Silex Insight and Medium Inc. accelerate towards 1 million ECDSA signature verifications per second on a blockchain
Silex Insight, a leading provider of security IP cores, and Medium Inc., a Korean leading provider of blockchain and enterprise security solutions, have joined forces to deliver a blockchain platform with extreme high performance that can securely process more than 1 million signature verifications per second! Medium Inc.’s high performance blockchain platform is made possible […]
Reuters reports Fitbit moving manufacturing outside China from January
(Reuters) – Fitbit Inc (FIT.N) will manufacture all its trackers and smart watches outside China from January, the wearable device maker said on Wednesday, the latest U.S. company looking to insulate itself from tariffs. The company said it began exploring alternatives to China in 2018 as Washington and Beijing engaged in a tit-for-tat tariff war […]
2019 Microprocessor Slump Snaps Nine Years of Record Sales, Reports IC Insights
MPU market being pulled down by weakness in smartphones and servers, as well as the fallout from the U.S.‑China trade war. A modest rebound is expected in 2020, followed by new all-time high sales in 2021.The microprocessor market’s string of nine straight record-high annual sales between 2010 and 2018 is expected to end this year with […]
Rising Metals Prices Are Impacting Passive Component Production Costs in 2019, Reports TTI MarketEye
Originally posted on TTI MarketEye Blog MLCC and thick film chip resistor manufacturers are experiencing price increases in feedstock metals as they enter the fourth quarter of CY 2019. This MarketEYE article uses an economic model to discuss the potential impact that higher metals prices will have on mass-produced electronic components consumed in handsets, computers, […]
The Reading Room – What’s the SCOOP?
Trade wars, digital transformation, millennial mastery, Americas risky approach to AI, the butterfly effect, the gig economy, on-ramp jobs and robots making pizzas, that’s the SCOOP this week. In a regular Friday spot, this is the Reading Room, a roundup of what we’ve been reading, watching and listening to this week.