Toshiba is sampling a 3D NAND TLC memory which uses TSVs. Shipments of prototypes for development purposes started in June, and product samples are scheduled for release in the second half of 2017. Devices with TSV technology have vertical electrodes and vias that pass through silicon dies to provide connections, an architecture that realizes high ...

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Peratech, the Richmond force-sensing specialist, has joined with US remote control company SMK Electronics to put Peratech’s technology into the SMK product line. Peratech calls its technology Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTC). Incorporating QTC force-sensing technology into a remote control improves the experience of using capacitive buttons, touchpads or directional pads, by requiring a press-with-force to ...

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Micron says that DRAM production has resumed at its Inotera fab in Taiwan. Last week, DRAMeXchange, reported that a malfunction in the nitrogen supply resulted in the loss of 60,000 wafers which represents 5.5% of global capacity. Micron called it a ‘minor facility event’. “We expect no material impact to the business or on our ...

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Imec has developed an electrically functional solution for the 5nm back-end-of-line (BEOL). The solution is a full dual-damascene module in combination with multi-patterning and multi-blocking. Scaling boosters and aggressive design rules pave the way to even smaller dimensions. As R&D progresses towards the 5nm technology node, the tiny Cu wiring schemes in the chips’ BEOL ...

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Intersil has launched  an HD 1080p LCD video processor with analogue video decoder, two scalers and MIPI-CSI2 SoC interface. The TW8844 ensures that rearview camera systems are compliant with the U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS-111) for preventing injury or death caused by backover accidents. It enables the migration from analogue to digital camera ...

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RF power demand – pushed by the technologies LDMOS, GaAs, GaN and SiGe and pulled by 5G base-station upgrades and small cell implementations – will command a  9.8% CAGR market between 2016 and 2022 growing from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion, says Yole.   “At Yole we estimate the market size of telecom infrastructure including base ...

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