Q3 wafer shipments were up 3.3% on Q2 to a record 3,649 million square inches, reports SEMI, which was 16.4% up y-o-y. “Silicon wafer shipments reached a new high in third quarter, with higher shipments in all diameters, which support the large variety of semiconductor devices needed for the modern economy,” says Neil Weaver, Chairman ...
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DRAM’s current shortage will become a glut next year, says TrendForce, with the ASP dropping 15%, bit demand growing 17.7% and the value of the market climbing 0.3% to $91.5 billion. NAND revenues are expected to grow 7.3% next year to $74.9 billion, bit demand is expected to grow 30.8% and the ASP is expected to ...
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MicroAI, the Dallas edge AI specialist, has announced Launchpad, a quick start development and deployment tool. Launchpad helps organizations simplify and accelerate the design, development, testing, and deployment of systems, that run embedded MicroAI software on MCUs and MPUs in edge and endpoint devices. Launchpad gives engineers a single pane of glass for customizable dashboards, including ...
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Imagination Technologies has announced its most powerful GPU yet. Aimed at mobiles as well as automotive, cloud and desktop use, it has been dubbed IMG CXT, and includes the first outing of the company’s ‘Photon’ ray tracing architecture. “By adding Photon hardware ray tracing, IMG CXT represents a jump in GPU IP, delivering incredible performance ...
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Osram and the University of Padua have been studying the effects of UV-C radiation from LEDs on SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19. “It has already been shown that a high intensity of UV-C LED radiation can inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 virus rapidly,” according to the company. “In realistic applications, like upper air treatment or secondary air treatment devices ...
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Farnell has signed an agreement with Omega to stock its complete range of sensing, control and monitoring products for factory automation and Industry 4.0, for delivery in the APAC region. The portfolio adds 620 products to Farnell’s inventory, including power supplies, sensors, transducers, switches, relays, transformers, enclosures, panel displays, instrumentation, cables, connectors and components for ...
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New Jersey Silicon carbide power transistor maker UnitedSiC has been acquired by Qorvo – the combined company formed by the merger of TriQuint and RF Micro Devices in 2015. To be called Qorvo’s Power Device Solutions, it will be led by Chris Dries, formerly president and CEO of UnitedSiC. “The acquisition of United Silicon Carbide expands Qorvo’s ...
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Typically, verication is done by synthesising RTL and running it to see how well it performs against the performance specification that were defined at the start of the design. By adjusting the design, the performance is improved with each RTL run but each iteration can take weeks to effect. Sondrel has developed a methodology that ...
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NXP has added to its EdgeReady portfolio with a face recognition device which uses a 3D structured light module (SLM) camera combined with the i.MX RT117F crossover MCU. By combining a 3D SLM camera with an MCU to deliver 3D face recognition at the edge, it removes the need to use aLinux implementation on an ...
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Synopsys has bought Concertio, the AI software specialist to improve its SiliconMAX Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) Platform. The platform is integrated with Synopsys’ TestMAX family of test products and technologies. Links to the Synopsys Fusion Design Platform provide the ability to minimize and root-cause parametric yield failures due to silicon variation. These links also ensure that SLM solutions ...
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