on-chip (SoC) is plain, we understand from an earlier companion piece. As we also understand, from the first part of this post, the process of IoT chip design is logical, much like constructing a printed circuit...
In a serious-minded classroom setting at Electronica 2018 earlier this month, up in the gods at Munich Messe, UK-based chip design company Arm presented to a handful of enthusiasts about the virtues of custom (system-on) chips for industrial IoT products.
Enterprise IoT Insights was among...
Snapdragon 675 designed to bring premium features to mid-tier smartphones
The premium smartphones of 2015 are now the mid-range smartphones of 2018, Qualcomm SVP and GM of Mobile Alex Katouzian told attendees of the 4G/5G Summit last week in Hong Kong. "The flagship devices, the...
7 nm Kirin 980 5G-ready with support for 1.4 Gbps
As operators work with infrastructure vendors to deploy 5G with commercial activations slated to start in the U.S. later this year, chip makers are working to cement device-side support. The latest entry comes from Huawei...
Is new 5G SoC a first look at Snapdragon 855?
As it continues to drive device support for 5G, Qualcomm this week announced it is sampling its next-generation 5G SoC to OEMs. While the San Diego company didn't name the 7-nanometer system on a chip,...
For full system SoC verification, hardware emulation has sufficient execution speed, visibility and ease-of-use to span the entire range of verification needs throughout the life of the design development process.
IBM announces new system-on-a-chip
IBM introduced what it claims to be the world’s smallest computer for blockchain technology at IBM Think 2018, according to a report by Mashable.
The miniature computer IBM premiered is a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) reportedly “smaller than a grain of salt.” The chip...
Intel announces new Xeon chips
Intel recently premiered a new chip dubbed the Xeon D-2100 processor made for edge computing workloads.
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a way of extending cloud computing capabilities to customer devices that require low-latency and high-bandwidth. It has been heralded as...
