Q3 billings for sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were $15.8 billion which was 5% down on Q2 but 11% higher than Q3 2017. The data are gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from over 95 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis. The quarterly billings data by region ...
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Demystifying EMC article for Electronics Weekly by James MacAlonan, EMC Product Manager of Rohde & Schwarz UK Ltd
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UnitedSiC has expanded its UF3C FAST series of silicon carbide mosfets to include parts with Kelvin contacts. Available in 650V and 1.2kV versions, they come in a TO-247-4L package. “The Kelvin package avoids gate ringing and false triggering which would otherwise require slowing of switching speeds to manage the large common source inductance of three-leaded ...
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Ultrahaptics has raised a $45 million Series C round. The new funding will support new product development and further B2B customer acquisition across global markets and industry sectors. The round was oversubscribed and will enable Ultrahaptics to further develop and commercialise its haptic technology in next generation user interfaces and experiences. The new funding is ...
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A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and One BioMed, an A*STAR spin-off have launched a S$9 million joint lab aimed at launching, within the next five years, a point-of-care diagnostic kit that can test for up to 20 types of infectious diseases simultaneously in just 20 minutes. Today, the spread of disease is accelerated by a ...
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Leti and Silvaco Are to create unified SPICE compact models for the design of ICs using nanowire and nanosheet technologies. The new predictive and physical compact model under development, Leti-NSP, builds on Leti’s 15 years of model development, including the Leti-UTSOI model for FD-SOI technology. The Leti-NSP compact model uses a novel methodology for the ...
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The Qualcomm-NXP takeover deal could have been back on the cards following the G20 meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi. The $44 billion deal fell through after the China government refused to ratify it even though the other national regulatory regimes had OK’d it. In Buenos Aires Xi is reported to have said that, if ...
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The ECB’s answer to PayPal called TIPS (TARGET Instant Payment Settlement) was launched last Friday with the first TIPS money transfer between an account holder at a French bank and one at a Spanish bank. TIPS enables payments and money transfers in under ten seconds costing a fifth of a euro by individuals and companies ...
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On Tuesday a meeting of EU finance ministers to agree a tax regime for digital companies is likely to be scuppered by objections from several countries. The French-led attempt to tax digital companies 3% on turnover is being resisted by Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Germany is also resisting the move by refusing ...
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