2021 sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were up 44% at $102.6 billion on the 2020 sales total of $71.2 billion, reports SEMI. China was the largest market with sales growing 58% to $29.6 billion. Korea, the second-largest  market, had a sales increase of 55% to $25.0 billion. Taiwan, in third place, had 45% growth to $24.9 billion. Region ...

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Schaffner has added the ED100/ED101 EMC filter series for LED driver circuits. The new filter’s common-mode inductance is matched by a substantial differential-mode inductance. With only one component required on the PCB both types of  noise can be mitigated, saving cost and space while increasing reliability. LEDs are very sensitive to overcurrent and “driver circuits” keep the ...

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TSMC’s March revenue of  $5.92 billion was 17% up on February and 33.2% up y-o-y. Revenue for January through March 2022 of  $16.9 billion was 35.5% up y-o-y. TSMC March Revenue Report (Consolidated): (Unit: NT$ million) Period Net Revenues March 2022 171,967 February 2022 146,933 M-o-M Increase (Decrease) % 17.0 March 2021 129,127 Y-o-Y Increase ...

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The automotive lighting market is dominated by five big players, Koito, Marelli, Valeo, Hella (now Forvia), and Stanley, says Yole Developpement. These top 5 represented 66% of the market in 2021. The Asian market is dominated by Japanese companies, with Koito and Stanley having captured 44% of the market. In Europe, the automotive lighting industry ...

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Nissan showed off its prototype factory for solid-state batteries at the weekend. The technology could reduce the cost of EVs to the same level as ICE cars, says Nissan The company says the latest batteries charge three times faster and offer twice the range of earlier models.  Nissan said it is working with NASA and ...

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The chip shortage is unlikely to completely resolved until 2024, VW CFO Arno Antiz told Boersen-Zeitung at the weekend. “The structural undersupply will likely only resolve itself in 2024,” Antlitz said. Some bottlenecks will ease towards the end of this year, said Antiz, but production won’t return to 2019 levels until 2023. Consequently demand will ...

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The US DoD is offering prize money for solutions to O-RAN inter-operability issues. A statement from the DoD reads: ‘The DoD, in collaboration with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), announced today the launch of the 5G Challenge Preliminary Event: RAN Subsystem Interoperability.’ ‘The 5G Challenge aims to foster ...

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Semiconductor manufacturing equipment lead-times are stretching out, threatening the capacity expansion plans of device manufacturers, reports the Nikkei. Shortages which are affecting the build plans of equipment makers include lenses, valves,  pumps, MCUs, engineering plastics and electronic modules. Lead-times for parts and materials quoted by the Nikkei in months are: Valves, Pumps, Engineering Plastics – ...

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