2022 Semiconductor reach ~ $600 B and 10% growth
Entering a period of robust growth In 2022, the global semiconductor chip industry is expected to reach about US$600 billion. But while it’s still dwarfed by farming, oil, and gas-industries that…
Photon counting cameras for quantum imaging applications
Prof. Edoardo Charbon: Photon counting has entered the realm of image sensing with the creation of deep-submicron CMOS SPAD technology. The format of SPAD image sensors has expanded from 8×4 pixels…
JP Morgan: 2023 mobile growth is key and electric vehicle is the next trend.
According to JP Morgan, demand of industry is normalizing in 2022, while mobile growth remains key and electric vehicle long term trend intact. (JP Morgan report)
Apple Car: What We Know
What We Know Physical car project still in the worksDeep integration with iOS expectedAutonomous testing permit received from DMVSelf-driving software being tested Apple’s Car Project: Everything We Know In 2014, Apple began…
Huawei and FAANG Increase R&D
Huawei has almost doubled its R&D budget over the past half-decade to USD22.1B in 2021, more than any company in the world outside America. That is 22.4% of its sales…
Top 50 semiconductor suppliers represented 89% of the total $614.6B
According to IC Insights, in 2021, the top 50 semiconductor suppliers, not including the pure-play foundries, represented 89% of the total USD614.6B worldwide semiconductor market, up eight points from the…
Tutorial on Single-Photon Detectors
Krister Shalm of National Institute of Standards and Technologies presented a tutorial: Single-photon detectors at the 2013 QCrypt Conference in August. http://2013.qcrypt.net This is from a while back but an…
Google AI: Lidar-Camera Fusion
A team from Google Research has a new blog article on fusing Lidar and camera data for 3D object detection. The motivating problem here seems to be the issue of…
LiDAR Videos: market, SPAD and etc
PhotonicsNXT Fall Summit keynote discusses automotive lidar How Lidar Is Powering Automated Driving This keynote session by Pierrick Boulay of Yole Developpement at the PhotonicsNXT Fall Summit held on October…
Image Sensor Market Updates
Sigmaintell report on smartphone image sensors According to Sigmaintell, the global mobile phone image sensor shipments in 2021 will be approximately 5.37B units, a YoY decrease of about 11.8%; among which,…