SIA president & CEO John Neuffer has issued a statement in support of the corporate tax reform framework released yesterday by leaders in the Trump Administration and Congress. The proposal is expected to be considered by Congress in the coming weeks. “Over the past three decades, the U.S. semiconductor industry has unleashed tremendous innovations that ...

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Intel is sampling a Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA and expects it to be broadly available in H1 2018.     The card enables architects and developers to quickly develop and deploy power-efficient acceleration of a variety of applications and workloads. This consists of three major elements: Intel-qualified FPGA acceleration platforms that ...

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August semiconductor sales were 23.9% up y-o-y and 4% up on Jul, says the SIA. August sales were $35 billion,  August 2016 sales were $28.2 billion and July sales were $33.6 billion. All major regional markets posted both year-to-year and month-to-month increases in August, and the Americas market led the way with growth of 39% ...

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Kemet has launched the KPS-MCC C0G High Temperature 200 Degree Celsius bulk capacitance solution for harsh environment applications. Developed by combining KEMET’s robust and proprietary C0G/NPO base metal electrode (BME) dielectric system with durable lead frame technology, these capacitors aare suitabl pe for demanding high temperature, high voltage and high vibration applications such as down-hole ...

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