Toray Industries claims to be the first company to communicate wirelessly across the UHF  band with a printed semiconductor. The RFID device employs a semi-conductive carbon nanotube composite. The tag shows the potential for manufacturing UHF RFIDs by low-cost printing processes to streamline retail and logistics operations such as in  automating cash registers and efficient inventory ...

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Moore’s Law lives, was the message from Future Horizons’ Industry Forecast Seninar (IFS2020) in London on Wednesday. “Never underestimate the chip industry’s inventiveness,” said Future Horizons CEO Malcolm Penn (pictured), adding that the advances in NAND are “chip innovation at its absolute best.” “Even the Chinese are making 64-layer NAND”, said Penn, while 96-layer devices ...

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TSMC has forecast a 45% y-o-y rise in Q1 recenue. 5G is one reason given for the spike. The company  expects revenue over January-March to reach $10.2 billion-$10.3 billion, versus $7.1 billion a year ago. “Moving into first quarter 2020, despite mobile product seasonality, we anticipate our business to be supported by the continued ramp ...

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Semiconductor industry revenues totalled $418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, says Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the memory market negatively impacted many of the top vendors, including Samsung Electronics, the No. 1 vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017. “The memory market, which accounted ...

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Imagination has opened a new design centre in Timisoara, Romania to  focus on IP designed for AI and computer vision. The team will initially focus on software and test activities, expanding in the future to areas such as system architecture and design. The new site will complement the capabilities of Imagination’s existing engineering teams located around ...

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This year double digit growth for the semiconductor industry is guaranteed, said Malcolm Penn (pictured), CEO of Future Horizons, at the company’s Industry Forecast Seminar 2020 (IFS2020) in London this morning. Penn forecasts a market topping $450 billion this year. Q1 is forecast at minus 1% Q2 at plus 3.5% Q3 at 9.7% and Q4 ...

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ST has signed a multi-year SiC wafer supply agreement with SiCrystal, a ROHM group company. The agreement governs the supply of over $120 million dollars of advanced 150mm silicon carbide wafers by SiCrystal to STMicroelectronics during this period of demand ramp-up for silicon carbide power devices. “This additional long-term SiC substrate supply agreement comes on ...

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Evonetix, the Cambridge gene synthesis specialist, is collaborating with Imec on MEMS ICs to enable Evonetix’s desktop DNA platform to be made on a commercial scale. Evonetix’s technology controls the synthesis of DNA at many thousands of independently controlled reaction sites or ‘pixels’ on the chip’s  surface in a highly parallel fashion. Following synthesis, strands ...

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Investments in the UK tech sector rose to $13.2 billion in 2019 – a $4.1 billion increase on 2018, says the Digital Economy Council.  Growth in VC investment exceeded 40% for the third year in a row. The UK is third behind only US and China in terms of VC funding received in 2019. Companies ...

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