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OnePlus Nord CE 5G launched – List of specifications and features.

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On 10th June 2021, OnePlus launched the new model in the Nord series, OnePlus Nord CE 5G. The company made the announcement through an online live stream and revealed the new features of this latest smartphone. The new OnePlus Nord smartphone varies from the original Nord model that was released last year on a few grounds. Both the outlook and the internal system have been significantly modified to make it look both sleek and for better performance. The slim appearance of the new Nord CE 5G makes it the slimmest OnePlus model after the OnePlus 6T which was released almost three years ago. This new OnePlus Nord model comes in three different colors and each one has options for a matte and glossy back finish.

Specifications of OnePlus Nord CE 5G

The new OnePlus Nord CE 5G is powered by Android 11 and OxygenOS 11 with dual-sim (Nano). OnePlus has chosen the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC for running the system of the new model and it also comes with Adreno 619 GPU and RAM of 6GB. The display of Nord CE 5G features a 6.43-inch full HD AMOLED display. The aspect ratio of the display is 20:9 with a refresh rate of 90Hz.

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The OnePlus Nord CE 5G will be offering internal storage of 256GB with connectivity options including 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.1, GPS/ A-GPS/ NaVIC, NFC, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack (Gadgets 360). The different types of sensors in the mobile include an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, magnetometer, gyroscope, and accelerometer. Apart from these features, it has an in-display fingerprint sensor, speakers with noise cancellation support, 4500 mAh battery life. The battery has been improved as compared to the last Nord model by OnePlus.

Price and Availability

In India, the price of the new OnePlus Nord CE 5G starts from Rs. 22,999. This price is for the variant of 6GB+128GB. The price of the model for 8GB+128GB variants starts from Rs. 24, 999. One of the models of the new Nord CE 5G starts from Rs. 27,999 and is a showstopper with a 12GB+256GB storage variant. The three different colors available for all these models are Blue Void (matte), Charcoal Ink (Glossy), and Silver Ray. OnePlus Nord CE 5G will be made available from 16th June and you can also preorder from today itself. They will be available in the online stores of OnePlus and Amazon. 

Camera System of Nord CE 5G

OnePlus has always been one of the top choices of users when it comes to camera quality. Be it for photography, video calling, or taking selfies, the photographs produced by a OnePlus are highly distinguishable. The new OnePlus Nord CE 5G comes with a triple rear camera system. The camera setup consists of a 64-megapixel primary sensor with a lens of aperture f/1.79. The primary sensor has electronic image stabilization (EIS) which helps greatly while shooting videos with users being in motion. The secondary camera has a sensor of 8 megapixels with an ultra-wide lens of f/2.25 and the third one is a 2-megapixel monochrome sensor with an f/2.4 lens.

OnePlus can easily substitute heavy gear for a photographer especially while hiking or traveling in busy areas. The images and the videos are of very high quality and quench the need for a good camera. With the pandemic shifting of our work culture to a remote version, users can easily attend video calls with the front camera of Nord CE 5G which features a 16 megapixel Sony IMX471 sensor that also has EIS.

Seems like the rear camera system of the OnePlus Nord CE 5G is the center of attraction as it has multi autofocus options (PDAF+CAF). The shooting options available in the phone for the rear camera are Nightscape, Ultrashort HDR, Panorama, Pro Mode, Portrait, and Smart Scene Recognition. Videos can be recorded in 4K resolution with 30fps. Time-lapse can also be made while doing videography.

Maxim Integrated

Maxim Integrated – Developers of Innovative Analog ICs

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Maxim Integrated is one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The company is over 38 years old and was established by a nine-member team following a two-page business plan. Today the company trades on Nasdaq as MXIM, NASDAQ-100 component, and S&P 500 component and has its headquarters located in San Jose, California, U.S. Based on the 2020 records, the number of employees working for Maxim is over 7000 people and recorded annual revenue of the company is US$2.191 billion.

Founding History of Maxim Integrated

Maxim was founded by a bunch of semiconductors design and sales experts in April 1993. The team included Jack Gifford, Fred Beck, Dave Bingham, Steve Combs, Lee Evans, Dave Fullagar, Roger Fuller, Rich Hood, and Dick Wilenken, Jack Gifford leading the team. All of these members were related to the semiconductor industry in terms of having contributed to the semiconductor industry on a major scale.

The nine-team members of the company represented a two pages plan in front of a local investor and raised a US$9 million capital in the venture to start the company. The company started by developing 24 second-source products, and later in 1985, it launched its first proprietary product MAX600, which won the company an industry award. This was the beginning of the innovative journey for the company.

