Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Media -- Semiconductor Today - Rochester Institute of Technology is upgrading its Semiconductor and Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory (SMFL) to further...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The global DRAM memory industry dropped 9% in output value sequentially in the second quarter, while the NAND flash sector stayed...

Media -- DIGITIMES - After reaching record-high sales in the last two years, the microcontroller (MCU) market slid lower in the first half of 2019 because...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Micron Technology has unveiled a new 12-inch fab at its manufacturing site for NAND flash memory in Singapore, and expects the facility...

Media -- New Electronics - The MCU market is expected to contract by 6% this year, according to semiconductor market analysts, IC Insights. The fall is...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Driven by Moore's law, memory and logic semiconductor manufacturers pursue higher transistor...

Media -- FierceElectronics - Personal electronics and industrial applications make up more than half of power management IC market, analyst says.

Media -- Evertiq - According to investigations by DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, quote trends for various products, including commodity DRAM,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved capital appropriations of about US$6.5 billion for the...

Media -- Evertiq - The companies have entered into a multi-year agreement where Cree will produce and supply its Wolfspeed silicon carbide wafers to ON...

Media -- Evertiq - worldwide sales of semiconductors reached USD 98.2 billion during the second quarter of 2019, a small increase of 0.3% over the previous...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Mobile SoC specialist MediaTek saw its July revenues slip 0.98% sequentially to NT$20.69 billion (US$658.2 million).

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC is expected to enjoy substantial revenue growth starting August with the momentum to continue through the last quarter of 2019,...

Media -- Evertiq - After flying high for two years, DRAM sales growth is forecast to rank last in 2019, worst among all IC categories; NAND flash sales...

Business Wire -- Accelerating demand for embedded security in industrial and automotive segments is driving the market for technologies such as secure...

Business Wire -- Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today...

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor to Host Webinar: "Supporting MIPI in Embedded Vision System Design Using FPGA"

Business Wire -- Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within...

Business Wire -- Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced...

Media -- Reuters - Companies - European shares churned higher on Friday, boosted by positive sentiment after China hinted on plans to spur economic growth...

Life -- Phys.org - Wearable electronic human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are an emerging class of devices to facilitate human and machine interactions....

Electronics -- NVIDIA Newsroom -

Electronics -- NXP Blog - There are wide and varied applications for machine learning; however, few are as compelling as those in public safety. Recently, I...

Electronics -- Diodes Inc - Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) today announced the AP3917 family of universal AC-DC, non-isolated buck (step-down) power switchers...

Electronics -- TI - Think. Innovate - Kiran as grown up in a single small room that does not have running water. But he has a goal: He wants to be an engineer....

Electronics -- NXP Blog - At NXP, our development teams spend a lot of time thinking about what we, as human beings, do in a day - and why. We look at what...

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Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Micron Technology has opened its expanded chip plant in Singapore that now supports advanced 3D NAND technology and the Singapore...

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - Micron Leads Industry in Delivering the Benefits of 1z Nanometer Technology to Customers Micron Leads Industry in Delivering...

Globe Newswire -- Ideal Power Inc. (NASDAQ: IPWR), a semiconductor and power conversion technology company, will effect a one-for-ten reverse stock split of its...

Globe Newswire -- Fabless power semiconductor company Helix Semiconductors has announced the hiring of Philip Crawley as vice president of engineering. With more...

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Over the past month, AMD let fly with two-thirds of its 7nm product lineup. Both the desktop and server spaces have now been refreshed...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Last year Broadcom, a chipmaker, raised eyebrows when it acquired CA Technologies, an enterprise software company with a broad...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - An initially downbeat, but longer term upbeat forecast for the global microcontroller (MCU) market has been issued by IC Insights....

Media -- Reuters - Companies - Osram said on Monday it

would consider a takeover by Austrian sensor maker AMS that trumps a competing bid by Bain and...

Think -- Gartner Blog Network - We're just past the Flash Memory Summit, where my colleague Joe Unsworth got to quiz a load of companies about how the...

Enterprise -- Network World News - Xilinx has launched a new FPGA card, the Alveo U50, that it claims can match the performance of a GPU in areas of artificial...

Globe Newswire -- Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading semiconductor supplier of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions,...

Taipei Times --

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported July consolidated revenues slipped 1.3% sequentially but grew 14%...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The global semiconductor market is set to enter a dynamic new phase of growth, as the era of 5G network looms around the corner....

Media -- New Electronics - Diodes Inc is set to buy Lite-On Semiconductor of Taiwan in a deal that values the company at over $420m.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Silicon wafer company GlobalWafers has turned conservative about its sales outlook this year, citing unfavorable macro factors affecting...

Media -- Reuters - Companies - Apple supplier AMS AG on

Sunday said it plans to make an all-cash takeover bid for German lighting group Osram, offering...

Business Wire -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced 108 megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL Bright...

CSR@Intel -- By Pia Wilson-Body, President, Intel Foundation

"One Intel" is not a bumper sticker, it's not a slogan, it is action that exemplifies how we...

Media -- DIGITIMES - China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post an up to 2% sequential increase in...

Media -- TEXASTECHPULSE - Plano-based semiconductor maker Diodes Incorporate has acquired Taiwan-based Lite-On Semiconductor, in a deal worth $428M, Diodes...

Media -- PowerPulse.net - Microchip Technology announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019, including net sales of $1.323 billion, down 0.5%...

Media -- eeNews Europe - Global sales of semiconductors in the second quarter were 16.8 percent down on the same quarter a year before, according...