The top-15 semiconductor companies’ sales are forecast to jump by 13% in 2020 compared to 2019, says IC Insights, more than twice the expected total semiconductor industry increase of 6%. Last year, the top-15 semiconductor suppliers registered a collective 15% decline in sales. All of the top-15 companies are forecast to have semiconductor sales of ...
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The Q3 semiconductor market totaled $114 billion, up 11% from Q2 says WSTS. The Q3 growth was the highest since 11.6% in 3Q16. The strong Q3 growth follows a 2.1% decline in Q2 versus Q1. The second quarter is normally a healthy growth quarter, averaging 4% over the last eight years and the strong Q3 ...
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Researchers from COSIC, an imec research group at the University of Leuven in Belgium, have discovered major security flaws in the keyless entry system of the Tesla Model X. The same researchers hacked the Tesla Model S keyless entry system and now detail how the security measures implemented in the more recent Tesla Model X ...
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The horticultural LED market has become one of the fastest-growing lighting markets in 2020, says TrendForce, with revenue expected to reach $158 million in 2020, a 39.7% increase YoY. There are two pressing issues that need to be addressed in the indoor agricultural industry: increasing crop yield and decreasing lighting equipment cost. Major horticultural LED ...
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The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite has been successfully launched into orbit around Earth. With a SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully completing the launch, the new satellite – the latest in a series of satellites developed jointly by Europe and the USA – is intended to track rising sea levels using the latest radar altimetry technology. ...
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October equipment billings of $2.64 billion were up 26.9% y-o-y, reports SEMI, however they were 3.7% down on September’s $2.74 billion. October 2019 billings were $2?08 billion.. “Following the record-breaking September results, billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers continue to show strong results in October,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “the coming months should ...
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A new whitepaper on Electronics Weekly covers how ON-Semi USB-C Programmable power supplies can tackle 5G smartphone fast charging demands. With the emergence of 5G technology, the telecommunications industry is taking significant strides in advancing wireless architectures. Despite the ever increasing capacity of Li-ion batteries, the rate of charging for these larger batteries is still ...
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A polycrysalline diamond heat spreading material with thermal conductivity many times that of copper was introduced by De Beers subsidiary Element Six in 2019, and missed it. This is far from the only similar material to exist, but this one has the highest thermal conductivity of anything that Element Six has released commercially: 2,200W/m.K (Wm-1K-1, written ...
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Triad RF Systems has developed a dual, bi-directional amplifier that supports 2×2 MIMO radio. TTRM2005D is a solid-state Class-AB LDMOS power amplifier that operates across 2.2 – 2.5GHz and designed for military and commercial use. Signal types from simple CW/FM signals to complex highly-modulated carriers such as 64 and 256QAM are supported. “Being LDMOS, it’s ...
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The PillarHall test chip for analysing 3D thin film structures is ready for market. Chipmetrics Oy, a spin-off of VTT, is now starting to commercialise the solution. The test chip enables the production of smaller nanostructures and components. This opens up new opportunities for the development of semiconductors, memory circuits and smart devices, among others. ...
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