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Presented by: Stephen Russell & TechInsights Power Subscription Gearing Up for the Electronic Vehicle (EV) Revolution State of the Art Power Devices The global drive towards green energy is accelerating. Ten years ago, electric vehicles (EVs) were a novelty making up less than 1% of the global

February 03, 2021 Logic Disruptive Technology Download the brief Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 in the Xiaomi Mi 11 brings a new 5 nm entrant to market With their release of the Snapdragon 888, Qualcomm finds itself in competition with other 5 nm offerings - the Apple A14 and the Exynos 2100. With the

February 02, 2021 Teardown Disruptive Technology Samsung Galaxy S21 – rival 5 nm solutions, new design wins, and LPDDR5 with 1z EUV? Right from the release announcement, it seemed the Samsung Galaxy S21 flagship phone was going to be a little bit different. First, the phone was due to be announced

February 02, 2021 Ziad Shukri A Recap of Samsung’s 108MP Image Sensors In 2019, Samsung introduced the first 108MP image sensor for mobile applications – the S5KHMX with ISOCELL Plus® technology. We first confirmed its use in the rear (wide) cam of the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro in November 2019. The S5KHMX

February 02, 2021 Sinjin Dixon-Warren TechInsights Cracks Open the STMicroelectronics MasterGaN2 TechInsights recently completed a full analysis of the STMicroelectronics MasterGaN1. We found that the device contained two identical GaN Systems dies, with 1017-W3V2P4 die markings, wired in a half

February 01, 2021 Dick James Intel Shows Early Ponte Vecchio Part Occasionally we will see something in the media that we think worth commenting on, and post as an “In Case You Missed It” (ICYMI) blog. In this case it was a Twitter post by Intel’s Raja Koduri (@rajaonthe edge) showing a complex

Supporting IP strategy in the semiconductor industry Growing complexity of the chip market has made it harder than ever for intellectual property owners to monitor developments, making reverse engineering a crucial process The breadth of reverse engineering required to innovate, protect and monetise

January 19, 2021 Image Sensor Disruptive Technology Sony d-ToF Sensor found in Apple’s new LiDAR camera Apple’s LiDAR camera was first observed in 2020’s iPad Pro; as expected, we saw that same part used in the iPhone 12 Pro in October. Industry experts expect that this part will be in use for the

January 12, 2021 John Sullivan HiSilicon’s move towards an antenna to modem solution HiSilicon provides the RF transceiver and mobile SoC for Huawei’s mobile handsets but the RF front end has traditionally been sourced from the usual front end suppliers such as Skyworks, Qorvo and Murata among

December 28, 2020 Dick James Intel Launches 2nd-Gen 3D XPoint Memory, Discusses at IEDM On Dec 16th Intel held a "Memory & Storage Moment"" where they announced five new memory and storage products; two Optane™ SSDs, one for data centers, and one aimed at PCs, and three 144-layer 3D-NAND SSDs (solid