Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Electronics -- Intel - Intel Corporation today announced the appointment of Dawn Jones as chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO) and vice president of social impact, effective immediately. Jones is a 24-year Intel veteran and will lead the company's global diversity...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - You are about to watch the unboxing of the RA4M1 Clicker board! This time we had a special guest - Ashish Ahuja, Principal Product Manager & Product Marketing Manager at Renesas. He [...]

Electronics -- Infineon - Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) has successfully signed a $1.3 billion US private placement of notes. The proceeds of the transaction will be used to repay existing US Dollar bank term loans related...

Media -- New Electronics - The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has said that while it is doing all it can to increase productivity and alleviate a worldwide chip shortage, tight supplies are expected to continue well into 2022.

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC expects to post revenues of between US$12.9 billion and US$13.2 billion in the second quarter of 2021, which is a 1% sequential increase at the midpoint. Gross margin and operating margin for the second quarter are estimated at 49.5-51.5%...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Over the last year, the semiconductor industry has seen its share of highs, lows and uncertainties.

In early 2020, the business looked bright, but the IC market dropped amid the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. Throughout 2020 different...

Media -- DIGITIMES - A power outage experienced by TSMC's Fab-14A P7 at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) on April 14 prompted the foundry to halt part of its 40/45nm and other mature-node chip production, according to market sources.

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC is expected to enjoy a particularly strong second quarter of 2021, but is facing challenges such as the impact of the US sanctions against Tianjin Phytium and a worsening drought in Taiwan, according to market watchers.

Media -- DIGITIMES - ICs accounted for a record-high 35.5% of Taiwan's total exports in 2020, indicating Taiwan-based chipmakers are increasingly critical to the country's economy, according to Digitimes Research.

Electronics -- Texas Instruments Newsroom - Designers can optimize the size and EMI of the power supply in industrial and automotive electronics with new buck controllers from TI

Business Wire -- Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) has expanded its family of voltage-level shifters, with the release of the PI4ULS3V304AQ. This advanced level shifting technology, featuring high degrees of flexibility, is proving vital to modern automobile design....

Business Wire -- Mavenir and Xilinx collaborate to bring to market a unified 4G/5G O-RAN massive MIMO (mMIMO) portfolio to enable Open RAN deployments

Business Wire -- Renesas announced that it has become a signatory of Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs)

Media -- eeNews Europe - Altium subsidiary Gumstix is offering free board development using Google's Coral AI chip and Raspberry Pi as part of the Coral Partnership ProgramPCB software vendor Altium has added its browser-based design tool Upverter to the...

Media -- eeNews Europe - Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased by over $1b in 2020, marking a new milestone for the industry but Europe falls behindThe latest data from the ESD Alliance have shown Europe is falling behind in the chip...

Media -- Evertiq - Propelled by 50% share of IDM sales and 64% share of fabless sales, U.S. companies captured 55% of the total worldwide IC market in 2020.

Media -- DIGITIMES - US companies held a 50% share of total IDM sales and a 64% share of fabless sales worldwide in 2020, capturing 55% of total IC sales worldwide last year, according to IC Insights.

Media -- The Next Web - If you've got a new Android phone, its processor could be more advanced than the one that will control the first-ever flight on Mars. NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which is slated to make its maiden voyage on the red planet on April 14,...

Media -- Electronics360 - The bipartisan bill would help increase domestic U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.

Media -- eeNews Europe - Lawsuits are growing around ARM China, a joint venture with ARM of the UK, threatening to prevent a deal to sell ARM to Nvidia.Confusion surrounds the fate of ARM China and the wider $40bn deal for Nvidia to buy ARM as the Chinese...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - CEO Gelsinger added that this move will provide a 'more immediate help with a shortage that has disrupted assembly lines at Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co.' In light of the existent chip scarcity that has crippled automotive...

Media -- Evertiq - Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled USD 466.2 billion in 2020, an increase of 10.4% from 2019, according to final results by Gartner, Inc.

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC, United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) are all expected to see their revenues hit another record highs in the second quarter of 2021, as tight fab capacity continues to drive wafer ASPs, according...

Media -- Evertiq - According to Intel's new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, the company is ready to step up and start making chips for car makers to take the edge off the current shortage that has hit the automotive industry hard.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$466.2 billion in 2020, an increase of 10.4% from 2019, according to Gartner.

