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Intel in talks to be anchor investor in Arm IPO
Intel in talks to be anchor investor in Arm IPO
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Chip giant Intel Corp. is in talks with Arm Ltd. about being an anchor investor in the processor IP licensor’s…
Top ten foundries saw 1Q23 revenue drop, rankings change
Top ten foundries saw 1Q23 revenue drop, rankings change
Market news |
The top ten foundries in the world – responsible for about 98 percent of sales – saw revenue decline by…
Ex-Samsung exec arrested over alleged Chinese copycat fab
Ex-Samsung exec arrested over alleged Chinese copycat fab
Business news |
A senior executive formerly with Samsung Electronics has been arrested over the alleged theft of trade secrets intended to be…
ST, GloFo interested in Newport wafer fab, says report
ST, GloFo interested in Newport wafer fab, says report
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Chipmakers STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries have both expressed a potential interest in buying a wafer fab in Newport, South Wales, according…

Europe shone as chip market fall slowed in April
Europe shone as chip market fall slowed in April
Market news |
The global chip market showed signs it was reaching a turning point in April, with the European region showing year-on-year growth. The latest figures from the from the Semiconductor Industry…
WSTS lowers global chip market forecast for 2023
WSTS lowers global chip market forecast for 2023
Feature articles |
The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization has dropped its forecast for the chip market in 2023 and expects it to contract by 10.3 percent. The global semiconductor market is predicted…
Agile Analog launches first complete RISC-V analog IP subsystem
Agile Analog launches first complete RISC-V analog IP subsystem
New Products |
Agile Analog has brought together its customisable IP blocks to create the first complete analog IP subsystem for battery-powered RISC-V chips. The initial subsystem includes all the analog IP required…
Inside ADI’s Catalyst Centre
Inside ADI’s Catalyst Centre
Feature articles |
The Catalyst Centre in Limerick is a centrepiece of the Analog Devices strategy for Europe. The building hosts a number of co-development environments, ranging from wireless battery management systems through…
Singapore startup offers design services down to 3nm
Singapore startup offers design services down to 3nm
New Products |
Sinble Technology Pte Ltd. (Singapore) is a 2022 startup formed to offer IC and subsystem design services with expertise in 8nm and above down to 3nm FinFET manufacturing processes. The…
China’s Innoscience denies EPC claims of GaN patent infringement
China’s Innoscience denies EPC claims of GaN patent infringement
Business news |
Innoscience, a Chinese startup that manufactures GaN-on-Si power transistors, has called lawsuits filed by US headquartered “malicious” and “at odds with the facts.” Innoscience Technology Co. Ltd. (Zhuhai China) said…
Blue Cheetah releases 16Gbps chiplet IP
Blue Cheetah releases 16Gbps chiplet IP
New Products |
Blue Cheetah Analog Design Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) has announced it has made its 2Gbps to 16Gbps BlueLynx die-to-die interconnect IP in a 12nm test chip. The successful working of the…
Ultra-low-latency audio over Bluetooth wireless
Ultra-low-latency audio over Bluetooth wireless
Business news |
Virscient has launched an ultra-low-latency audio technology for low power wireless links with a reference design from Nordic Semiconductor. LiveOnAir is aimed at digital wireless microphones and in-ear monitors used…
Chip market to turn up in 2Q23, says SEMI
Chip market to turn up in 2Q23, says SEMI
Market news |
The contraction of the global chip market is going to “moderate” in 2Q23 with a gradual recovery starting in 3Q23, according to industry body SEMI. SEMI said it expects both…
MediaTek, Seiko Epson back MEMS timing startup Stathera
MediaTek, Seiko Epson back MEMS timing startup Stathera
Business news |
Stathera Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) a 2020 startup that provides MEMS timing solutions, has raised CA$15 million (about US$11 million) in Series A funding. The investment in Stathera was co-led…
Anello makes ‘world’s smallest’ claim for inertial navigation system
Anello makes ‘world’s smallest’ claim for inertial navigation system
New Products |