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In 1987, Maxim had its first IPO, and in the same year, the company introduced its first most successful product, MAX232, leading to the most successful fiscal year. In the second quarter of 1988, Maxim recorded sales worth 28.3 million. In 1989, after it acquired its first wafer fabrication plant from Saratoga Semiconductor, the company started the in-house manufacturing of the IC wafers.

In 1991, Maxim made a policy of working 24 hours a day, skipping all the holidays, leading to a hike in profits, from $7.6 million to $13.7 million, for that year. Maxim also made it to Business Week’s Top 100 Small Companies and Forbes’s Top 200 in both 1991 and 1992 for being a good place for work and having the best customer service. By the beginning of the 90s, Maxim had bagged contracts from companies like International Business Machines, Motorola, and Hitachi and had introduced more than 600 new chips. The acquisition of Tectronix in 1994 helped Maxim to enter the wireless and fiber-optics communications businesses.

The company recorded annual revenue worth $500 million in 1998, and in 2005, it was listed in the Fortune 1000 company. By 2008, the company had registered 50% more patents in its names, whereas in 2010, it built the first analog product on a 300mm wafer. Maxim’s total revenue for the fiscal year 2011 was over $2.47 billion, and as per 2019 records, Maxim Integrated was serving 35,000 global customers.

Acquisitions by Maxim

Maxim is known for the lucrative acquisitions that it made in the past 38 years. The company started off by acquiring the first wafer fabrication (fab) facility in Sunnyvale, California in 1990, The company then acquired the semiconductor division of Tektronix in 1994, followed by acquiring an additional wafer fab from IC Works in 1997 and Dallas Semiconductor in 2001. Later Maxim purchases the CMOS fab from Philips in 2003, a 0.18-micrometer fab from Atmel, and Vitesse Semiconductor’s Storage Products Division in 2007. In 2008 and 2009, Maxim acquired Mobilygen, Innova Card as well as two product lines from Zilog, Inc.

Starting from 2010, the next decade included the acquisitions of Teridian Semiconductor Corporation (2010), Trinity Convergence Limited (2010), Phyworks (2010), SensorDynamics (2011), Cambridge Analog Technologies, Inc. (2011), Genasic Design Systems Ltd. (2012), Volterra Semiconductor (2013), Icron Technologies (2018), and Trinamic (2020).

The CEO at Maxim Integrated

Tunç Doluca has been serving Maxim Integrated as the President and CEO since January 2007. He was born in Ankara, Turkey. He has a BSEE degree from Iowa State University and an MSEE degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Doluca joined Maxim Integrated in 1984 as a member of the technical staff. In 1993, he was appointed as the Vice President of R&D at Maxim, and the next year, he was named leader of the first vertical business unit for portable power-management products at Maxim. At the beginning of the 2000s, Doluca was heading seven business units in the company and became the Group President in 2005. Doluca has 11 patents under his name and has designed 40 products for Maxim. He has also designed the industry’s first high-integration, notebook power-supply IC (the MAX786).

Arista Networks

Arista Networks – An American company Pioneering in Cloud Networking Solutions since 2004

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Arista Networks is famous for providing cognitive cloud networking solutions for large data centers, high-performance computing centers, and high-frequency trading environments. The company is based in Santa Clara, California and it offers a wide range of products and solutions from cloud networking to telemetry and analytics. Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, and Kenneth Duda co-founded Arista Networks in 2004. The founders came from a background with rich experience in semiconductor and hardware design.

Introduction to Arista Networks

Arista Networks provides a highly efficient networking solution to big data centers as the products include an array of Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second. The platform of Arista is also made highly secure with CloudVision and Arista EOS (Linux-based network operating system) which is installed in all Arista products. Apart from the highly experienced co-founders of Arista, the current President and CEO of the company is Jayshree Ullal who also has a luminous career history. Arista is very famous around the world for picking up a team of intellectuals who have a rich professional history thus operated by a team of visionaries. The company went public in 2014 and is listed as ANET in NYSE.

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Founding History of Arista Networks

As mentioned earlier, all the founders are from an industrial background as they were associated with large enterprises before co-founding Arista Networks. Andy Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun Microsystems back in 1982 and he served as the chief hardware designer of the company. Andy, along with David, co-founded a new company called Granite Systems in 1995 where they started developing Gigabit Ethernet products. After a year, the company was acquired by Cisco Systems. After a few years, Andy and David again opened up a new start-up called Kealia but again it was acquired by Sun Microsystems.

