China-based smartphone vendors have been mostly inclined to adopt fingerprint recognition for their mid-range and high-end models and consequently they will ship an estimated 200-300 smartphones featuring fingerprint-recognizing functions ...
In booth 2709 at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC 2016) in Anaheim, CA, USA (22-24 March), optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of West Hills, CA, USA is demonstrating a 2x50G-PAM4 QSFP28 100G ...
Tags: Source Photonics, QSFP28
Cadence Design Systems is offering complete IC packaging design and analysis solutions for advanced fan-out wafer-level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) and 2.5D interposer-based designs. Designed to accelerate the multi-chip integration for ...
Tags: Cadence Design system, IC, Packaging
X-FAB Silicon Foundries of Erfurt, Germany - a mixed-signal IC, sensor and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry – has entered wide-bandgap semiconductor production by announcing the availability of silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET SiC Schottky barrier diodes SiC power devices
Nanoelectronics research center imec of Leuven, Belgium has opened its new 300mm cleanroom. With this 4000m2 new facility, imec's semiconductor research cleanrooms (dedicated to scaling IC technology beyond 7nm) now total 12,000m2. Global ...
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced the availability of a new set of process design kits ...
In booth #2244 at the 31st IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach (20-24 March), Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on ...
Tags: GaN FETs, DC-DC Converter
FormFactor Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (which provides wafer test technologies and expertise) has agreed to acquire Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton, OR, USA (which provides equipment enabling precision contact, electrical measurement and ...
Tags: LED devices, wafer
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has expanded its video library on GaN ...
Tags: EPC, E-mode GaN FETs, GaN-on-Si
Crown Asia Chemicals has reportedly invested in new equipment to increase plastic compounding capacity in Philippines by around 10%. The company equipped its facility in Guiguinto, Bulacan with a new polyvinyl chloride (PVC) compounding ...
Strong wireless demand resulted in growth of more than 25% in the gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC market in 2015, according to The Information Network in its report 'The GaAs IC Market'. Every cell phone contains power amplifiers (PA), ...
Tags: GaAs IC Market, PA
In booth 2712 (Hall A) at SEMICON Korea 2016 in Seoul (27-29 January), Advanced Energy Industries Inc of Fort Collins, CO, USA is highlighting its power and control technologies. Among its process power, high-voltage power and thermal ...
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for wireless connectivity and cellular mobility, has launched a new family of ultra-miniature 2.4GHz RF front-end IC ...
Tags: RFaxis CMOS, amplifier
Brisk orders for IoT-related products are expected to boost the performance of several Taiwan-based IC design houses specializing in MCUs, power management ICs and wireless transmission chips in 2016, according to industry sources. Elan ...
Tags: IoT devices, IC Design
Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery