The DA14592 is Renesas’s smallest multicore BLE SoC, featuring a power-thrifty radio transceiver that drops power by more than 23% for send and receive compared with Renesas’s other BLE chips.
NeuReality, an Israeli startup, is building an offload engine for AI-application pre- and postprocessing that removes the need for a CPU in a server and works directly with an accelerator.
Edge-AI vendor BrainChip has updated its Akida event-based IP offering. Its new Akida 2 architecture, available only as IP, supports temporal networks and Transformer encoders at low power.
Intel Foundry Direct Connect was more than a symposium. It was a coming-of-age party for IFS. There is a certain symmetry here, as the prior week marked Pat Gelsinger’s third anniversary at Intel, and his third mandate for being in the foundry business was laid down soon after he joined.
Semiconductor sales were flat last week but were up 17% from this time last year. Zooming in on DRAM IC, the 13-week MA jumped a whopping 79% YoY last week. TechInsights forecasts DRAM IC sales will increase 46% to $78 billion in 2024.
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Semiconductor equipment order activity increased to 72 °F for the first time in 16 months. Most of the action is coming from the Compute, Mobile, and Memory markets as the end-market demand is recovering and inventories are getting back to balanced levels.
Semiconductor sales increased 4% last week and were up 22% from this time last year. Zooming in on Auto IC, the 13-week MA increased 8% YoY last week. TechInsights forecasts Auto IC sales will increase 10% at $46 billion in 2024.
Intel’s fifth-generation Xeon family shows solid performance improvements over the prior generation, but not enough to beat its nemesis on core count or performance.
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Semiconductor sales decreased 12% last week but were up 24% from this time last year. Zooming in on Analog & Power IC, the 13-week MA is trending lower and ended at -4% YoY last week. TechInsights forecasts Analog & Power IC sales will be flat in 2024 at $108 billion.
Order activity for semiconductor equipment increased. Memory continues to lead in the recovery. The AI semiconductor chip fever shows no sign of cooling down. This report provides key performance indicators across the semiconductor and equipment manufacturing supply chain.
Renesas’s RZ/G3S targets IoT gateway systems, dropping camera inputs, display processing, and other graphic elements while retaining basic audio support.
With the first desktop processors to integrate a dedicated AI inference engine and dramatically better graphics, AMD hopes to give PC enthusiasts a reason to upgrade.
