The process technology gap between the top foundries and the others is a enormousa,says IC Insights. Only four companies out of 18 pure-play foundries can make leading edge ICs and only four others have a 90nm capability. a In 2012,TSMC ...
Tags: IC, TSMC, UMC, SMIC, FinFET IC technology, Electrical&Electronics
Upscale lighting and automotive applications direct product development efforts. Tightening competition in the LED driver IC line is spurring further product development in Taiwan amid widening adoption of the"green"technology in lighting ...
Tags: LED, LED driver IC R&D, LD7101 model, Taiwan, Upscale lighting
Texas Instruments has a new 6-channel LED driver IC for high-light applications such as street lights, while Allegro Microsystems introduced a product that can drive 3A and Diodes Inc. has a new driver for SSL application using mid-power ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)and Kinsus Interconnect Technology Co.,Ltd.would become the primary winners of Apple's added contracts for iPhone 5 chips,according to industry sources. Apple's supply chains have reportedly ...
Following six months of consecutive decline,Taiwan's export rebounded vigorously in the first half of September,with growth rate exceeding 10%,reported Shih Yien-shiang,minister of economics yesterday(Sept.24). Meanwhile,the Ministry of ...
EV Group(EVG)of St Florian,Austria,a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS(micro-electro-mechanical system),nanotechnology and semiconductor markets,has received an order for its EVG850 temporary ...
Equipment maker Scientech noted that the firm's share in high-end LED wet bench processes has exceeded 50%. The firm expects the LED market to continue expanding. Scientech's new single wafer wet processor tool for front-end semiconductor ...
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LSI and ARM are addressing the data deluge gap–the perennial gap between the demand for bandwidth and the capacity provided by the network operators. Jeff Richardson,LSI's COO,points out that network traffic is growing at 32%CAGR ...
Tags: Arm and Lsi, The Data Deluge Gap, network operators, networking chips
The race to manufacture the most power-efficient and fastest chips is gaining momentum, with contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries on Thursday announcing technology advances that analysts said could allow the company to catch ...
Tags: Chip Manufacturing, Intel, ARM, US
At the European Conference on Optical Communications(ECOC 2012)in Amsterdam,The Netherlands(17-19 September),M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell,MA,USA(which makes analog semiconductors,components and subassemblies for RF,microwave ...
Tags: M/A-COM, modulator drivers, ECOC, manufacturing
In the fourth-round relaxation for restrictions on Chinese investments in Taiwan, the government may allow Chinese investments in hotels and sports facilities and remove the investment ceiling forbidding Chinese investors to own controlling ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)has reportedly landed a huge contract from field programmable gate array(FPGA)IC giant Altera Corp.for 20nm process foundry service although the foundry supplier will start pilot production of ...
Tags: TSMC, FPGA, 20nm Process Service, CoWoS, Altera
Samsung at$13.1bn capex,Intel at$11.2bn,TSMC at$8.3bn,Hynix at$3.7bn and GlobalFoundries at$3.1bn are expected to account for 64%of the$61.4bn in semiconductor capex forecast for 2012,says IC Insights. Back in 2005,the top 5 companies ...
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Many automated teller machines(ATMs)and point-of-sale(POS)terminals fail to properly generate random numbers that are required by the EMV protocol to securely authenticate transaction requests,according to a team of researchers from the ...
Tags: ATMs, POS terminal, EMV, secret encryption key, ARQC
Taipei, Sept. 10, 2012 (CENS)--In the fourth-round relaxation for restrictions on Chinese investments in Taiwan, the government may allow Chinese investments in hotels and sports facilities and remove the investment ceiling forbidding ...
Tags: Taipei, Equipment, relaxation