After this acquisition, David and Andy worked at Cisco in executive positions and along with Kennetth Duda. Kennetth Duda was the first employee of Granite Systems and that’s how he met the other two co-founders. They successfully developed a product line for the Cisco company called Catalyst and decided to establish their own company in 2004 which is currently known as Arista Networks. Jayshree Ullal, the current CEO of the company is also an ex-employee of Cisco who worked there for fifteen years. From 2014, there have been several differences followed by filing lawsuits between Cisco and Arista and the latter agreed to $400 million as a part of the settlement.

Customers and Acquisitions

Arista’s customers mainly include big enterprises around the globe that require highly efficient and fast networking platforms. Currently, Arista has many big customers who are in the list of Fortune 500 companies. Arista delivers its products across the data centers and campus with routing and software solutions in order to monitor and be responsive globally. There are around 7,000 customers worldwide served by Arista Networks on a daily basis.

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Arista Networks have acquired quite a few companies in the last few years. It’s latest acquisition is Awake Security which is a network detection and response platform that uses AI to prevent both internal and external threats. Along with Awake Security, the company also acquired Big Switch Networks last year. This acquisition led to the availability of DANZ Monitoring Fabric, a network observability software across all switching networks of Arista. In 2018, the company acquired Mojo Networks which provides Arista with Wifi solutions for networks across campus and enterprise. Arista also acquired Metamako in 2018 which augments Arista’s low latency platforms.

The Founders of Arista Networks

Andy Bechtolsheim is currently serving as the Chairman and the Chief Development Officer of Arista Networks. Previously, he worked at Sun Microsystems where he was in charge of next generation server, storage, and network architectures. Andy is a computer engineer who went to Carnegie Mellon University and received his doctorate from Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

After co-founding Arista Networks, David Cheriton co-founded a couple of more companies like Apstra Inc and BrainofT Inc. He received his bachelor’s degree from University of British Columbia and his masters and doctorate from the University of Waterloo. Currently, he is a computer science professor at Stanford University.

Kenneth Duda is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering at Arista Networks. He also worked as the CTO of There.com where he built a real-time 3D distributed system. Kenneth went to MIT where he graduated in three different engineering courses.

Synopsys

Synopsys – Changing The Way Companies Work And Play

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Advanced silicone chips and increasing software content working together intelligently and securely are at the core of this new era of digital innovation. Synopsys leads Smart Everything with the most advanced chip design and verification technologies worldwide, IP integration and security software, and quality testing.

Synopsys technology allows major firms to integrate their next-generation products into smarts, safety, and safety. They help our clients reach new energy, speed, connection, mobility, and reliability goals from silicone through to software that is vital to Smart Everything’s future.

The Establishment Of Synopsys

In 1986 in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, Synopsys was founded by Aart J de Geus and David Gregory. The company was initially founded as Optimal Solutions, a charter designed and produced by the General Electric team to develop and commercialize synthesis technologies. Over the history of Synopsys, they acquired a number of key acquisitions in silicon and design testing. CoWare, which now belongs to Synopsys, was a supplier of platform-driven software and services for electronic systems (ESL) design. CoWare has operations worldwide, main R&D offices in Belgium, Germany, and India. CoWare has its headquarters at its offices in San Jose, Calif.

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In 1992, the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium launched CoWare development as an internal project. As an independent firm, CoWare split out in 1996. Synopsys announced a purchase of CoWare on February 8, 2010.

Products and Solutions

Designing The Best Chips Quicker

Synopsys is the world’s leading supplier of solutions for the development and verification of advanced silicon chips as well as the design of new processes and models for the production of these chips. Their design technologies enhance productivity and deliver the highest quality while optimizing the power, performance, and cost chips. The verification technology cuts months off project plans by allowing complex chips to be verified with software more quickly.

Providing Security Faster

In every level of software development and the whole supply chain, Synopsys helps companies integrate security and quality in the DNA of their software code. It helps in reducing risks while maximizing application development speeds. The customer may identify and solve vulnerabilities and deficiencies in proprietary code, open-source, and application behavior at an unprecedented depth, accuracy, and speed using our statical analysis, software composition analysis, and dynamic analysis solutions. They assist organizations with early and regularly testing their software so that costly product crashes, security violations, and system disasters can be avoided. In order to verify compliance with licenses, correct vulnerabilities, and decrease operational risk, they also automate the securing and management of open-source software.

The Founder of Synopsys: Aart de Geus

Aart has been developing Synopsys from a start-up synthesis company to a global high-tech leader ever since its co-founding in 1986. He has been a global leader in logic synthesis and simulation for many years and often leads important conferences in electronics and design automation.

