Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Ice Lake-SP is finally ready for prime time. Intel's latest server CPU will debut in-market to power Intel's 3rd Generation of Xeon Scalable processors, and close some performance gaps vis-a-vis AMD's Epyc family.Intel's 2nd Generation Xeon...

Tech -- Digital Trends - The transition to 10nm has taken Intel seven years. But with 14nm behind them, the road ahead is finally clear.

Media -- FierceElectronics - Chip shortage: How soon is relief possible?

Media -- eBOM - The STMicroelectronics MasterGaN4* power packages integrate two symmetrical 650V gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors with 225mohm RDS(on), alongside optimized gate drivers and circuit protection to simplify the design of high-efficiency power-conversion...

Business Wire -- Analog Devices Announces 16-Channel, Mixed-Signal Front-End Digitizer for Reference Design Integration

Business Wire -- Analog Devices Advances Climate Strategy and Commits to Net Zero Emissions by 2050

Media -- Design And Reuse - Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 10.4% in 2020

Media -- ELE Times - A Good Leader enthrals every nook of the industry with performance and ability. From aviation to railways, engineering to medicine, civil services to politics, women leaders have contributed efficiently for good management and advocacy. Companies...

Media -- eeNews Europe - This white paper examines the European Union's declared goal of enabling a wafer fab to be operating in Europe with 2nm process capability by the end of the decade. The author concludes that while this may be technically...

Media -- Evertiq - In response to consumers' growing emphasis on camera performance as a major selling point of smartphones, smartphone brands have successively released multi-camera handsets to target this rising demand and seize market shares, in turn driving...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Network and communication IC supplier Realtek Semiconductor reportedly is currently unable to fulfill its orders for audio+LAN chips from a number of clients, affecting the production of end-market devices such as Chromebooks, according to...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Persistently strong demand for MOSFET chips and niche-type DRAM have kept backend specialists including Walton Advanced Engineering, ChipMos Technologies and GEM Services running at capacity utilization of over 90% with order visibility through...

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC's bold US$100 billion capex plan for the next three years has greatly boosted the confidence of its ecosystem partners about bright prospects for the semiconductor industry, inspiring them to carry out capacity expansions, according to...

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC is likely to provide a revision to its capex target for 2021 at its upcoming earnings conference call scheduled for April 15, according to market observers.

Media -- DIGITIMES - The short supply of automobile-use Ethernet chips from Taiwan-based Realtek Semiconductor is unlikely to result in significant impacts on the global automotive supply chains, according to industry observers.

Media -- Design And Reuse - Dialog Shareholders Approve Resolutions related to the Acquisition by Renesas Electronics Corporation of Dialog Semiconductor Plc

Media -- SemiMedia - STMicroelectronics, Atos, Dassault Systemes, Renault Group and Thales recently announced a collaboration to create the Software Republique, a new ecosystem for innovation in intelligent mobility. By pooling their complementary expertise, the...

Media -- Evertiq - Renesas say that the N3 Building (300mm line) clean room at Naka Factory resumed operations on Friday April 9.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Chipmakers are set to roll out Wi-Fi 6E chip solutions in the second half of the year, bringing new business opportunities for IC test and certification labs including Sporton International.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan-based DRAM maker Nanya Technology has reported net profit hiked 192.7% sequentially to NT$2.71 billion (US$95 million) in the first quarter of 2021. EPS for the quarter came to NT$0.88.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan-based Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), an 8-inch foundry for specialty ICs, saw its first-quarter revenue increase 5.3% sequentially to a record high of NT$9.18 billion (US$322.4 million).

Life -- Phys.org - It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron spin is used to store, process and transfer information in quantum computers. It has long been the goal of scientists to be able to use spin-based quantum information...

Globe Newswire -- AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) announced today that stockholders voted to approve their respective proposals relating to the pending acquisition of Xilinx by AMD. The acquisition will bring together two industry leaders with complementary...

Business Wire -- Kingston Embedded Memory Solutions Featured on NXP Reference Boards

Business Wire -- Analog Devices and MDA Collaborate to Provide Electronic Beam Forming Technology for the Telesat Lightspeed Constellation

Business Wire -- United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) ("UMC"), today reported unaudited net sales for the month of March 2021. Revenues for March 2021 Period 2021 2020 Y/Y Change Y/Y (%) March 16,619,555 14,570,408 +2,049,147 +14.06% Jan.-Mar. 47,097,012...

