TSMC had December sales of $4.2 billion- a decrease of 6% from November 2020 and an increase of 13.6% from December 2019. Q4 sales were $10 billion. Full year revenues of $48 billion were up 25% on 2019.
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The automotive industry has been hit by a shortage of semiconductors with VW and Honda cutting car production in the face of reduced supplies. Honda is cutting back vehicle production by 4000 units this month, mainly of the Fit subcompact car, because it can’t get ICs. “The massively restricted supply situation for semiconductors is causing ...
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ST says its revenues for Q4 are better than expected at $3.24 billion which is up 21.3% sequentially. “We ended Q420 with net revenues above the outlook range due to significantly better than expected market dynamics throughout the quarter,” says CEO Jean-Marc Chery (pictured). “Our engaged customer programs in Personal Electronics, as well as continuous ...
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Virgin Orbit has rescheduled the second test flight of its LauncherOne rocket for this Sunday, 10 January (10am Pacific Time). The mission will launch the CubeSats of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission. These will be the first payload to be carried by the rocket into space. The LauncherOne will take off from the ...
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GaN Systems has launched several evaluation boards – the latest with MinDCet, an power semiconductor design house, for a 100V Half-Bridge evaluation kit. The 100V Half-Bridge evaluation kit provides testing capabilities for quick implementation. Thekit claims to show the ease-of-use, high performance, and flexibility of GaN transistor and driver combinations. The evaluation kit includes the ...
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Infineon is launching an improved analogue MEMS microphone – the XENSIV IM73A135. In microphones, designers often have to accept trade-offs: high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), a small package, high acoustic overload point, low power consumption, MEMS versus electret condenser microphones (ECM). For this reason, applications that require highest performance microphones may have previously still used ECMs ...
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OmniVision is sampling a 40MP, 1.0 micron pixel image sensor that claims best-in-class low light camera performance in the 1/1.7” optical format. The sensor also offers multiple high dynamic range (HDR) options for the best quality still and video captures. Additionally, it supports 1080p slow-motion and high-speed video captures at 240 frames per second (fps) with ...
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STMicroelectronics has introduced an asymmetric half-bridge pair of power GaN transistors in a small (9 x 9 x 1mm GQFN) package that includes driver and protection circuits. Called MasterGaN2, the transistors are: 225mΩ 6.5A high-side 150mΩ 10A low-side “MasterGaN2 is the first in the new family to contain two asymmetric gallium-nitride transistors, delivering an integrated GaN ...
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Renesas has announced a 60W wireless induction power receiver IC, compliant with WPC 1.2.4 and compatible with WPC 1.3+. Called P9418, it can also deliver up to 5W as a wireless power transmitter. Power is transferred through an external LC coupling tank. As a receiver, the device has a all-n-channel synchronous full bridge rectifier to convert ...
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Following on from its vertical-mount long-life USB A-type sockets (photo centre), GCT has announced a pair of horizontal-mount extended-life USB A connectors – with added current capacity – aiming them at fast charging and high usage applications. USB1130 (photo left) is a USB-A 2.0 connector tested to 10,000 mating cycles USB1135 (photo right) is a USB 3.0 ...
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