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC chairman Mark Liu, who participated in a virtual summit hosted by the Biden administration to discuss global chip shortages and the US plan to rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing edge, has reiterated the Taiwan-based foundry house's...

Media -- SemiMedia - The STMicroelectronics' new MasterGaN4 power packages integrate two symmetrical 650V gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors with 225mohm RDS(on), alongside optimized gate drivers and circuit protection to simplify the design of high-efficiency...

Media -- SemiMedia - On April 12th, Automotive News Europe published a report titled Path Out of Chip Shortage: New Capacity, New Thinking - and Patience. The report elaborated on the recent difficulties faced by the automotive industry in chip supply, and gave...

Media -- eBOM - The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today released the following statement from President and CEO John Neuffer regarding today's meeting at the White House between Biden Administration officials and leaders from the semiconductor industry...

Media -- New Electronics - Gartner has reported that worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled $466.2bn in 2020, an increase of 10.4% from 2019.

Media -- DIGITIMES - MediaTek and Elan Microelectronics both plan to raise their chip prices by 10-20% to reflect rising foundry costs starting May 1, while fellow IC design company Realtek Semiconductor will also hike its chip prices by over 20% later in the...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Moore's Law is the most iconic statement of exponential technology advancement, doubling transistor count and hence functional performance every 24 months. Many pundits [1-3] have observed that while technology advancement...

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Ice Lake-SP is finally ready for prime time. Intel's latest server CPU will debut in-market to power Intel's 3rd Generation of Xeon Scalable processors, and close some performance gaps vis-a-vis AMD's Epyc family.Intel's 2nd Generation Xeon...

Tech -- Digital Trends - The transition to 10nm has taken Intel seven years. But with 14nm behind them, the road ahead is finally clear.

Media -- FierceElectronics - Chip shortage: How soon is relief possible?

Media -- eBOM - The STMicroelectronics MasterGaN4* power packages integrate two symmetrical 650V gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors with 225mohm RDS(on), alongside optimized gate drivers and circuit protection to simplify the design of high-efficiency power-conversion...

Business Wire -- Analog Devices Announces 16-Channel, Mixed-Signal Front-End Digitizer for Reference Design Integration

Business Wire -- Analog Devices Advances Climate Strategy and Commits to Net Zero Emissions by 2050

Media -- Design And Reuse - Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 10.4% in 2020

Media -- ELE Times - A Good Leader enthrals every nook of the industry with performance and ability. From aviation to railways, engineering to medicine, civil services to politics, women leaders have contributed efficiently for good management and advocacy. Companies...

Media -- eeNews Europe - This white paper examines the European Union's declared goal of enabling a wafer fab to be operating in Europe with 2nm process capability by the end of the decade. The author concludes that while this may be technically...

Media -- Evertiq - In response to consumers' growing emphasis on camera performance as a major selling point of smartphones, smartphone brands have successively released multi-camera handsets to target this rising demand and seize market shares, in turn driving...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Network and communication IC supplier Realtek Semiconductor reportedly is currently unable to fulfill its orders for audio+LAN chips from a number of clients, affecting the production of end-market devices such as Chromebooks, according to...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Persistently strong demand for MOSFET chips and niche-type DRAM have kept backend specialists including Walton Advanced Engineering, ChipMos Technologies and GEM Services running at capacity utilization of over 90% with order visibility through...

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC's bold US$100 billion capex plan for the next three years has greatly boosted the confidence of its ecosystem partners about bright prospects for the semiconductor industry, inspiring them to carry out capacity expansions, according to...

Media -- DIGITIMES - TSMC is likely to provide a revision to its capex target for 2021 at its upcoming earnings conference call scheduled for April 15, according to market observers.

Media -- DIGITIMES - The short supply of automobile-use Ethernet chips from Taiwan-based Realtek Semiconductor is unlikely to result in significant impacts on the global automotive supply chains, according to industry observers.

Media -- Design And Reuse - Dialog Shareholders Approve Resolutions related to the Acquisition by Renesas Electronics Corporation of Dialog Semiconductor Plc

Media -- SemiMedia - STMicroelectronics, Atos, Dassault Systemes, Renault Group and Thales recently announced a collaboration to create the Software Republique, a new ecosystem for innovation in intelligent mobility. By pooling their complementary expertise, the...

Media -- Evertiq - Renesas say that the N3 Building (300mm line) clean room at Naka Factory resumed operations on Friday April 9.