Sales of chip manufacturing equipment rose 37% to $56.6 billion last year, says SEMI. 2016 sales were $41.24 billion. Korea claimed the largest market for new semiconductor equipment for the first time, shattering all previous regional spending records with $17.95 billion in equipment sales. Taiwan fell to the second position with sales of $11.49 billion. Annual ...

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Cisco has invested in Nantero the CNT memory company. The investment brings to eight the number of strategic partners backing Nantero. The others are: Schlumberger, Dell, Kingston Technology, CFT Capital and three undisclosed. The amount of capital raised by Nantero now tops $120 million. “Having global leaders such as Cisco Investments and Dell Technologies Capital invest ...

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Farnell Element 14 is offering customers in Europe the opportunity to pre-order the new 6½ digit Keithley DMM6500 for immediate shipment on 16 April 2018.  The DMM6500 is a modern Bench/System digital multimeter (DMM) ideally suited for design engineers and production test engineers, delivering more measurement functionality, best-in-class measurement insight and a price that will ...

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 Silvaco, the EDA and IP provider,  and Silicon Catalyst,the dedicated silicon incubator,  are teamiing up to provide silicon proven IP. Silvaco is making its extensive portfolio of IP available to Silicon Catalyst Portfolio Companies. Under the agreement, Silvaco’s IP blocks and subsystems are available at no cost to eligible Silicon Catalyst Portfolio Companies.  This agreement ...

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ST’s  STLQ020 LDO voltage regulator relieves the familiar trade-offs between quiescent current, output power, dynamic response, and package size, to give designers extra freedom. By combining small size with high performance and energy efficiency, the STLQ020 is suitable  for use in battery-powered consumer products. The chip helps extend battery life in IoT endpoints such as smart ...

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  Maxim has launched low power MCUs based on the Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU processor which provide designers the means to develop advanced applications under restrictive power constraints.6 The MAX32660 offers access to 256KB flash and 96KB SRAM, has power performance down to 50 µW/MHz and measures 1.6mm x 1.6mm in WLP package. The MAX32652 ...

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Toshiba will sell its chip unit to a consortium headed up by Bain and Hynix if it gets Chinese regulatory approval, but not if it doesn’t. This seems to be the stance of new CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani. “We will maintain our stance and wait unless drastic changes occur,” says Kurumatani. Asked what he meant by ...

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US consumer groups are calling for stricter safety standards on driverless cars being tested on public roads. The AV START Act, currently before the US Senate, could be used to incorporate standards says consumer group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. It is proposed that there should be performance standards set up, that there should ...

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The YouTube shooter turns out to be a 39 year-old woman of Iranian descent, Nasim Aghdam, who was a vegan body-builder who had complained about YouTube doctoring her videos. “There is no equal growth opportunity on YouTube or any other video sharing site,” Aghdam wrote about YouTube on her own web-site. Aghdam shot and wounded ...

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