The rebirth of the semiconductor industry
By Ajit Manocha At a Glance “Software is eating the world … and AI is eating software.” Amir Husain, author of The Sentient Machine, at SEMICON West 2018 We’re living…
SEMI High-Tech Facility events: Shaping the future of smart factories in Taiwan
By Iris Tsou The march to greater precision, efficiency and safety – the lifeblood of high-technology manufacturing facilities – has taken on a new urgency as emerging applications such artificial…
Keysight delivers the industry’s smallest solder-in probe head for high performance oscilloscopes
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the Keysight MX0100A InfiniiMax micro probe…
Avnet expands relationship with Microchip
Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), a global technology company, has been named a global distribution partner for Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip Technology, Inc. As an extension of Avnet’s…
Rambus appoints Sanjay Saraf to Board of Directors
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a developer of digital security, semiconductor and IP products and services, today announced the appointment of Sanjay Saraf to its board of directors, effective immediately. Mr.…
Theorists find mechanism behind nearly pure nanotubes from the unusual catalyst
Growing a batch of carbon nanotubes that are all the same may not be as simple as researchers had hoped, according to Rice University scientists. Rice materials theorist Boris Yakobson…
EPFL uses excitons to take electronics into the future
Excitons could revolutionize the way engineers approach electronics. A team of EPFL researchers has created a new type of transistor – one of the components of circuits – using these…
Chipus brings ultra-low-power IP to SiFive’s DesignShare ecosystem
SiFive, the provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, today welcomed Chipus Microelectronics, a semiconductor company with proven expertise in the development of ultra-low-power (ULP), low-voltage, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits,…
SOI market worth $1,832.5M USD by 2023
The silicon-on-insulator market is expected to reach USD 1,832.5 million by 2023 from USD 686.0 million by 2018, at a CAGR of 21.7%, According to the new market research report…
Apple’s strategy towards 3D sensing is pushing VCSEL industry
The VCSEL industry took a strategic turn last year with the release of the latest iPhone. Indeed the leading smartphones manufacturer, Apple revealed to the entire world a new smartphone…