Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 19 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

SK hynix and TSMC plan to collaborate on HBM4 development and next-generation packaging technology, with plans to mass produce HBM4 chips in 2026. The agreement is an early indicator for just how competitive, and potentially lucrative, the HBM market is becoming. SK hynix said the collaboration will enable breakthroughs in memory performance with increased density of the memory controller at t... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 22 Sep, 2023 - Comments: 0

By Jesse Allen, Karen Heyman, and Liz Allan The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced $238 million in awards toward establishing eight regional innovation hubs under the CHIPS and Science Act. The hubs aim to accelerate hardware prototyping and "lab-to-fab" transition of semiconductor technologies for secure edge/IoT, 5G/6G, AI hardware, quantum technology, electromagnetic warfare, and ... » read more

Demand For Timing Innovation Grows

By Jeff Goldman - 19 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

The semiconductor industry has begun exploring a range of timing options as demand for increased performance and more features exceeds the ability to design chips using the same techniques and technology that have been relied on for decades. Like many elements in computing, timing is a hierarchy or stack. It includes everything from partitioning AI computations into multiple parts and assemb... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Autos

By Jeff Dorsch - 25 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Products/Services Rambus reports completing the sale of its Payments and Ticketing businesses to Visa for $75 million in cash. “With 30 years of experience pushing the envelope in semiconductor design, we look toward a future of continued innovation to carry on our mission of making data faster and safer,” Rambus President and CEO Luc Seraphin said in a statement. “Completing this transa... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT

By Jeff Dorsch - 16 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

Market Research International Data Corp. updated its Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, forecasting global IoT spending will increase 16.7% this year to more than $800 billion. The market research firm says the market will grow to almost $1.4 trillion by 2021. Manufacturing, smart grid technologies, freight monitoring, production asset management, and smart building techno... » 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

The Week In Review: Manufacturing

By Mark LaPedus - 31 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

STMicroelectronics announced mixed results for the quarter. The company also launched a plan to cut $100 million in costs. As part of the plan, it is reviewing the implications to its process technology efforts following the recent announcements by its research alliance partners, namely IBM. STMicro is one of the main drivers of FDSOI technology. The company’s FDSOI partner is IBM, which is s... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing

By Mark LaPedus - 26 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Is the sky falling on the ATE market? The ATE market is expected to hit $2.8 billion in 2014, up from $2.28 billion in 2013, according to Pacific Crest Securities. “Overall, we are now modeling overall semiconductor test demand to decline by 2% in 2015, a significant change from our previous estimate of up 10%,” said Weston Twigg, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities, in a report. “Te... » read more

MEMS Oscillators Market News – Accelerating Adoption of silicon MEMS timing

By Tony Massimini - 12 Dec, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Tony Massimini Recently there have been two major announcements in the MEMS Oscillator market. Market leader SiTime breaks into the high-precision OCXO timing with Stratum 3 compliant solutions. Integrated Device Technology jumps into the MEMS oscillator market with a piezoelectric MEMS resonator. SiTime has introduced the SiT5301 and SiT5302 which address the highest performance applica... » read more

MEMS on SOI – Growing Fast and Faster

By Various Writers - 11 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Adele Hars In the latest ASN posting by Dr. Eric Mounier of Yole Developpement, “SOI for MEMS: A Promising Material”, he notes that SOI MEMS is growing at a CAGR (2011-2015) of 15.6%, compared to 8.1% for bulk silicon-based solutions. MEMS designers are doing amazing things on SOI – which would explain that impressive growth rate. [caption id="attachment_12" align="aligncenter... » read more

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Chip Industry Week In Review

Chip Industry Week In Review

Demand For Timing Innovation Grows

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Autos

The Week In Review: IoT

Chip Business Picks Up In Japan

The Week In Review: Manufacturing

The Week In Review: Manufacturing

MEMS Oscillators Market News – Accelerating Adoption of silicon MEMS timing

MEMS on SOI – Growing Fast and Faster

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