Dozens of technologies are being developed for microLED assembly and pixel structures, says a report from Yole  Développment. Three fundamentals that anchor all those processes are: Alignment dominates assembly cycle times; Die size can’t get infinitely small; Epitaxy cost has already been through more than 20 years on the cost reduction curve. “MicroLED companies must ...

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MEMS will account for 73% of the $9.3 billion semiconductor sensor market in 2018 and about 47% of the projected 24.1 billion total sensor units to be shipped globally this year, according to IC Insights’ 2018 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes. Revenues for MEMS-built sensors—including accelerometers, gyroscope devices, pressure ...

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Imagination and Chips&Media of Korea are ensuring that Imagination’s GPU IP and Chips&Media Video Codec IP are available as integrated and tested solutions that work together to provide system-level benefits, including a range of compression technologies, such as Imagination’s PVRIC lossless compression. The IPs are designed around compatible formats and drivers and will enable customers ...

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Front-end fab capacity in China will account for 16% of the world’s  capacity this year, and to 20% by the end of 2020, says SEMI. China will top the rest of the world in fab investment in 2020 with more than $20 billion in spending, driven by memory and foundry projects funded by both multinational ...

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Toshiba has started mass production of its “TPWR7940PB” and “TPW1R104PB”, 40V N-channel power MOSFETs using DSOP Advance (WF) packages with double-sided cooling capability. The TPWR7940PB is a 40V max 0.79mΩ MOSFET in DSOP Advance(WF)L package, and the TPW1R104PB is a 40V max 1.14mΩ MOSFET in DSOP Advance(WF)M package. Both devices are based upon the latest ...

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Farnell element14 has awarded the top prize in its University IoT Challenge to University of West London (UWL) academic Dr Ying Zhang, senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University’s School of Computing and Engineering. Zhang devised ear defenders which can dampen background noise, while amplifying important sounds such as speech and alarms or sirens. Powered ...

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Oxford University researchers have developed a molecular hopper which can move single strands of DNA through a protein nanotube. “Being able to control molecular motion is the holy grail of building nanoscale machines,” says  Professor Hagan Bayley of Oxford University’s Department of Chemistry,  “being able to process single molecules of DNA under precise chemical control ...

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