Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - On October 16, 2020, STMicroelectronics announced the acquisition of a French fabless company, SOMOS Semiconductor ("SOMOS"), specialized in RF power amplifiers (PA) and RF front-end modules (FEM) based on the mainstream complementary...

Aspencore -- EPS News - A memory price jump that typically coincides with the introduction of new smartphone models in 3Q and 4Q is not expected due to disrupted buying patterns and cautious discretionary spending.

IC Insights' October Update to The McClean Report...

Electronics -- STMicroelectronics News - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has extended its portfolio of FlightSense(tm) Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors with the world's first...

Electronics -- STMicroelectronics News - Aiding the development of state-of-the-art cordless home and garden power tools, STMicroelectronics has introduced two new plug-and-play boards for controlling 3-phase brushless motors powered by up to 56V Li-ion batteries. Based...

Globe Newswire -- Technology - Automotive Electronics Council (AEC)-Q101-qualified devices targeted at helping electric vehicles achieve the highest levels of reliability and ruggedness Automotive Electronics Council (AEC)-Q101-qualified devices targeted at helping electric...

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Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - STMicroelectronics Establishes World's First "Lab-in-Fab" to Advance Adoption of Piezoelectric MEMS in Singapore in Partnership with A*STAR and ULVAC

Business Wire -- ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy-efficient innovations, today announced that Susan K. Carter was appointed to its board of directors and as a member of the board's audit committee. "We are excited to welcome Susan to the ON Semiconductor...

Business Wire -- Edwards has announced the appointment of Kate Wilson as the President of the Semiconductor Division, taking on the role from 1st January next year.

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, announced financial results today for the fiscal third quarter ended September 26, 2020. Jim Anderson, president and CEO, said, "We expanded operating profit in Q3 driven...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Silicon Labs noted that the revenue figures exceeded the guidance range the company had shared earlier. Silicon Labs' IoT products lead the revenue contribution Silicon Labs has reported financial results for its third quarter ended...

Media -- Evertiq - Should the USD 35 billion acquisition proceed as planned, AMD will greatly increase its influence across industries such as 5G, data center, ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems), and industrial automation, in turn overtaking MediaTek in...

Media -- DIGITIMES - DRAM ASPs climbed to US$3.70 in June 2020 before tapering off to US$3.51 in July and August, according to IC Insights, which expects modest price erosion through the end of this year.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan IC designers have seen orders swelling from China for imaging processing chips for surveillance, video conferencing and face ID applications as major Chinese chip maker HiSilicon under Huawei has stopped production of such chips in...

Media -- Electronics Maker - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) announced today that they have teamed up to design a 5G Network Massive MIMO Antenna Radio Unit for Rakuten Mobile. The radio unit...

Media -- EE World - STMicroelectronics has extended its portfolio of FlightSense Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors with the world's first 64-zone device that breaks a scene into separate areas to help an imaging system build the most detailed spatial understanding...

Media -- The Next Web - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has officially acquired San Jose chipmaker Xilinx for a moustache-twirling $35 billion. The deal is this year's second largest tech disclosed acquisition, behind NVIDIA's $40 billion buyout of mobile phone chipmaker...

Media -- WebWire - Aiding the development of state-of-the-art cordless home and garden power tools, STMicroelectronics has introduced two new plug-and-play boards for controlling 3-phase brushless motors powered by up to 56V Li-ion...

Media -- eeNews Europe - The Immersive Home Platform from Qualcomm Technologies uses the 6GHz band in WiFi 6E to provide backhaul in a mesh network to boost the usable bandwidth



Qualcomm Technologies has launched a tri-band WiFi chip that uses the new 6GHz...

Justmeans -- onsemi's Shenzhen sales office held an inaugural Charity Week in September encouraging employees to give their time, talent and energy to help...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - How the semiconductor market is combatting counterfeits with a self-erasing chip.

Electronics -- Qualcomm - New modular architecture brings high-performance, cost-effective Wi-Fi 6E mesh deployment designed to deliver wireless Gigabit speeds throughout the connected home

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Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - STMicroelectronics Introduces World's First All-in-One, Multi-Zone, Direct Time-of-Flight Module

Business Wire -- Xilinx introduces Zynq RFSoC DFE, a class of adaptive radio platforms designed to meet the evolving standards of 5G NR wireless applications.

