2020 foundry revenue up 23.7% on 2019

2020 foundry  revenue is forecast at $84.6 billion, says TrendForce, with the 23.7% increase over 2019 being the highest y-o-y growth in nearly 10 years. TrendForce has made the following three assumptions regarding foundry demand in 2021: First, pandemic-induced demand for networking products and from the stay-at-home economy will persist somewhat due to uncertainties in ...

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Graphcore raises $222m Series E

Graphcore of Bristol, the AI chipmaker, has raised $222 million in a Series E funding round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The round values Graphcore at $2.77 billion post-money and will be used to support the company’s global expansion and to accelerate product development. Graphcore has now raised more than $710 million ...

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Fabless to take 32.9% of total IC industry revenues

The revenue share which fabless companies take of  total semiconductor industry revenues will set a new record at 32.9% this year, says IC Insights, with fabless sales expected to grow 22%  and IDM sales expected to grow 6%. There is a relatively close relationship between the annual market growth of the fabless IC suppliers and foundries. ...

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Airbus shows hydrogen plane concept

Airbus has shown designs for self-contained hydrogen fuel cell pods that attach to the underside of aeroplane wings. Each detachable pod contains a propeller and all the fuel, motors, cooling and engineering needed to power the plane. The current powers the electric motor, causing the motor shaft to rotate and turning the eight-bladed propeller. The ...

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96-layer TLC NAND-based SSDs

New Yorker Electronics is shipping Innodisk’s 96-layer 3D NAND flash product lineup which has two models: 3TE7 and 3TG6-P, with the former being DRAM-less and the latter using an external DRAM chip and a Marvell controller. Both devices use pure industrial-grade 3D TLC NAND from Toshiba with a rated P/E cycle number of 3000, ensuring ...

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NevadaNano sensor in Xgard Bright gas detector

NevadaNano the gas detection sensor specialist, has had its Molecular Property Spectrometer (MPS) sensor adopted for Crowcon  Detection Instruments’  Xgard Bright fixed gas detector. “The MPS sensor has features such as long life, no calibration, no poisoning and gas classification that deliver improved detection capabilities and performance as well as reducing the burden of calibration ...

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