Business Wire -- Seoul Semiconductor recorded the highest first quarter consolidated revenue at KRW 312 billion increased by 28.3% YoY.

Business Wire -- MaxLinear's Spirit Grid Software and G.hn Solution addresses the ever-growing demand for high-speed communication in the IIoT sector.

Media -- Robotics and Automation News - The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is to meet with officials in the administration of newly elected president of the United States, Joe Biden, to discuss the ongoing global shortage in chips, which is affecting...

Media -- Electronics Maker - India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the premier body representing the Indian Electronic System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) industry, appointed Rajeev Khushu, Director Corporate Affairs...

Media -- ELE Times - Microprocessor vs Microcontroller, often in schools and colleges, we find it difficult to spot the difference between microcontrollers and microprocessors.

Well, these two complicated terms are the soul and core of programmable electronics....

Media -- SemiMedia - According to reports, SK Hynix may sign a 10-year or longer long-term agreement with auto parts supplier Robert Bosch GmbH to supply automotive-grade memory chips.



The report quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that SK Hynix...

Media -- New Electronics - Arm subsidiary, Pelion, the connected IoT device service provider, has announced a partnership with Johnson Controls, a leading developer of smart and sustainable buildings.

Media -- EE World - The FET-Jet calculator by UnitedSiC is a tool for finding the most optimized SiC device in the early stages of power design.

UnitedSiC recently released the FET-Jet calculator, a tool that helps engineers in the early design stage find the...

Media -- The Next Web - The Intel microprocessor company was founded in 1968. It's bushwhacked a trail of technology and innovation in the decades since to become one of the leading manufacturers of computer chips worldwide. But never mind all that. Because we...

Media -- All About Circuits - While fabrication grounds to a halt and the electronics supply chain shutters, chip manufacturers and researchers are still hard at work developing better memory technology for enhanced compute potential.

Media -- eeNews Europe - The STMicroelectronics B-L462E-CELL1 Discovery kit brings together the critical hardware and software building blocks including an embedded SIM (eSIM) to quickly develop power-conscious cellular IoT devices. STMicroelectronics has...

Media -- EE World - The B-L462E-CELL1 Discovery kit from STMicroelectronics lets to add cellular connectivity to your IoT device before committing to designing in the meodem.

When adding cellular connectivity to an IoT device, you'd like first to demonstrate the...

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Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - The STMicroelectronics B-L462E-CELL1 Discovery kit brings together the critical hardware and software building blocks, including GSMA-certified embedded SIM (eSIM) to quickly develop power-conscious...

Media -- Electronics360 - The deal will help with the ongoing automotive semiconductor shortage.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - When most people hear the term "counterfeiting," their knee-jerk reaction is to think of currency, the counterfeiting of which is as old as the concept of money itself. Around 400 BC, for example, metal coins in Greece...

Media -- Semiconductor Today - MACOM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) says that the initial purchaser in its offering of $400m...

Media -- SemiMedia - Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today introduced the world's best AEC-Q101 qualified p-channel -80 V TrenchFET(r) MOSFET. With the lowest on-resistance of any -80 V p-channel device, the new Vishay Siliconix SQJA81EP increases power density and...

Media -- SemiMedia - According to the supply chain, Analog Devices sent a Distributor Notice to some of its distributors on April 7 stating that it will adjust the prices of some of its older vintage products.



The notice pointed out that ADI has experienced...

Media -- Evertiq - The stockholders of both companies voted to approve their respective proposals relating to the pending acquisition of Xilinx by AMD.

Media -- DIGITIMES - MediaTek and Qualcomm may be the dominant players in the 5G smartphone SoC sector, but Chinese phone vendors Oppo and Xiaomi are mounting a challenge by developing their own chips. Shortages plaguing the semidoncutor industry are sending firms...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Kingston's discrete memory and storage solutions were also embedded on NXP's previous-generation i.MX 6 and i.MX 7 series processor boards Kingston started its embedded memory business in 2010 to address the then-growing trend toward...

Media -- eBOM - Maxim Integrated describes itself as a company that makes "innovative and high-performance analog and mixed-signal products and technologies [that] make systems smaller and smarter." For those who have followed the company's history, it is also...

Media -- Evertiq - The Japanese semiconductor manufacturer is reportedly set to shift some production from its fire damaged Naka fab to a facility in the southwestern prefecture of Ehime.