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Episode 278: Amazon’s Alexa Developer News and 5G’s Next wave

Jul 23, 2020

This week’s show digs into the announcements made during Amazon’s Alexa Live event held Wednesday. We explain the Connect Kit hardware and Alexa skill upgrades and try to offer a bit of context about what it means for users and developers. After that, we move to Wyze’s ask for donations and our fears over its […]

5G handsets to Comprise 18.9% of Smartphone Production in 2020 – Semiconductor Today

Jul 23, 2020 | Semiconductor Today

5G remains a hot topic in the smartphone market this year, as smartphone brands and mobile processor manufacturers, such as Qualcomm and MediaTek, strive to expand their shares in the 5G market. According to market research firm TrendForce, the Chinese government’s 5G commercialization efforts have been particularly aggressive, leading the country’s 5G base-station deployment and […]

Advanced Packaging: OSATs, Foundries, and IDMs All Want to be In the Game – iMicronews

Jul 23, 2020 | I-Micronews

“ Once the traditional, exclusive domain of OSATs and IDMs today a paradigm shift is occurring in the assembly / packaging segment of the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain”, asserts Santosh Kumar, Principal Analyst and Director Packaging, Assembly & Substrates, Yole Korea, part of Yole Développement (Yole). “Players from different business models, including foundries, substrate/PCB suppliers, […]

The Disposable Endoscopy Show has Begun and Image Sensors are Under the Spotlight ─ iMicronews

Jul 16, 2020 | I-Micronews

The medical imaging industry has always been a place for high-end technology and innovative solutions. In its latest report “Status of Medical Imaging Equipment and Detectors 2020”, Yole Développement’s analysts estimate that the detector market for medical imaging equipment was worth $4.3B in 2019. It is forecasted to grow to $6.6B in 2025 with a Compound […]

Imec and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announce Breakthrough in AI Chip – iMicronews

Jul 10, 2020 | I-Micronews

Imec, a world research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world’s specialty foundry, announced a hardware demonstration of a new artificial intelligence chip. Based on imec’s Analog in Memory Computing (AiMC) architecture utilizing GF’s 22FDX® solution, the new chip is optimized to perform deep neural network calculations on in-memory […]

Chiplet Uptake Creates Demand for Best Practices – EE Times

Jul 09, 2020 | EE Times

Die-stitching techniques, the basic concept behind chiplets, aren’t new or necessarily propriety, but the approach could benefit from templates. The post Chiplet Uptake Creates Demand for Best Practices appeared first on EETimes.

Episode 276: Google Inches Toward a Smarter Home – IOT Podcast

Jul 09, 2020

This week Kevin and I discuss the news from Google’s smart home event, and what it means for the big players in the game, standards efforts, your television, and whether Amazon can compete without a smartphone when it comes to the smart home. From there we talk about Arm’s decision to spin out its IoT […]

How COVID-19 is Accelerating Healthcare Projects and BioMEMS Device Integration – i-Micronews

Jul 09, 2020 | I-Micronews

Each new crisis, whether economic, ecological or – as currently – health, sees emerging and accelerating development of new products adapted to the situation. Urgency creates needs and needs foster the emergence of new projects. In this article based on Yole Développement’s update of our “BioMEMS Market and Technology 2020”, we analyze the MEMS market […]

Medical Imaging: sSemiconductor Technology is a Key Enabler – iMicronews

Jun 25, 2020 | I-Micronews

“The medical imaging industry has always been a place for high-end technology and innovative solutions,” asserts Marjorie Villien, PhD. Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement (Yole). “There are many players, and many dynamics, from big companies trying to innovate in mature markets, to disruptive start-ups innovating in specific fields. At Yole, we investigate this sector for a while […]

The Pandemic Isn’t Over: Nearly 10 Million Coronavirus Cases Worldwide – NPR

Jun 25, 2020

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, started Wednesday’s coronavirus briefing on a somber note: By next week there will be a total of 10 million cases globally. A reminder, says Ghebreyesus, that the pandemic isn’t over, despite places around the world reopening. There’s been a lot of news about coronavirus spikes in states […]