February’s semiconductor sales were 21% up on the $30.47 billion sales of February 2017 at $36.8 billion, but 2.2% down on January’s $37.6 billion, according to the SIA. “The global semiconductor market continued to demonstrate substantial and consistent growth in February, notching its 19th consecutive month of year-to-year sales increases and growing by double-digit percentages ...

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KEMET  has expanded its ESD rated ceramic capacitor series into a complete product portfolio. Automotive and commercial grades are now available in EIA 0402, 0603, 0805 and 1206 case sizes with voltage ratings of 16 to 250 VDC. These devices provide miniaturization and enhanced flexibility to optimize ESD suppression, RF filtering, blocking, sensing, and circuit ...

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Kyocera is suing German automotive component supplier Preh for infringement of its haptic feedback patents. The lawsuit, in a Dusseldorf court, says that Kyocera has been creating haptic technologies through its own R&D efforts since 2008. Kyocera says that, utilising ergonomics and virtual reality technology that Kyocera has developed over the years as well as its ...

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 Imec and substrate materials  specialist Qromis have developed  enhancement mode p-GaN power devices on 200mm engineered Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE)-matched substrates, processed on Imec’s silicon pilot line. The substrates are offered by Qromis as commercial 200mm QST substrates as part of their patented product portfolio. Today, GaN-on-Si technology is the industry standard platform for commercial ...

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The 4G/5G spectrum auction raised £1.36 billion, which was more than expected. O2 spent £524 million on two blocks of spectrum – one in the 2.3GHz band which will be used to boost 4G services and another in the 3.4GHz band which will be used for 5G. EE bought a block in the 3.4GHz band ...

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Microsemi has had its cesium clocks certified to the G.811.1 recommendation (known as enhanced Primary Reference Clocks, or ePRC) from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) which raises the bar for frequency accuracy by an order of magnitude from 1x10E-11 to 1x10E-12. Microsemi’s cesium frequency standards 5071A, TimeCesium 4400 and TimeCesium 4500 with ePRC compliance meet ...

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Samsung Electronics forecasts a $14.7 billion Q1 profit – 57.6% up on Q1 2017. Q1 revenues are expected to be up 18.7% y-o-y at $56.4 billion. The semiconductor division is expected to contribute $10 billion of the overall $14.7 billion profit on the back of the surge in memory ASPs and a reduction in memory ...

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