Media -- WebWire - Canon Inc. announced today the launch in Japan of the FPA-3030i5a, the newest entry in the company's lineup of i-line1 stepper semiconductor lithography systems that support the manufacture of such devices as compound semiconductors and reduce...

Media -- eeNews Europe - As expected fabless processor company Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has made a bid to acquire FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.)Rumors of the deal surfaced a couple of weeks ago (see Opinion: Data centre AI drives $30bn AMD-Xilinx...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are useful tools to protect systems and limit bias, but the same tools can be used to produce serious harm," argues NXP in The Morals of Algorithms.

According to NXP, the biggest challenge for...

Aspencore -- EDN - The Microchip VSC8541ET Gigabit Ethernet PHY transceiver is a COTS device that is upgraded to withstand the rigors of avionics and military applications. Housed in a 68-lead, 8x8-mm VQFN package, the 10/100/1000-Mbps VSC8541ET operates over a temperature...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Analog Devices (ADI) and Microsoft have teamed up to produce time-of-flight (ToF) 3D imaging solutions with the goal of providing greater accuracy regardless of scene conditions. ADI will leverage Microsoft's Azure Kinect 3D ToF technology and...

Aspencore -- EETimes - From one auto maker to the next, there can be significant differences in the capabilities and quality of their various driver-assist technologies. Whether its a vision-based sensor system or a driver monitoring system (DMS), some vendors have...

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - - Record revenue grew 56 percent and net income and EPS more than doubled year-over-year -

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - - Strategic transaction strengthens AMD's industry-leading technology portfolio -

Globe Newswire -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today reported financial results for the third quarter 2020, ended September 27, 2020.

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - STMicroelectronics and Sanken Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop Intelligent Power Modules for High-Voltage Industrial and Automotive Products

Business Wire -- Seoul Semiconductor announced KRW 331 billion of consolidated revenue for the third quarter and operating profit of KRW 25 billion.

Media -- Evertiq - AMD and Xilinx have entered into a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at USD 35 billion.

Media -- FierceElectronics - AMD to buy Xilinx for $35 billion in stock

Media -- eBOM - Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced the launch of its online Market Place, which offers a one-stop source of solutions that help accelerate technical innovation for the future...

Media -- eBOM - The FM31256 integrates F-RAM memory with the most commonly needed functions for microcontroller-based systems: real-time clock, VDD supervisor, watchdog timer, two event counters, a lockable memory area for the 64-bit serial number, and general-purpose...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The global supply of NOR flash memory will fall short of demand in 2021 if trade tensions between the US and China persist, according to Macronix International chairman Miin Wu.

Media -- ELE Times - The Rohde & Schwarz technology company ends a successful 2019/2020 fiscal year despite a difficult global economic environment and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to a consistent diversification in the business fields of communications,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Samsung Electronics is reportedly looking to advance its partnership with EUV fab tool vendor ASML, aiming to accelerate the development of its advanced 5nm and 3nm foundry process technologies.

Media -- Semiconductor Today - On 16 October, STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland announced the acquisition of fabless company SOMOS Semiconductor of Marly-le-Roi, France, which specializes in RF power amplifiers (PAs) and front-end modules (FEMs) based...

Media -- Semiconductor Today - Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA - which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) and integrated circuits for power management applications - has signed...

Media -- Evertiq - Allegro MicroSystems, a fabless chip company focusing on sensing and power technology, has commenced a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC continues to advance in CoWoS-S packaging adopting silicon interposer, with the prospect of entering volume production in 2023 for the sixth-generation of the technology that can integrate HPCs and 12 cubes of HBM (high-bandwidth memory),...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Memory backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) is aggressively foraying into new logic IC segments such as TV SoCs and handset APs in a bid to offset loss of orders expected from Intel selling its NAND flash business to SK Hynix, according...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Fabless chipmakers, component suppliers and IC distributors have been aggressively scaling up their inventory levels, raising concerns of the semiconductor market having to undergo an inventory correction during the first half of 2021.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - The United States is developing new strategies to prevent it from falling further behind Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps even China in semiconductor manufacturing, as trade tensions and national security concerns continue to grow.

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