Strong growth driven by a 74% surge in the DRAM market and 44% jump in the NAND flash market, will see the IC  market grow by 22% this year, says IC Insights.. IC Insights has raised its IC market growth rate forecast for 2017 to 22%, up six percentage points from the 16% increase shown ...

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Socionext’s “Media Cloud” is designed to deliver a 10-fold increase in video transcoding speeds and efficiency, resulting in unprecedented levels of performance and optimal user streaming experience. The Media Cloud addresses the ever-growing mass consumption of high-quality video, specifically the need for efficient and dense live transcoding for today’s standards and tomorrow’s 4K AVC/HEVC requirements. ...

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Samsung says it has finished its development of an 8nm process for foundry. The 8nm process is a straight shrink from the 10nm process which delivers 10% more dendity with 10% less power. The 8nm process is a low-power plus (LPP) process acting as a half-node interim process between Samsung’s 10nm and 7nm process. 7nm ...

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DENSO Is to sstart joint technology development of cabin sensing with the Silicon Valley image recognition specialist  FotoNation. The partnership will help DENSO improve the performance of its Driver Status Monitor, an active safety product currently used in commercial vehicles. Improvements of such products also will accelerate the development of next-generation products to be used ...

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Synopsys has bought Sidense – the one-time programmable (OTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) IP specialist. The acquisition complements Synopsys’ existing DesignWare Multi-Time Programmable (MTP) NVM IP solution with OTP NVM IP in 16-bit to 1.28-Mbit configurations. With this acquisition, Synopsys gains access to proven OTP NVM IP in process technologies from 180- to 16‑nm along with ...

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Farnell element 14  has announced a new competition to celebrate the season of frights and scares. Engineers and element14.com members are asked to get involved with the chance of winning one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. To get involved engineers can: Build and document their past or present Halloween projects on the element14 community. ...

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 FTDI Chip is taking further steps to gain greater traction in the Far East. The company has made major investment into a creating a capacious, easy-to-navigate website that focusses specifically on the needs of customers located in the increasingly important markets that have emerged out of China. This comprehensive new online resource not only covers ...

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15 new fab projects in China are underway or have been announced since 2017, says SEMI, boosting spending on semiconductor fab equipment  to more than $12 billion, annually, by 2018. As a result, China is projected to be the top spending region in fab equipment by 2019, and is likely to approach record all-time levels ...

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The 63rd IEDM to be held December 2-6, 2017 at the San Francisco Hilton promises to be a memorable IEDM for its variety. Among the talks are presentations by Intel and Globalfoundries, which will each detail their forthcoming competing FinFET transistor technology platforms in a session on Wednesday morning.   “Those who attend IEDM 2017 ...

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