Hynix has announced SSDs based on 72 layer 3D NAND memory chips. The SSDs are targeted at data centre and enterprise usage, and come in capacities up to 4TB. The SSDs have 512Gb dies. They come in both SATA and PCIe interface versions. Sequential reads and writes of the SATA drive are 560MB/s and 515MB/s respectively. ...
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Melexis, the Belgian fabless auto IC specialist,, has announced a five-year plan to expand in Sofia, Bulgaria and Corbeil-Essonnes, France. Melexis has been present in Sofia since 2000 and is planning to double the manufacturing space as well as significantly extending the R&D and Warehousing facilities, adding a further 15,000 sq. m. to the 7,500 ...
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Samsung is to put $12.6 billion into a second line at its Pyeongtaek fab. Line 1 at Pyeongtaek, which cost $14.4 billion, is for NAND. Line 2 is for DRAM. Earlier this week Samdung xigned an MOU with China’s NRDC to respond to the shortage in DRAM which has been affecting the profitability of China’s ...
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Silicon wafer area shipments in 2017 increased by 10% against 2016 shipments, while worldwide silicon revenues rose by 21% over 2016 levels, reports the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). ImageSilicon wafer area shipments in 2017 totaled 11,810 million square inches (MSI), up from the previous market high of 10,738 million square inches shipped during 2016. ...
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TI claims to have produced the industry’s smallest op amp and low-power comparators at 0.64 mm2. As the first amplifiers in the X2SON package, the TLV9061 op amp and TLV7011 family of comparators enable engineers to reduce their system size and cost, while maintaining performance. With a high gain bandwidth (GBW) of 10 MHz, fast ...
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Q4 saw a 12% slump in the tablet market pushing the year to a 9% decrease at 185 million units, reports Strategy Analytics. Gains by Apple, Huawei, and Amazon were not enough to offset a big retrenchment by unbranded vendors as well as double digit declines at Samsung and Lenovo. Apple iOS shipments grew ...
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2017 semiconductor sales were a record $412.2 billion, says the SIA, a rise of 21.6% over 2016 December sales were $38 billion, an increase of 22.5% over the December 2016 total and 0.8% more than November. Q4 sales of $114.0 billion were 22.5% higher than Q4 2016 and 5.7% more than Q3 2017. Q4 and ...
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KEMET has expanded its commercial and automotive grade high voltage C0G Ceramic Capacitors as increasing use of wide band power semiconductors in power electronics applications drives forward new inverter and DC/DC converter designs with far greater power density, voltage, current and frequency. The KEMET capacitor ranges target new generation power electronics used for alternative energy ...
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Imec has developed its first first shortwave infrared (SWIR) range hyperspectral imaging camera. The SWIR range provides discriminatory information on all kinds of materials, paving the way to hyperspectral imaging applications in food sorting, waste management, machine vision, precision agriculture and medical diagnostics. Imec’s SWIR camera integrates CMOS-based spectral filters together with InGaAs-based imagers, thus ...
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Panasonic is launching power inductors for automotive and other strenuous applications requiring high heat (up to +150°C including self-heating) and vibration resistance (up to 30G). Benefiting from a shielded construction, low profile (only 3mm maximum height), excellent inductance and temperature stability over a broad temperature range, as well as low audible (buzz) noise, the components ...
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