Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Business Wire -- United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) ("UMC"), today reported unaudited net sales for the month of July 2020. Revenues for July 2020 Period 2020 2019 Y/Y Change Y/Y (%) July 15,494,823 13,728,148 +1,766,675 +12.87% Jan.-July 102,148,930...

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - This market report was written on July 30, 2020 by Ben Yeh, analyst for DRAMeXchange at TrenForce Corp. After spot prices have been falling for some time, the NAND flash market is formally seeing a general decline in contract...

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Microsoft Corp.'s M12 arm has placed a bet on Syntiant Inc., the startup behind tiny artificial intelligence chips for connected devices that it says is 100 times more power-efficient than rivals. M12 co-led a $35 million funding round...

PR Newswire -- While the IoT continues to bring greater conveniences into our lives, left unprotected, smart devices could also open the door to malicious attacks that burrow into networks and attempt to access sensitive data. With its newest cryptographic...

Aspencore -- EDN - Governments and organizations in quest of strategies to manage the COVID-19 pandemic are deploying a wide variety of technological solutions. One technology that has been gaining a lot of traction is Bluetooth contact tracing. This wireless protocol...

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - The impressive qualities of GaN and SiC have made them endearing to all in the industry. However, it has thrown up the challenge of meeting demands in production and supply as a result, professionals, investors, and industrialists...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - In a recent episode of EETimes On Air, EETimes editor-in-chief Brian Santo and the site's international editor Junko Yoshida spoke about Ford's decision to use Mobileye's hardware and software for its global product lines. The following is...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Right now, the AI chip market is all about deep learning. Deep learning (DL) is the most successful of machine learning paradigms at making AI applications useful in the real world.

The AI chip market today is all about accelerating deep learning...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Growing remote workforces and future 5G and Wi-Fi 6 deployments mean that enterprises will become increasingly borderless. This entails a move from data center to the enterprise edge, and Marvell intends to capitalize on the trend with the introduction...

Business Wire -- ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ON) today announced that 2020 second quarter revenue was $1,213.5 million, down approximately 10 percent compared to 2019 second quarter revenue. 2020 second quarter revenue was down approximately 5 percent as compared...

Business Wire -- Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the market leader in MRAM, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. Second Quarter and Recent Highlights Total revenue increased 37% year-over-year and 17% sequentially to...

Business Wire -- Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. Second Quarter Highlights Revenue was $288.7 million, an increase of 2.8 percent compared to $280.7 million in the first quarter 2020;...

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced that Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA) selected the Lattice ECP5(tm) FPGA to enable MIPI bridging capabilities in systems using Ambarella CVflow(r) SoCs....

Globe Newswire -- Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (Nasdaq: CCMP), a leading global supplier of consumable materials to semiconductor manufacturers and pipeline companies, today reported financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2020, which ended June 30, 2020.

Globe Newswire -- Micron Technology, Inc., (NASDAQ: MU) today announced the appointment of Kris Baxter to the role of corporate vice president and general manager of Micron's Embedded Business Unit (EBU). Baxter succeeds Jeff Bader, who is departing Micron to pursue other...

Globe Newswire -- SiTime Corporation, (Nasdaq: SITM), a market leader in MEMS timing, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020.

Electronics -- On Semi - ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy efficient innovations, today announced it is exploring a sale of its manufacturing facility in Niigata, Japan. The intended sale of Niigata facility is...

Electronics -- Infineon - Infineon Technologies (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) has received two supplier awards from Japanese automotive supplier DENSO. Infineon is the first recipient of the "Special Contribution Award". This award was...

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Electronics -- Qualcomm - New Lineup of Samsung Devices Include Galaxy Note20 Ultra, Note20, Galaxy Z Fold2, and Galaxy Tab S7/S7+



Following Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced that its latest premium tier Qualcomm(r)...

Electronics -- Qualcomm - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced today the commencement of a transaction to exchange four series of its outstanding notes totaling $7.0 billion. The exchange transaction consists of four separate private...

Electronics -- Intel - Intel and VMware Inc. today announced a collaboration on an integrated software platform for virtualized radio access networks (RAN) to accelerate the rollout of both existing LTE and future 5G networks.

Life -- Phys.org - NUS physicists have demonstrated the control of magnetism in a magnetic semiconductor via electrical means, paving the way for novel spintronic devices.

