Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - The tiny satellite separates useless data from quality content before beaming information down to Earth.

Enterprise -- Data Center Knowledge - Platform building is a well-known path, but is being part of AMD's platform better for Xilinx than fleshing out its own already promising one?

Aspencore -- EDN - Most electronics that go inside the car cabin need to be able to operate at up to 85C without forced-air cooling. Product qualification requires showing that no component or trace on the board is getting too hot, even at maximum ambient temperature....

Aspencore -- IoT Times - Analog Devices has made available an on-demand webinar that explores liquid analysis measurement and how recent developments has come to improve overall water quality.

From the course's description:

Water makes life on earth possible, so environmental...

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - RF power semiconductors, using WBG materials, solve many technical challenges in 5G applications, bridging the gap with older, Si-based technologies.



Advances in 5G technologies are driving new technical challenges in the semiconductor...

Electronics -- TI - Behind the Wheel - Automotive body electronics systems use electric motors to enhance comfort and convenience for vehicle occupants whether it's adjusting the perfect seat position or easily opening the trunk. Metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect...

Media -- eeNews Europe - A Design Review service uses expertise from ARM and Mentor to speed up verification of complex system on chip (SoC) devices ARM has been working with Mentor on a functional verification review service for designers of complex chips...

Media -- eeNews Europe - Analog Devices is working with NEC on a massive MIMO radio for an open O-RAN 5G system for Rakuten Mobile The joint design of a 5G Network Massive MIMO Antenna Radio Unit for Rakuten Mobile uses ADI's fourth-generation wideband...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - TSMC, in May 2020, had announced that it intends to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in the United States TSMC today announced consolidated revenue of NT$356.43 billion during 3Q 2020. The company also announced net...

Media -- Semiconductor Today - Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA says that its full product line of high-power semiconductor lasers is now available on its 6-inch gallium arsenide (GaAs) platform...

Media -- Evertiq - After global LED giant Cree divested its lighting business in 2019, the company has announced its plan to sell its LED business to SMART Global Holdings (SGH) for USD 300 million. TrendForce indicates that Chinese manufacturers have quickly...

Justmeans -- Kudos to @onsemi's Lana Hall who was selected for @AZForward's 2020-21 Emerging Sustainability Leaders program! This talented group is ready to learn and apply new skills to advance #sustainability in their organizations...

U.S. News -- Taiwanese contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said on Thursday it hoped a business espionage lawsuit...

U.S. News -- Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics is expecting strong demand from the car and mobile phone industries to boost sales...

U.S. News -- Xilinx Inc forecast current-quarter revenue largely above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, bolstered by rising sales of its chips to...

Aspencore -- EETimes - There may never be one, single, most-effective way to implement sensing technology for assisted driving systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles (AV). The magic number might instead be six - as in six fundamental considerations that every auto...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Autonomous vehicles need sensors such as camera, radar, and LiDAR units to see their surroundings. AVs also need computing power and artificial intelligence to analyze multidimensional and sometimes multisource data streams to provide...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - With Trimension, NXP offers one of the broadest UWB portfolios enabling solutions for vehicles, smartphones, and IoT devices.



At NXP Connects 2020, the company's online conference, NXP is introducing Trimension, a new concept brand of Ultra-Wide...

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - Formula E is a new category of racing cars that highlights power electronics' innovation driving the automotive towards a fully electric future.



Formula-E cars require the latest sustainable and - most importantly - high-performance...

Aspencore -- EETimes - GlobalFoundries has a unified growth vision for the whole company as well as local strategies to develop its major manufacturing clusters in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. The industry's third largest contract maker of semiconductors believes that...

Aspencore -- EDN - Power Integrations' LYT6078C driver IC enables 90-W LED ballasts in an isolated flyback technology following a boost power factor correction (PFC) stage. Part of the LYTSwitch-6 family of safety-isolated LED drivers, the GaN-powered LTY6078C integrates...

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Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan's IC suppliers still see strong order pull-ins for chips supporting production of 5G phones and Wi-Fi 6 network devices in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to industry sources.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwanese IC design houses have mixed feelings about good sales of the new iPhone series, which could limit sales for 5G Android phones in the short term, according to industry sources.

