April 25, 2024 — Texas Instruments recently said that the company’s second-quarter sales are expected to be as high as $3.95 billion, exceeding analysts’ expectations of $3.78 billion. Texas Instruments optimistically predicts that improving demand for consumer electronics products indicates that analog chip inventory adjustments may be easing, and that the decline in demand for […]
April 25, 2024 — SK hynix Inc. announced today that it plans to expand production capacity of the next-generation DRAM including HBM, a core component of the AI infrastructure, in response to the rapidly increasing demand for AI semiconductors. As the board of directors approves the plan, the company will build the M15X fab in […]
Valerie started her career with British Telecom and worked in the UK and overseas on a telecoms-related projects, including coding the first text message. She also contributed to the creation of the first blood glucose monitor. Judges were impressed with her career and embedded computing expertise, and R&D in electronic product development and ambient computing. […]
Q1 free cash was $134 million after Net Capex of $967 million For Q2, net revenues of $3.2 billion and gross margin of 40% are expected. For the full year, revenues of $14-15 billion are expected, down from a previous expectation of $15.9 billion to $16.9 billion. “Q1 net revenues and gross margin both came […]
The fab, at Cheongju in Korea’s North Chungcheong Province, will cost $14.6 billion – $3.8 billion for the shell and $10.8 billion for the equipment. The fab is planned to run 100k wpm and to be in production by the end of November 2025. The accelerated timescale is because excavation for the original NAND project […]
According to IDC, PC shipments in 1Q 2024 were up 1.5% from 1Q 2023, the first positive year-to-year change since 4Q 2021. Smartphone year-to-year growth turned positive in 4Q 2023 at 8.5%. The growth continued in 1Q 2024 at 7.8%. 4Q 2023 was the first positive year-to-year smartphone change since 2Q 2021. Despite the positive […]
Space-based PNT technologies are a critical part of national infrastructure and underpin our everyday lives from communications and transport systems to computer networks. However, there is a now-recognised need for increased robustness of future PNT systems to maintain and improve timing accuracies over extended periods of time where continuous synchronisation to clock signals from global […]
The agency’s International Bilateral Fund is being used for Phase 2 backing of a range of companies and organisations – from the Alan Turing Institute using Artificial Intelligence to improve space operations to XCAM working on an X-ray imaging instrument to study emissions from Earth’s aurorae, aka the northern (or southern) lights. “The UK is […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australia’s top spy on Wednesday urged greater cooperation from the big tech companies, asking them to break a long-held industry taboo by providing access to encrypted messages. Intelligence chief Mike Burgess said encrypted messaging had compromised the ability to root out threats, and said tech companies had a duty to break […]