Q1 foundry revenues are expected to be 2% down q-o-q but 30% up y-o-y, says TrendForce. TSMC is expected to see full capacity for its 7nm and 90% capacity utilization for its 12/16nm nodes. Samsung is increasing capacity for 5G SoC AP, high resolution CIS, OLED-DDIC, and HPC products, while expanding its EUV applications and ...
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Tower Semiconductor has a PDK for a 0.18um high-performance power management technology that reduces power consumption and die size of PMICs. The process offers a lower RDson with 6mΩmm², 24V operation, smaller footprint, scalable power transistors, and low production mask count, enabling performance and cost advantages. This offering enables scalable IC operation of up to 24 ...
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Q4 sales of CMOS image sensors were 38% up q-o- q at $5.746 million, says Yole Developpement. 2019 revenue growth was 25% but, this year, growth is expected to slow down to 7%.
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Imec and Park Systems, the Atomic Force Microscopy and Metrology specialist, have signed the 2nd Joint Development Project (JDP) within 4 years to increase the development efforts for future generation in-line AFM metrology solutions. Dr. Luc Van den hove (President & CEO, Imec) and Dr. Sang-il Park (Chairman & CEO, Park Systems) The official signing ...
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Coronavirus cases could be on the way down within six to ten weeks of countries taking shut-down precautions and instituting testing procedures, says Bill Gates (pictured), who led the fight to eradicate polio and has pledged $100 million to tackle the coronavirus. Asked during a Reddit Q&A session Gates how long the coronavirus crisis would ...
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Fabless revenues fell 4.1% in 2019 and are unlikely to grow this year, reports TrendForce. The top three IC fabless companies – Broadcom, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA – all saw decreased revenues last year. Broadcom was affected by the U.S. Entity List policy and saw a 7% revenue decrease YoY. Second-place Qualcomm faced fierce competition from ...
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In February, smartphone shipments were down 38% y-o-y – the biggest fall in the history of the market, says Strategy Analytics. Units fell from 99.2 million phones in February, 2019, to 61.8 million in February, 2020. “Despite tentative signs of recovery in China, we expect global smartphone shipments overall to remain weak throughout March, 2020,” ...
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The worldwide server market continued to grow in Q4 with revenue increasing 5.1% and unit shipments growing 11.7% year over year, according to Gartner. In 2019, worldwide server shipments declined 3.1% and server revenue declined 2.5% compared with full-year 2018. “The market returned to growth with a very strong fourth quarter result, largely driven by ...
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Septentrio is starting high-volume production of a multi-constellation and multi-band receiver module delivering centimetre-level positioning to technologies such as robotics, automation, smart wearables and telematics among others. Called mosaic TM-X5 it aims to make high-performance positioning accessible to volume applications. The GNSS receiver has a multi-frequency multi-constellation capability receiving every existing and future signal from ...
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Engineers, anaesthetists and surgeons from the University of Oxford and King’s College London are building and testing prototype ventilators that can be manufactured using techniques and tools available in well-equipped university and small and medium enterprise (SME) workshops. The team, led by Oxford Professors Andrew Farmery, Mark Thompson and Alfonso Castrejon-Pita and King’s College London’s Dr Federico ...
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