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
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
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) planned 12-inch wafer fab in China could be vying for 16nm chip orders from China's local IC design houses specializing in the development of LCD driver ICs, touchscreen controllers, TDDI ...
Tags: IC industry, LCD driver
The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry is expected to drop 1.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2015, due mainly to seasonal factors, according to Digitimes Research. Meanwhile, end-market demand particularly for ...
Tags: IC Design Industry, LCD Driver
Cadence Design Systems Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has collaborated with Lumerical Solutions Inc of Vancouver, BC, Canada and PhoeniX B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands to jointly develop an integrated electronic/photonic design automation ...
Electronic hardware and software design solutions provider Mentor Graphics Corp of Wilsonville, OR, USA says that Xiamen San'an Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (San'an IC) of Xiamen Torch High-tech Industrial Development Zone, China has selected ...
Tags: San'an, Mentor Graphics, GaAs
Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China (which manufactures fiber-optic solutions and optical transceivers for communications networks) has launched a range of 5Mb RedLink fiber optic receivers with an extended temperature ...
Tags: Firecomms, Optical transceivers, IGBT driver
Hosted by Stephen Doughty (the Member of Parliament for the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency), an event in the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, has formally launched the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), formed at ...
Tags: IQE, compound semiconductor
Toshiba has announced the development of the next-generation TarfSOI (Toshiba advanced RF silicon-on-insulator) process, optimized for radio-frequency (RF) switch applications. Sample shipments of a new SP12T (single-pole 12-throw switch) ...
Tags: Toshiba, SOI-CMOS, RF switches
The photonic integrated circuit (PIC) market was $0.19bn in 2013 and is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.3% from 2015 to $1.3bn in 2022, according to the new market report 'Photonic IC Market - Global ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has launched a highly integrated, low-power-dissipation, small-form-factor single- ...
Tags: semiconductor, wireless networks
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy efficiency innovations, has introduced an array of new AEC-Q100-compliantintegrated circuits (ICs) optimized for implementation into next generation automobile designs. The NBA3N200/1/6S ...
For full-year fiscal 2015 (ending 2 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported record revenue of $3.26bn, up 42% on fiscal 2014's $2.29bn. For the fiscal ...
Tags: Skyworks, semiconductors