FTDI Chip is taking further steps to gain greater traction in the Far East. The company has made major investment into a creating a capacious, easy-to-navigate website that focusses specifically on the needs of customers located in the increasingly important markets that have emerged out of China. This comprehensive new online resource not only covers ...

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15 new fab projects in China are underway or have been announced since 2017, says SEMI, boosting spending on semiconductor fab equipment  to more than $12 billion, annually, by 2018. As a result, China is projected to be the top spending region in fab equipment by 2019, and is likely to approach record all-time levels ...

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The 63rd IEDM to be held December 2-6, 2017 at the San Francisco Hilton promises to be a memorable IEDM for its variety. Among the talks are presentations by Intel and Globalfoundries, which will each detail their forthcoming competing FinFET transistor technology platforms in a session on Wednesday morning.   “Those who attend IEDM 2017 ...

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NXP has come up with a scalable automotive computing  architecture. Called S32,  it offers a unified architecture of microcontrollers/microprocessors (MCU/MPU) and an identical software environment across application platforms. Automotive industry estimates reveal there are more lines of code in an advanced vehicle than a modern passenger aircraft. This complexity places carmakers and automotive suppliers under pressure ...

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Alibaba is to spend $15 billion on R&D over the next three years in a programme called Alibaba DAMO Academy. DAMO stands for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook. The programme is headed up  by Alibaba CTO Jeff Zhang. Initially, the Academy will focus on the opening of seven research labs in China (Beijing and Hangzhou), the United States ...

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SEMI forecasts that shipments of polished and epitaxial silicon wafers will grow by 8.2%  this year measured in square inches. This year shipments will total 11,448 million square inches; in 2018,  11,814 million square inches will be shipped and in 2019, shipments will total 12,235 million square inches. Total wafer shipments this year are expected ...

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sureCore, the Sheffield embedded SRAM specialist, has joined GloFo’s  FDXcelerator Partner Program and will make both their Low Power “PowerMiser” and Ultra Low Voltage “EverOn” SRAM offerings available on GloFlo’s 22nm FD-SOI process technology. PowerMiser delivers dynamic and static power savings exceeding 50 percent and 20 percent respectively. EverOn is the first commercially available SRAM to ...

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The LT8650S is a dual 4A, 42V input synchronous step-down switching regulator. It’s unique Silent Switcher2 architecture uses four internal input capacitors as well as two internal BST and a single INTVCC capacitor to minimize the area of the hot loops. Combined with very well controlled switching edges and an internal construction using copper pillars ...

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