Q1 wafer shipments were up 10% y-o-y and 1% sequentially to reach a record 3,679 million square inches, reports SEMI. “This new silicon shipping milestone points to continued growth in all areas of the semiconductor market,” said Anna-Riikka Vuorikari-Antikainen, Chairman of SEMI’s Semiconductor Manufacturers Group and Chief Commercial Officer at Okmetic, “silicon wafer supply remains ...
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ADI has announced a three-axis MEMS accelerometer designed for a wide range of healthcare and industrial applications, including vital signs monitoring, hearing aids, and motion-enabled metering devices. The ADXL367 improves power consumption by two times versus a previous generation of the device (ADXL362) while improving noise performance by up to over 30 percent. The chip also provides extended field time that ...
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Indian Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Digital Fab (ISMC Digital Fab) – a jv between Intel subsidiary Tower Semiconductor and Orbit Ventures of Abu Dhabi – is to build a $3 billion fab for abalogue ICs in the Indian state if Karnataka. The jv has applied for a grant under the Indian government’s $10 billion chip incentive ...
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Magnachip has begun mass production of a 40V MOSFET with low RDS(on) to control Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) EV motors. The MOSFET is fully AEC-Q101 (Automotive Electronics Council-Q101) certified. The first application of this new product is for the Electric Water Pump of a new EV model from a global auto manufacturer. This MOSFET is also ...
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Nexperia has added to the range of discrete devices provided in leadless DFN packages with side-wettable flanks (SWF) for EVs. The AEC-Q101 range of devices available cuts across all Nexperia’s product groups and includes: • BC817QBH-Q and BC807QBH-Q series 45 V, 500 mA NPN/PNP general-purpose transistors in DFN1110D-3. • BAT32LS-Q and BAT42LS-Q general-purpose Schottky diode ...
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Samsung’s Q1 profit was up 50% y-o-y at $11.1 billion on revenue of $61.3 billion. Memory sales were up 40% y-o-y at $15.8 billion. Samsung warned about the effects of supply chain issues, geo-political conflicts and lockdowns.
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Arm says it has got rid of its Arm China CEO Allen Wu and has appointed Liu Renchen, vice dean at the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, and Eric Chen, managing partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, as co-CEOs of Arm China. “Arm China is in the process of resolving its long-standing corporate governance ...
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Intel’s $18.35 billion Q1 revenue beat expectations though down 7% y-o-y. Gross margin was 50.4% down from 55.2%. “We expect the industry will continue to see challenges until at least 2024 in areas like capacity and tool availability,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told the earnings call. PC chip revenue of $9.29 billion was down 13% ...
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Bosch is buying Arioso Systems of Dresden,. “The planned acquisition of Arioso Systems further enlarges our sensing solutions expertise for consumer electronics in the field of micro speakers,” explains Dr. Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO at Bosch Sensortec. Arioso Systems which emerged from the Fraunhofer IPMS and research activities at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg in 2019, is a ...
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Rohm and Delta Electronics, the power supply manufacturer, have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and mass produce GaN power devices. The aim is to develop 600V breakdown voltage GaN power devices optimised for a wide range of power supply systems. Rohm has already established a mass production system for 150V GaN HEMTsfeaturing an ...
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