Semi capex is  on pace for 34% growth in 2021 to reach $152 billion this year, says IC Insights, Foundries are forecast to account for over one-third of semi capex spending this year. New factories and equipment for 7/5/3nm processes highlight growing the industry’s dependence on the foundry business model. The 34% expected surge in ...

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Imec showed this week’s IEDM meeting its co-integration of high-performance Schottky barrier diodes and depletion-mode HEMTs on a p-GaN HEMT-based 200 V GaN-on-SOI smart power IC on 200 mm substrates. The addition of these components enables the design of chips with extended functionality and increases performance that takes monolithically-integrated GaN power ICs one step further. ...

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Alps Alpine has developed a new high-performance isolated DC-DC converter circuit technology, Isolated TriMagiC Converter. The technology uses Li-qualloy – an original magnetic material developed by Alps Alpine – instead of ferrite for magnetic components in trans-formers and resonant coils. Use of the material here in a circuit that operates in On/On & On/Off mode simultaneously enables ...

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Rohm-Wako is to build a new production facility at its manufacturing subsidiary in Malaysia to increase production capacity of analogue LSIs and transistors due to growing demands. The  new building will increase the overall production capacity of  Rohm-Wako by approximately 1.5 times. Construction of the new facility, which is expected to have 3-story and a ...

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