Dr. de Geus has been widely recognized for his technical, business, and community achievements with multiple awards including Electronic Business Magazine’s “CEO of the Year,” the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, the GSA Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame Award, and the SVLG Lifetime Achievement Award. He served on the Silicon Valley Leadership Group boards, the Applied Materials Alliance, the Global Semiconductor Alliance, and the Alliance for the Design of Electronic Systems.

Chi-Foon Chan: The Co-CEO of Synopsys

Chi-Foon is responsible for vision and strategy building, directing the company, and ensuring excellence in execution supporting the success of our clients. As President and COO of the Company, he was responsible for internal operations and worldwide field organizations 14 years prior to his 2012 appointment as President and CEO.

As Vice President for Applications and Services, Chi-Foon joined Synopsys in 1990, helping to construct the organization of the Technical Field. He supported many significant projects such as IP entry, and facilitated significant acquisitions personally, such as Avanti, Virage Logic, Magma Design Automation, and SpringSoft. In 2014, with Coverity and the acquisition of Codenomicon, he drove Synopsys into the software testing business and into the software security business.

Prior to Synopsys, Chi-Foon was responsible for marketing all NEC chip devices in North America to industry leaders such as NEC Corporation, which was General Manager of the microprocessor group. Before NEC, he was Intel Corporation’s Engineering Manager. He has an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rutgers.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton – The Pioneers of Consulting and Management Services

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Booz Allen Hamilton is an American consulting agency, which provides management and IT consulting services to its clients. The company headquarters is based in McLean, Virginia, U.S., and was founded in 1914, by Edwin G. Booz, James L. Allen, and Carl L. Hamilton. The company name is after the surnames of three founders. Booz Allen is one of the leading consulting firms in America and has also over 80 offices in different parts of the world, including clients from private-public as well as non-profits sectors.

Booz Allen Hamilton has two divisions that provide IT and management services, i.e., Worldwide Commercial Business and Worldwide Technology Business. The former is for providing management services, and the other is to provide technology consulting and system development services to both private as well as government organizations. Booz Allen & Hamilton Health Care Inc and Booz Allen & Hamilton Acquisition Services are the main subsidiary companies of Booz Allen Hamilton.

The Establishment of Booz Allen Hamilton

The company history dates back to over 100 years ago, in 1914, when a company, named Business Research Service, was founded by Edwin G. Booz to provide consulting services to other companies. Booz wanted to build a business model where companies could hire experts for unbiased advice for their businesses, such that to help them grow even better. The business was recognized as one of its kind. Two years later, two other partners, James L. Allen and Carl L. Hamilton joined the company.

Even at the beginning of the company, it was able to grab clients like Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and Canadian Pacific Railway. For the first thirty years of Business Research Service, it was juggling with a lot of name changes, like Edwin G. Booz, Business Engineering Service, and Business Surveys. George Fry joined the company as the first full-time assistant in 1925 and later, became a partner. In 1936, the company headquarters was moved to Field Building in Chicago. The same year, the company was named Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton, but as in 1942, Fry left the company, it became Booz Allen Hamilton.

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In 1940, Booz Allen Hamilton bagged a contract from the U.S. Navy such that the company was to assess the preparedness of the Navy for the second world war in terms of the condition of the Navy’s shipyards, telephone systems, and intelligence operations, etc. By the end of the war, the company had established three offices in the major cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, with around 400 clients on board. Though the war was over, the company continued to offer its services to the US military.

In 1955 Booz Allen Hamilton established the Booz Allen Applied Research, Inc. (BAARINC). The company got recognized as ‘the world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firm’ by Time magazine in 1959. By this time, IBM, Abbott Labs, and the US Department of the Interior had also become its clients, and the company was making annual revenues worth $55 million.

Booz Allen Hamilton went public in January 1970. In the early 70s, NASA hired the company to evaluate a $100 million satellite to orbit the earth for one year. During the same time, the company also started to work in the telecom and IT field. 1980, the recorded annual revenue for the company was $180 million. To get a hold on the technology market, the company entered the commercial systems integration field in 1989.

By the mid-90s, the company’s operations were restructured and divided into two divisions, i.e., technology services & systems development and commercial management consulting. In 2008, with a spin-off, the commercial arm of Booz Allen Hamilton was separated to form Booz & Company, which later was acquired by PwC. The company had another round of IPO in 2010. By 2020, the company also became the SEC’s major cybersecurity services provider.

International Expansion and Acquisitions

In 1953, the company went international after Booz Allen Hamilton bagged a contract from the Philippines and the Egyptian government. During the same time, the company also opened its office in Italy. The company made some acquisitions like Designers for Industry (renamed Design & Development) and Foster D. Snell Laboratory in the early 60s.

