The in-house chip development programs of leading Chinese smartphone makers has been under spotlight. On May 31st, Huawei-spinoff smartphone brand Honor set up a wholly-owned subsidiary Shanghai Honor Smart Technology Development Co. (temporary translation), fueling speculation if Honor will strengthen its in-house chip design deployment. In the aftermath of Oppo s recent disbandment of its in-house chip design team, there has been speculation if Honor will establish a chip design subsidiary and absorb talents from Oppo s disbanded IC design te.
MediaTek is partnering with Nvidia to boost its competitiveness in the automotive IC market versus Qualcomm, but Qualcomm believes its extended deployment in the industry will keep it competitive.
Incorporating AI into audio ICs is gaining traction and is becoming increasingly necessary for PC applications as hybrid work models become a norm and notebook requirements increase, said Cirrus Logic
Samsung Electronics has announced on June 2 its participation as a steering board member in the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project initiated by the Linux Foundation Europe. The new project, launched on May 31, aims to foster collaboration among software and hardware vendors to expedite the availability of high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running advanced operating systems for diverse market segments. Apart from Samsung, participants of the project include Andes, Google, Intel, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, Nvidia, Q.