Charlie Sporck, who has died of the age of 96, was one of the great men who pioneered the semiconductor industry. At his retirement dinner his great friend Gordon Moore ...
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Double digit growth for semis this year and next
2025 semiconductor sales will grow 14% to $717 billion, says Gartner, after 19% growth this year to reach $630 billion following the 11.7% 2023 decline. “The growth is driven by ...
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Imec Cambridge gets £3m ARIA funding
The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has awarded £3 million funding to the eight month-old imec Cambridge unit to develop a predictive system-level software framework for training of ...
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Siemens launches SIMOCODE M-CP
Siemens has launched SIMOCODE M-CP, a motor management product series tailored for motor control centres (MCC) which complements the existing SIMOCODE portfolio. SIMOCODE M-CP can be adapted to different operational ...
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Intel announces successor to head of process technology development
Intel has announced a successor to its head of process technology development one year before it plans to unveil a world-leading process – 18A. Ann Kelleher (pictured), an Intel evp, ...
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Money raised and spent at Waymo tops $25bn
Alphabet plus some outside investors have put another $5.6 billion into Waymo, Alphabet’s self driving car subsidiary. Waymo is running Robotaxi services in San Francisco, Phoenix and LA using retro-fitted ...
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6% increase in mature node capacity for top ten this year
Chinese foundries are set to be the main drivers of an increase of 6% in the capacity of the world’s top ten mature process foundries, according to TrendForce. For mature ...
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TSMC’s Arizona yield 4% better than in Taiwan
The yield on TSMC’s 4nm process being ramped at its first Phoenix, Arizona fab is 4% better than the yields from its Taiwan fabs, according to Rick Cassidy, president of ...
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The prospects for AI as an IC growth driver
AI is widely cited as a growth driver for the technology industry including semiconductors but, while AI is in its early stages, opinions vary on whether it will become common ...
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Quantum Dice and SCI Semi sign MoU on high integrity security
Quantum Dice, a University of Oxford spin-out pioneering quantum random number generator (QRNG) technology, and SCI Semiconductor, a UK-based developer of high-integrity silicon devices, today announce the signing of an ...
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