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NXP To Buy Freescale For $16.7B
By Ann Mutschler - 02 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler & Ed Sperling Dutch semiconductor giant NXP Semiconductors will buy Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor for $16.7 billion—$11.8 billion in cash, $5.6 billion worth of debts, minus $696 million in cash reserves—creating a combined company with a broad-based product portfolio and projected annual revenue of more than $10 billion. Given the size of the deal... » read more

ARM Buys Dutch IoT Security Company
By Ed Sperling - 09 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

ARM said today it purchased Offspark, a Dutch IoT security software company, expanding its reach into the embedded IoT world where security is emerging as one of the most pressing concerns. The deal expands ARM's focus on security, which until now has largely been focused on its TrustZone technology inside its processors. TrustZone is a hardware solution that allows compartmentalization betw... » read more

EDA Up, Japan Continues To Slide
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

EDA numbers grew 5.7% in the third quarter, propelled by demand for PCB tools in the booming automotive market and IP sales around the globe, according to the latest statistics from the EDA Consortium. The classic EDA tools business was down slightly for the quarter, but PCB tools jumped 9.7%. "There are new capabilities for packaging and wiring for automotive," said Wally Rhines, board ... » read more

Worldwide Semiconductor Market Booms
By Kenji Tsuda - 31 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

Worldwide sales of semiconductors have been growing steadily. In September, shipments passed 30 billion units—the highest monthly amount ever for that month, and 2014 is predicted to be a record-breaker when the numbers are finally tallied. Figure 1. Transition of worldwide semiconductor shipment prices peak in March, June, September, and December. Source: WSTS data edited by Semicon po... » read more

Chip Business Picks Up In Japan
By Kenji Tsuda - 16 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

Japan's semiconductor business is showing signs of recovery after several years of slumping sales due to an overall market recovery, the favorable exchange rate for the yen, and ongoing business restructuring. Consider Renesas, for example. The company went through several downsizing phases, causing a decline in semiconductor sales by 3.9% to 199.6 billion yen ($1.69 billion) in its fiscal Q... » read more

Bluetooth Adoption To Grow With IoT
By Kenji Tsuda - 04 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Bluetooth adoption is poised to explode as the Internet of Things takes root. "The amount of Bluetooth standard-installed devices has been rapidly increasing since Apple iPhone 4S installed Bluetooth Low Energy in 2011," said Errett Kroeter, director of industry and brand marketing for the Bluetooth brand. "So the progression will definitely continue." (Figure.1) Figure.1 Continuation o... » read more

SoCs For Safer Cars
By Kenji Tsuda - 30 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Renesas electronics has been developing a specialized automotive electronics business and recently rolled out an LSI (large-scale integration) management system including LSI, R-Car (an SoC for next-gen entertainment) and V2H (vehicle-to-home) for ADAS (Advance Driving Assist System) systems. These management systems have higher management functionality than traditional systems. Figure 1. ... » read more

Who Really Invented The Blue LED?
By Ed Sperling - 10 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 5

A dispute is simmering in the materials science community over the just-announced award of Nobel Prize in physics to three Japanese scientists, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura. Two materials science Ph.D. students from Stanford claim they got there first—two decades earlier, in fact. There's even a U.S. patent filed by Stanford University to prove it. Akasaki and Amano wor... » read more

NAND Flash Roadmaps Are Ready
By Kenji Tsuda - 06 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Samsung continues to lead in 3D memory, but IM Flash, Sk Hynix, Toshiba/SanDisk also plan to move to 3D technology within the next couple years. Fig. 1: NAND flash and DRAM roadmaps for volume production. Source: IC Insights. From a refinement standpoint, Toshiba/SanDisk is the current market leader, but this group is behind everybody else in 3D technology (Figure 1). Samsung began to ... » read more

All Aboard The Silicon Carbide Train…Literally
By Kenji Tsuda - 08 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

There were numerous announcements regarding power semiconductors at Techno-Frontier 2014, which was held last month in Tokyo. This year, one of the big stories was power semiconductors—for power and batteries, motors, and thermal designs—and the debate around cost is becoming much more frequent for silicon carbide. One feature article last month on the Kyoto economy in Nihon Keizai Shimb... » read more

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