Alibaba Cloud chooses ST and Xilinx

Alibaba is choosing chip suppliers for its Alibaba Cloud unit. ST has been chosen to supply building blocks for connecting IoT nodes and has made its ARM Cortex-M MCU portfolio compatible with Amaxon Cloud’s AliOS operating system. Beyond processing, designers will get access to ST’s complete portfolio covering all the key building blocks for the ...

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Samsung Electronics’ CEO resigns – even as company predicts surge in profit

Samsung Electronics’ management turmoil continued this week with the resignation of its chief executives, even as the business said it expected to post record third-quarter profits. Kwon Oh-hyun, who has been with the business for 32 years, resigned citing an “unprecedented crisis” at the South Korean tech giant. He will step down as chief executive and ...

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Number of 300mm production fabs worldwide to grow from 98 to 123 by 2021.

The number of 300mm wafer production-class fabs in operation worldwide is expected to increase each year between now and 2021 to reach 123 compared to 98 in 2016, according to the IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2017-2021 report. As shown in Figure 1, 300mm wafers represented 63.6% of worldwide IC fab capacity at the end ...

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Imec and ADI to develop low-power sensors

Imec and ADI have entered a broad research agreement on sensor technology with two immediate projects already underway. One of these is, says Imec’s Kathleen Philips “the development of a low-power sensor for highly accurate indoor localization in the context of smart building or smart industry solutions. Concretely, we want this sensor to localize objects with ...

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Semi market will be worth $411bn this year

The chip market will be worth $411 billion this year says Gartner, representing an increase of 19.7% from 2016. This will be the strongest growth since the 2010 recovery from the financial crisis when revenue increased by 31.8%. “Memory continues to lead the semiconductor market higher and is expected to increase 57 percent in 2017 as ...

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GloFo launches AutoPro

Globalfoundries has put together a package of process and packaging technologies for the sutomotive market called called AutoPro, AutoPro technologies include SiGe, FD-SOI, CMOS and FinFET nodes, ASIC design services, packaging and IP. GF’s CMOS and RF solutions target sensors (radar, lidar, cameras), ADAS and autonomous processing (sensor fusion and AI compute) and body and ...

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Auto telematics growing at 17% CAGR

Automotive telematics revenues will grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% to more than $6.7 billion by the end of 2023, according to IHS Markit,. IHS Markit estimates that more than 33 million light vehicles equipped with some form of telematics were produced in 2016 globally. It is expected that production of such light vehicles ...

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