With IC companies clamouring to have their leading-edge devices fabricated using 7nm and 5nm process nodes, and with TSMC the only foundry manufacturing ICs using both 7nm and 5nm process nodes, the company’s overall revenue per wafer increased significantly in 2020, reports IC Insights. 16 fabless IC companies with more than $1.0 billion in 2020 revenues ...
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January semiconductor sales of $40 billion were 13.2% up on the $35.3 billion of January 2020 and 1% more than December’s total of $39.6 billion, says the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales got off to a strong start in 2021, increasing both year-to-year and month-to-month in January,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “global semiconductor production is ...
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Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has entered into a license agreement with Chronoptics which designs and integrates Time-of-Flight 3D cameras. The agreement gives Melexis exclusive use of Chronoptics’ multipath and linearity error correction technologies in automotive applications. This includes ADAS for autonomous vehicles, and interior monitoring and safety systems. The companies will also work ...
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In Q4 memory avoided the shortage problems affecting the logic market with prices, demand and availability staying stable, reports TrendForce, Q4 DRAM revenue reached $17.65 billion, a 1.1% increase YoY, which is attributed to Chinese smartphone brands like Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, buying more stock with a view to taking the market share made available after ...
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Imec has demonstrated the capability of directed self-assembly (DSA) to pattern line/spaces with a pitch as small as 18nm, using a high-chi block copolymer (high-χ BCP) based process under high volume manufacturing (HVM) conditions. An optimized dry-etch chemistry was used to successfully transfer the pattern into an underlying thick SiN layer – which will enable further ...
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Intelsat has completed its acquisition of the commercial aviation business of Gogo. It creates, says the company, “the world’s leading provider of inflight broadband connectivity to the commercial aviation industry”. The $400m cash deal – which was first reported back in September 2020 – brings together the satellite operator with the provider of inflight broadband ...
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