ST had Q2 revenues of $2.27 billion up 18% on Q2 2017. Gross margin was 40% and profit was $261 million. It expects Q3 revenues to show growth of 10% to about $2.5 billion. The company’s growth target for the year is between 14 and 17% growth.  “We are growing significantly in the third and ...

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Imec has achieved  a record result for its 4-terminal Perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic cell. With a power conversion efficiency of 27.1%. The imec  cell beats the most efficient standalone silicon solar cell. Further careful engineering of the Perovskite material will bring efficiencies over 30% in reach. Perovskite microcrystals are a promising material system to make high-performance ...

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Tsinghua Unigroup is to buy connector, inlay and antenna specialist Linxens of France for $2.6 billion, reports Reuters. The deal still has to be approved by French and German regulators. Following objections by the US regulators to a string of proposed takeovers, the Chinese have reduced investment in the US by 75% and have spent ...

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C-SKY Microsystems  a China-based semiconductor company acquired by the Alibaba Group in April, has licensed UltraSoC’s embedded analytics technology for use in C-SKY’s SoCs. The companies plan a long-term partnership, with the first products targeted at sophisticated artificial intelligence-based applications. C-SKY will employ UltraSoC’s embedded analytics technology to enable advanced product developments based on its own ...

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DARPA, the US Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to work with  research teams from industry and academia under DARPA’s $1.5 billion Electronics Research Initiative (ERI) to boost long-term semiconductor research. The partnerships will target advances in semiconductor circuit design, materials, and systems architectures. ERI is divided into three main research thrust areas – ...

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June billings of $2.48 billion for semiconductor manufacturing equipment were 8% lower than May’s 2018 $2.7 billion, and is 8.1% higher than June 2017 billings of $2.3 billion. “Global billings of North American equipment manufacturers declined for the current month by 8% from the historic high but is still 8% higher than billings for the same ...

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Marvell has opened an EMC lab. The testing facility is CISPR 25 qualified and Delivers an in-house capability to perform a wide range of emission, immunity and ESD testing. With this facility, Marvell’s automotive Ethernet products can be designed into system solutions that meet the EMC challenges faced by automotive manufacturers and help shorten the time-to-market. ...

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MEMS timing specislist  SiTime and Intel are to work together on integrating timing for Intel’s 5G multi-mode radio modems, Intel’s 4G chips, and its  millimeter-wave wireless, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GNSS products. SiTime’s MEMS timing solutions enhance system performance in the presence of stressors such as vibration, high temperature, and rapid thermal transients. Such stressors can ...

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