Stay on top of the latest electronics industry news and product announcements. Read this week’s Electronics News Byte for updates on analog IC sales numbers, IC security research, the 8-GB Raspberry Pi 4, and more.

News on Analog IC Sales and More

  • TI Leads 2019 Analog IC Sales: Insights is reporting that Texas Instruments was the world's leading supplier of analog ICs in 2019 with $10.2 billion in sales (down approximately $600 million from 2018). Analog Devices ($5.1 billion) followed with Infineon ($3.7 billion), ST ($3.2 billion), and Skyworks Solutions ($3.2 billion) closely behind. 
     
  • DARPA Targets IC Security: Last week, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced research teams comprising academic, defense, and commercial researchers that will focus on embedding next-gen security in chip designs. The research conducted within the Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) program will address four security issues: reverse engineering, side channel attacks, hardware Trojans, and supply chain vulnerabilities (e.g., counterfeiting and cloning).  The teams include researchers from companies and institutions such as Synopsys, Arm, Northrop Grumman, IBM, Boeing, Texas A&M University.
     
  • 8-GB Raspberry Pi 4 Now Available: Last week, we reported the availability of the 8-GB Raspberry Pi 4. With the 8-GB model, you can develop a wide variety of applications that require heavy multitasking, including AI and gaming.
     
  • New Product News: Telit offers new generation of 5G/LTE M.2 cards at Rutronik; Microchip Switchtec PAX Advanced Fabric Gen 4 PCIe Switches Released to Production; and Lattice sensAI 3.0 Solutions Stack Doubles Performance, Cuts Power Consumption in Half for Edge AI Applications; and new Elektor books: Innovate with Sense HAT for Raspberry Pi (by Dr. Dogan Ibrahim) and Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi (by Frank Delporte).

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