OASIS vs GDS: Time to switch?
DENNIS JOSEPH, Mentor, a Siemens Business, Beaverton, OR As foundries advance their process technology, integrated circuit (IC) layout designers have the ability to deliver more functionality in the same chip…
New Casambi-Enabled LED Drivers from Harvard — LED professional
The CoolLED PRO CLi Series of Casambi-enabled LED drivers are available in 15W, 25W and 40W versions and are programmable from 100 to 1400mA. Specification rich, the CLi Series LED…
AI Chips: Challenges and Opportunities
PETE SINGER, Editor-in-Chief The exploding use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era for semiconductor devices that will bring many new opportunities but also many challenges. Speaking…
Osram Pushes Efficiency Program and Accelerate Transformation
After reporting a robust financial result for its Fiscal 1Q20, Osram further announced a better than expected performance of its efficiency programs. The German company said that thanks to the…
LG’s Revolutionary Transparent OLED Touch Signage Display Creates AR Effect — LED professional
Transparency: The first building block to the striking effect of the Transparent OLED Touch is its unprecedented transparency: 33%, compared to the 10% of existing transparent LCD solutions. Because of…
New Thinking Required for Machine Learning
DAVE LAMMERS, contributing editor Judging by the presentations at the 2018 Symposium on VLSI Technology, held in Honolulu this summer, the semiconductor industry has a challenge ahead of it: how…
Smart Street Lighting as Fundamental Infrastructure for Future Smart City Applications, Says Osram
In its latest blog post, Osram addressed the significance of smart street lighting for future cities, noting that the digital transformation of city services is critical and will rely…
Compound Photonics and Plessey Create microLED Display Modules from Bonded Wafers — LED professional
CP and Plessey engineering teams have successfully fabricated functional microLED display modules combining CP's industry-leading high speed digital low-latency display backplane with Plessey's breakthrough GaN-on-Silicon monolithic microLED array technology. Plessey's…
Sensors in the new age of the car
Richard Dixon, Senior Principal Analyst, Sensors, IHS Markit Richard Dixon Sensors are inextricably linked to the future requirements of partially and fully autonomous vehicles. From highly granular dead-reckoning subsystems that…
Seoul Semiconductor Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2019 Results
Seoul Semiconductor published its fiscal 2019 and 4Q19 financial results. The company posted a consolidated revenue of KRW 1129.5 billion (US$ 954.5 million) and operating profit of KRW 49.6 billion…