As the semiconductor industry moves to 28nm,20nm and below process technologies,demand for equipment used to make more advanced chips is set to boom allowing Scientech to work toward a promising future,according to company president ...
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Computerworld - Siemens is working on a fix for a remotely exploitable vulnerability in network routers and switches from subsidiary RuggedCom that are widely deployed in refineries, power substations and other critical infrastructure ...
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Toumaz has completed the acquisition of Frontier Silicon. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips,announced in July it had agreed to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer for ...
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For small petrol engines,Freescale has introduced an analogue mop-up chip to fire the ignition,pump the fuel injection,and read sensors in engine management systems. "Small engine makers are increasingly deploying electronic engine ...
Dialog Semiconductor says its system power management ICs (PMICs) are being used to optimise the power requirements of tablets and other devices based on Freescale multicore i.MX 6 series applications processors. The Dialog device powers ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS),has launched the SPDT PE42421 RF switch,available in a miniature,6-lead SC-70 package.The ...
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Hans Camenzind,designer of the 555,has died at the age of 78. Born Swiss,he moved to the USA at the age of 24 to take an MSEE and MBA.He worked in R&D at PR Mallory and,after six years,decided he wanted to join a company which made ICs ...
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Power Integrations introduces 75W single-stage driver for LED lighting Date Announced:16 Aug 2012 San Jose,CA–Power Integrations(Nasdaq:POWI),maker of the world's most efficient,longest-lasting off-line LED driver ICs,today ...
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The last installment in this three-part series tackles the challenges faced by makers. Shenzhen represents more than 70 percent of Guangdong province's lighting products. The bulk of the latter's LED light shipments of $3.81 billion ...
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Internet-based electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp of Thief River Falls,MN,USA has signed a global distribution agreement with Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford,MA,which supplies MMIC-based solutions for communication and ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS)founded in 1990,has closed its initial public offering(announced on 7 August).In connection ...
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The CAGR of the semiconductor market for 2011-16 will be double that of the preceding five years, says IC Insights. Memory will drive the accelerated growth rate. NAND flash is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 16.6% until 2016 and DRAM is ...
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Chroma ATE, a Taiwan-based provider of in-house-developed automated testing solutions and equipment, is looking to demand for automated equipment of testing LED lighting devices arising from growing use of LED lighting, company chairman and ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS)founded in 1990,has raised$77m in its initial public offering(IPO)of 5,500,000 shares of ...
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Soraa will lead DOE funded research on GaN LED substrates 08 Aug 2012 The DOE's transformational-energy agency ARPA-E has selected GaN-on-GaN startup Soraa to lead a project on the development of bulk GaN substrates. Startup Soraa emerged ...
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