Photonic gyro startup Anello Photonics Inc. has started selling a GNSS satellite plus inertial navigation system (INS). The company claims this is the world’s smallest optical gyroscopic INS and suitable…
A Spark of Light in Solar Inverter Testing
A Spark of Light in Solar Inverter Testing
Business news |
Fraunhofer ISE has announced a new international test standard for PV inverters with integrated arc fault detection systems   With the newly published international standard IEC 63027, more reliable and…
Ceva, ProteanTecs partner to offer monitoring of SoCs
Ceva, ProteanTecs partner to offer monitoring of SoCs
Partners |
ProteanTecs Ltd. (Haifa, Israel), the startup that embeds software agents on chips to monitor performance, has formed a partnership with IP licensor Ceva Inc. (Rockville, Maryland). The two companies have…
Applied Materials to build $4 billion R&D center in Silicon Valley
Applied Materials to build $4 billion R&D center in Silicon Valley
Technology News |
Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing equipment company, has said it will build a collaborative R&D centre at its headquarters campus. The Equipment and Process…
Micron to make 1-gamma DRAMs in Japan, Taiwan
Micron to make 1-gamma DRAMs in Japan, Taiwan
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Micron has said it will spend 500 billion yen (about US$3.6 billion) over the next few years bringing 1γ (1-gamma) DRAM process technology to its wafer fab in Hiroshima, Japan.
Free PCB design service uses AI in the cloud
Free PCB design service uses AI in the cloud
New Products |
AI startup InstaDeep Ltd. (London, England) is offering a free PCB design service to electronics companies. Engineers upload schematics in the ‘.dsn’ file format and receive layout files for the…
UK funds startup Lumai for optical AI
UK funds startup Lumai for optical AI
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UK startup company Lumai Ltd. (Oxford, England) has been awarded a £1.1 million grant by the UK government to commercialize its work on all-optical neural networks. A spin-off from Oxford…
Interview: ADI’s Martin Cotter on how Europe is driving change
Interview: ADI’s Martin Cotter on how Europe is driving change
Interviews |
After Analog Devices’ announcement of plans to invest €630 million at its European regional headquarters in Limerick, Ireland, we spoke with Martin Cotter, President of Analog Devices for the European…
Foundry Tower in limbo, returns reasonable results
Foundry Tower in limbo, returns reasonable results
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Specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) saw its revenue fall by 15.4 percent on an annual basis in the 1Q23. However, the company was able to increase its…
Analog Devices taps Europe for €630m fab in Ireland
Analog Devices taps Europe for €630m fab in Ireland
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Analog Devices is to invest €630m and triple wafer capacity at its European regional headquarters in Limerick, Ireland. The investment is part of Ireland’s first Important Projects of Common European…
Indian chip startups get seed funds from Sequoia Capital
Indian chip startups get seed funds from Sequoia Capital
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InCore Semiconductors and Mindgrove Technologies – both based in Chennai, India – have both received seed funding in rounds led by Sequoia Capital India. In the case of InCore Semi…
IMEC maps out monolithic CFET at VLSI Symposium
IMEC maps out monolithic CFET at VLSI Symposium
Technology News |
IMEC researchers are due to report on a monolithic silicon nanosheet Complementary Field-Effect Transistors (CFETs) at the upcoming 2023 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits. The conference is due to…
Foundries’ April sales stay far below last year’s
Foundries’ April sales stay far below last year’s
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April sales at TSMC were down 14.3 percent year-on-year and for neighbor foundry United Microelectronics Corp. they fell 19 percent amid continued market weakness. TSMC’s April sales figures are in…
Canadian startup demos AI for analog chip layout
Canadian startup demos AI for analog chip layout
Business news |
Startup Astrus Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has developed an AI engine for analog circuit layout that it reckons can speed up chip design by multiple orders of magnitude. Astrus plans to…


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