RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture, is being increasingly adopted by numerous companies, with some industry insiders considering it a strong competitor to ARM.Recently, Samsung has joined the ranks of giants supporting RISC-V.At the RISC-V summit held in Silicon Valley on the 10th, Samsung announced that RISC-V will be used first in its 5G millimeter-wave … Read more
In March, as the temperature gradually warms up, inquiries in the chip market seem to have slightly increased, although there is no obvious recovery yet. This month, the demand for MCUs appears to have eased, the popularity of 8-bit, 32-bit, and even 16-bit MCUs has started to rise. Additionally, benefiting from the growth in AI … Read more
Mobile CPU Main Control Chip Manufacturers: Qualcomm, MTK, Spreadtrum, Huawei HiSilicon, Apple, Samsung, etc. Set-Top Box Main Control Chip Manufacturers: ST, Broadcom, NXP, NEC, HiSilicon, Fujitsu, Amlogic, Sigma Designs, CSM, Mstar, Guoxin, LSI, Cypress, ALi, etc. OTT Set-Top Box (Network Player) Main Control Chip Manufacturers: Amlogic, Rockchip, Allwinner, HiSilicon, Actions, Mstar, Realtek, MTK, Intel, etc. … Read more
Recently, I have seen an increasing amount of technical content about the ESP32. I have also written many articles about the ESP32. Compared to domestic developers, “of course, many domestic developers spend their time working overtime and do not have much time to deal with these“, many tech enthusiasts abroad love to use the ESP32 … Read more
1. Arm’s Ongoing Challenges? 2. Arm: CEO Wu Xiongang refuses to resign and attempts to prevent Chinese chip companies from communicating with and supporting Arm’s technology; 3. Reuters: U.S. Commerce Department officials join MediaTek’s lobbying efforts; 4. Haige Communications signs a 255 million yuan order contract with special institutional clients, involving Beidou navigation products and … Read more
The new era of automobiles is coming. As a core element of automotive innovation, what is the market outlook for semiconductors? KPMG’s industry report published at the end of the year predicted: “As automation and electrification double the demand for in-vehicle electronic products, the automotive semiconductor market will quadruple, reaching more than $200 billion in … Read more
Every semiconductor company has one or two star products during its development. These products help the company gain fame and establish a solid position in the semiconductor market. In the history of Maxim Integrated, there is such a star product that helped the company achieve profitability in its first year and successfully IPO in 1988! … Read more
According to reports from Electronic Enthusiasts Network (by Zhou Kaiyang), there have been numerous reports claiming that Nvidia’s exclusive acquisition negotiations for Arm have entered the final stages, with related parties stating that the transaction could be completed as early as late summer this year. As an architecture that supplies billions of chips to the … Read more
Since its official establishment in 1990, ARM has continuously made breakthroughs in the field of 32-bit RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer CPU) development, evolving its architecture from V3 to V7. As ARM has always sold intellectual property (IP) to major semiconductor manufacturers without engaging in chip production and sales itself, and due to the significant … Read more