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Texas Instruments' fourth quarter outlook is for revenue in the range of $3.41 billion to $3.69 billion Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has reported third quarter revenue of $3.82 billion. The company's net income in the quarter...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Sahasra Group will be using this new company to package NAND flash ICs at a greenfield plant in Bhiwadi Rajasthan located 70 KMs from Delhi Sahasra Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd (SSPL), a Sahasra Group Company, has become India's first...

Media -- DIGITIMES - United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) has said that it has submitted a proposal for settling soon a business espionage lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against the company.

Media -- ELE Times - The MAX78000 low-power neural network accelerated microcontroller from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) moves artificial intelligence (AI) to the edge without performance compromises in battery-powered internet of things (IoT)...

Media -- New Electronics - Microchip has acquired Toronto-based LegUp Computing, expanding its Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based edge compute solution stack with a high-level synthesis (HLS) tool.

Media -- FierceElectronics - Intel shares tank 10% on weak data center revenues in 3Q

Electronics -- Intel - Intel Corporation's third-quarter 2020 earnings news release and presentation are available on the company's Investor Relations website. The earnings conference call for investors begins at 2 p.m. PDT today; a public webcast will be available...

Yahoo Finance -- Texas Instruments' (TXN) third-quarter 2020 results reflect strong momentum across personal electronics and automotive markets.

Electronics -- Xilinx Xclusive - Earlier today the MLPerf organization released its latest round of machine learning (ML) inference benchmark results. Launched in 2018, MLPerf is made up of an open-source community of over 23 submitting organizations with the mission...

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - Companies Form Joint Program to Develop Industry's First Complete and Proven Equipment Solution for Die-Based Hybrid Bonding Companies Form Joint Program to Develop Industry's First Complete and Proven Equipment Solution for Die-Based...

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - Geneva, October 22, 2020 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, reported U.S. GAAP financial results for the third quarter ended September 26,...

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - SOITEC REPORTS FY'21 SECOND QUARTER REVENUES

Business Wire -- Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) today announced the PI3WVR628 3-lane 2:1 switch measuring just 1.7mm x 2.4mm x 0.5mm. The MIPI(r)-compliant switch supports high speed (HS) and low power (LP) connections to CSI/DSI, D-PHY and C-PHY modules. With its...

Business Wire -- MaxLinear announces Q3 2020 preliminary financial results exceeding prior expectations.

Business Wire -- XILINX REPORTS SECOND QUARTER FISCAL YEAR 2021 RESULTS

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, announced the Lattice CrossLink(tm)-NX FPGA for embedded vision and AI applications won the Best FPGA Award in the Technology & Product Innovation category at the 2020...

Business Wire -- Arm today announced that it has been recognized by TSMC as a recipient of the OIP Partner of the Year award for its best-in-class Processor IP for the sixth consecutive year. "Arm is honored to once again receive the OIP Partner of the Year award for...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - SK hynix is the sole investor with initial capital of $55 in million in Gauss Labs through 2022. The group has been promoting various types of AI businesses with its affiliates SK hynix Inc announced that it has invested in Gauss...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - STMicroelectronics noted that the revenue performance was due to significantly better than expected market conditions throughout the quarter STMicroelectronics (STM) has reported U.S. GAAP financial results for the third quarter...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Sentelic, which specializes in fan motor controller ICs for servers, will be listed on the Taiwan over-the-counter (OTC) stock market in mid- or late-November.

Media -- New Electronics - Mentor, a Siemens business, has announced a partnership with Arm to help integrated circuit (IC) designers optimise and streamline the functional verification of their Arm-based designs.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Semiconductor process development is no easy task, with each generation of devices more difficult and expensive to create. Traditional cycles of build-and-test development are becoming obsolete, since they are too expensive...

Media -- DIGITIMES - One of the world's main IC industry clusters is being formed at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), where TSMC operates its major manufacturing site for 5nm process technology.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan-based IC design houses continue to see their downstream clients including distributors stockpile aggressively, and plan to raise their quotes to constrain demand, according to industry sources.

Media -- FierceElectronics - Xilinx revenues improve on auto chip sales

Media -- eBOM - Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions, today announced a new high-reliability (HiRel) isolation partnership with Teledyne e2v HiRel, a leading provider of high-performance, high-reliability semiconductors...