Johnson Matthey announced on 28 March that, due to the “continued downturn in the LED and semiconductor markets”, it has decided to exit the gas purification market. The decision relates to gas purification for bulk gases ...
According to analyst firm Gartner, in-memory computing is “racing towards mainstream adoption”. Gartner believes that the "rapid maturation of application infrastructure technologies" and a continued "dramatic decline in the ...
Tags: in-memory computing, rapid penetration, Computer Products
Gallium nitride has been described as “the most important semiconductor since silicon” and is used in energy-saving LED lighting. A new £1million (or US$1,530,700) growth facility will allow University of Cambridge ...
Tags: GaN LEDs, Electrical, lighting
A little-publicized provision in a U.S. government budget resolution that largely prohibits four agencies from using Chinese-made IT products could backfire, several tech trade groups said. The provision, in a 2013 budget resolution ...
Viking Technology is shipping a memory board that combines DRAM and NAND flash memory to create a non-volatile standard DIMM card that can be used in servers and storage arrays. Viking's ArxCis-NV DIMM board has several purposes. With ...
Tags: DIMM Cards, Server, Computer Products
Swindon Silicon Systems, the mixed signal Asic designer, has signed with Redtree Solutions as its representative in the EMEA (European, Middle-Eastern and African) markets. The semiconductor supplier sees opportunities in Germany, Austria ...
In-memory computing (IMC) will reach the enterprise mainstream by 2016, creating a market worth $1bn (£700m) by 2016. So say analysts at Gartner. The research firm cites the "rapid maturation of infrastructure technologies" coupled ...
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Total worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 2.6 per cent to $299.9bn in 2012, according to figures released today by analyst group Gartner. Intel remained the runaway market leader for the 21st year in a row with revenues of $49.09bn, but ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has appointed James A. Clifford as vice president, Foundry Services. RFMD says that Clifford has wide-ranging experience in ...
Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), noted in August 2012 that the firm had changed its position in relation to investments in solar cell maker Motech, shifting from strategic purposes to ...
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Expected to rise 7.5% in the third. Semiconductor revenue is expected to rise 3.7% in the second quarter, between April to June period in 2013, according to the report by IHS iSuppli. The report expects the revenue to rise 7.5% in the ...
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The increase was driven by the memory sales Global semiconductors sales increased 1.4% in February 2013 to $23.25bn compared to the sales of $22.93bn in February 2012, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). In ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
US stocks started the second quarter down, pressured by disappointing manufacturing data, after the Dow industrials and S&P500 capped off the first quarter with records. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 5.69 points, or less than ...
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In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
At the 2013 IEEE ISSCC researchers from Kobe Univ and the ASET group (Assoc. of Super Advanced Electronic Technologies) presented their work on "A 100 GB/s Wide IO with 4096b TSVs through an active silicon interposer with in place waveform ...
Tags: AGC Glass, Stacked Memory, IFTLE 141 100GB