Life -- Phys.org - Silicon is widely used in the microelectronics industry although its photonics applications are restricted to the visible and partial near-infrared spectral range due to its fundamental optical bandgap. Researchers have therefore used recent...

U.S. News -- The founder of China's largest chipmaker SMIC said on Tuesday he was "optimistic" China could catch up with the United States...

PR Newswire -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors were $34.5 billion in June 2020, an increase of 5.1 percent from the June 2019 total of $32.9 billion. Sales in June were 0.3 percent less than the May...

PR Newswire -- CalAmp (Nasdaq: CAMP), a global technology solutions pioneer transforming the mobile connected economy, today announced Amal M. Johnson has been appointed to Chair of the CalAmp Board of Directors. Johnson has sat on the board for nearly seven...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - A Silicon Valley startup claims that it has reinvented the neural network mathematics and has produced a complementary edge AI chip, already sampling, that does not use the usual large array of multiply-accumulate (MAC) units. The chip...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Eta Compute's tool chain is growing, with the announcement of a compiler for its ECM3532 chip that streamlines embedded development.

Combined with a sensor board evaluation kit the size of a coin, and a partnership with Edge Impulse, this pushes...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Ultra-low-power AI accelerator startup Syntiant has raised another $35 million in a series C round of funding to bring the total raised by the company to $65 million. Syntiant, whose 66 staff work out of Irvine, Calif., also announced that it...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Infineon Technologies AG reported operating margins in its key top business segment tumbled into negative territory in its latest quarter as the company and other suppliers struggled with the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic...

Business Wire -- MaxLinear, Inc. announces completion of its acquisition of Intel's Home Gateway Platform division.

Globe Newswire -- Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions, today announced the appointment of Lynn Dugle to its board of directors. Dugle has more than 30 years of experience in the defense, intelligence and high-tech...

Globe Newswire -- Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions, today reported results for the three months ended June 30, 2020 as summarized in the following table:

Globe Newswire -- Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of 36.80 cents per...

Globe Newswire -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced availability of new AMD Radeon(tm) Pro 5000 series GPUs for the updated 27-inch iMac. The new GPUs power a wide variety of graphically intensive applications and workloads, unleashing creativity and productivity for consumer...

Electronics -- NXP Blog - Like every semiconductor company, we spend a lot of time talking to design engineers about what they're working on and the features they're adding to their systems. These days, we're hearing a lot about wireless connectivity and with it, some...

Electronics -- MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. ("MACOM"), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions, today announced at the virtual

Electronics -- MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. ("MACOM"), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions, today

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Globe Newswire -- Technology - The Flashtec NVMe 3108 controller enables power and form-factor optimized enterprise NVMe SSDs with Flashtec's trademark rich feature set and flexibility The Flashtec NVMe 3108 controller enables power and form-factor optimized enterprise...

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - Enables cutting-edge solutions for 5G and high-performance RF switch markets with record Figure of Merit performance: Ron x Coff less than 10 femtoseconds

Electronics -- Intel - What's New: With Gen Z's representation in the global workforce set to pass 1 billion by 2030, organizations need to understand the demographic group's motivations and perspectives on critical issues such as diversity and inclusion. Intel commissioned...

Electronics -- Infineon - Neubiberg, Germany, 4 August 2020 - Infineon Technologies AG is today reporting results for the third quarter of the 2020 fiscal year (period ended 30 June 2020). ...

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Electronics -- Intel - Imagine a herd of 650 adult Asian elephants. Now imagine lifting that entire herd off the ground with one gigantic hoist. That's the 2,600-ton capacity of one of the world's biggest construction cranes - known to all who behold it as "Big Blue."...

Electronics -- TI - Motor Drive + Control - A trend in the rapid growth of smart grids is enabling more intelligent functions in residential equipment, such as smart electricity meters and data concentrators. A smart grid requires a multi - communication approach to...

Electronics -- Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) today announced its collaboration with Intel Corporation to create a flexible radio platform that addresses 5G network design challenges and will enable customers to scale their 5G networks more quickly and economically.

Electronics -- TI - ConnecTIng Wirelessly - In just a few decades, the world has seen the replacement of human-operated machinery and vehicles with intelligent versions now operated autonomously or with less human intervention. With such rapid growth, the industrial...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - STMicroelectronics N.V. wants to jack up annual revenue within the next several years by more than $2 billion, or 20 percent, above its projected 2020 sales. But is ST, one of the semiconductor industry's leading suppliers, chasing the...