By the end of the 60s, the company had also started to work with several European industries, including the British heavy industry and consumer goods manufacturers and West German and Scandinavian steel producers. During the same time, the company was also actively working with the governments of Brazil, Argentina, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia as well as Venezuela.

In 1972, Booz Allen Hamilton entered the Japanese industry. The company acquired Advanced Decision Systems Inc in 1991, and in 2012, it acquired the Defense Systems Engineering & Support division of ARINC, followed by the acquisition of Epidemico in 2014, S.C. technology firm SPARC in 2015, and eGov Holding in 2017.

The Founder: Edwin George Booz

Edwin George Booz is recognized as the founder of Booz Allen Hamilton as he was the first one to start the company. He was born on 2 September 1887 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He completed a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in psychology from Kellogg School at Northwestern University. As soon he completed his education, he started Business Research Service in 1914.

Supermicro

Supermicro – The Company Seeking Innovation for its Customers.

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The arrival of personal computers helped IT technology grow at a faster pace. With having computers at home, people were more interested in learning about IT and upcoming related technologies. It also helped many budding entrepreneurs to try their hands on business apart from the traditional trades and grow along with the IT industry. Supermicro ( aka Super Micro Computer Inc) is one such company that started when the personal computer was becoming a thing, and today, after 28 years long journey, the company is one of the largest IT company in the world.

Supermicro as the Market Leader

Supermicro is a 28 years old American information technology company founded by Charles Liang, Wally Liaw, and Sara Liu in 1993. The company headquarter is located in San Jose, California. Supermicro is a public company and trades on Nasdaq as SMCI. Charles Liang, the founder of Supermicro is heading the company as the president and the CEO.

As per 2017 records, Supermicro made revenues worth $2.53 billion and has been listed among the world’s 100 largest US publicly traded companies by Fortune Magazine. Supermicro is known for its services in computer servers, storage, networking devices, server management software as well as a high-end workstation for enterprise IT and embedded markets.

The Founding of Supermicro

Supermicro was founded by Charles Liang, Wally Liaw, and Sara Liu in 1993, at a time when companies like Oracle, Dell, and IBM were already dominating the market. The founders established the company intending to bring innovative technology to the customers at lower prices, and it still follows the same goal. According to CEO Liang, the company has a strong engineering background that makes it bring the newest and advanced technology before its rivals.

The company has a history of gradual growth since its inception. The company introduced the Pentium® Pro-based products in 1994, which immediately became popular among most North American companies. The next year, Supermicro introduced the world’s first x86 DP server boards based on Orion chipset. The success and increased demand for Supermicro’s products helped it establish a new manufacturing facility in Taiwan in 1996. It also developed the world’s first 20 ready server board named COMDEX in the same year.

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Few of the next first in the industry from Supermicro includes the server boards supporting both Intel® Pentium® Pro and Pentium® II processors, Xeon® Pentium® II server solution, 533MHz FSB rackmount server system, 64-bit 1U Itanium2 platform, and first 1U server with 1 Terabyte of SATA storage and patent for industry’s first redundant cooling power supply, etc.

In 1998, Supermicro went on to establish its European subsidiary in the Netherlands. The company had its first IPO in 2007 and went public on NASDAQ under the symbol SMCI. Supermicro won the Blade Systems Insight 2010 Award for Best Blade-Based Solution in 2010. With exceeding $1B in revenues in 2012, Supermicro became a unicorn company, and in September 2014, Supermicro moved its headquarters to the former Mercury News headquarters in North San Jose, California, and named the campus Supermicro Green Computing Park. The revenues were double in 2016, and Fortune Magazine named Supermicro the World’s Fastest Growing IT Infrastructure Company. In 2018, Supermicro was the 3rd largest server systems supplier in the world.

Today, Supermicro is actively offering its services to major IT companies in the world and specializes mainly in AI and HPC, Enterprise Applications and Data Analytics, Data Management, Cloud and Virtualization, 5G, Edge Computing and IoT as well as Hyperscale Infrastructure.

The CEO, Charles Liang

Charles Liang belongs to the Taiwanese ethnicity. He was born and brought up in Taiwan and completed B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science & Technology. Later, he moved to to the US and earned a master’s degree in the same subject from the University of Texas at Arlington.

After completing his higher education, Liang joined the Suntek Information International Group, and in January 1988, moved to Chips & Technologies, where he worked as Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader. He also worked as the President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc. for two years, before he founded Supermicro in 1993. He has been serving the company as the president and the CEO since the inception of the company.