Smart sensor firm ams is going from strength to strength. With a number of high-profile design-ins in the mobile and wearables markets, including the Apple Watch, the Austria-based semiconductor company has expanded is presence in the Asian market. It has opened a new office in Pangyo, South Korea to address the growing market for mobile and biotech. This follows the ...
Nujira’s life as an independent company seems to have ended. A report in Business Weekly, which broke the story two weeks ago says that the Cambridge-based developer of mobile power optimisation technology has been bought by US mobile chip giant Qualcomm for $50m. Nujira’s website has effectively closed down and an unconfirmed report says the CEO and a number of ...
Plessey Semiconductors has started its £1.3m government-funded project to accelerate GaN-on-Si LED production at its Devon site. “This project supports the work we have on-going with Aixtron and Bruker to increase the yield of our GaN-on-Silicon process,” said Plessey CTO Dr Keith Strickland. “These improvements are required as part of our move to 200mm silicon substrates. 200mm wafers will almost ...
Year-on-year PC shipments fell 11.8% in Q2, to 66.8 million units, says IDC, after a 6.7% decline in Q1. Gartner puts the decline at 9.5% to 68.4 million. For the full year IDC sees a 4.4% decline and Gartner a low-to-mid single-digit decline. Lenovo is number one supplier with a 20.3% share, followed by HP with 19.4%, Dell with 14.5%, Acer ...
Cree has bought APEI, the power modules and power electronics specialist, to extend its power and RF business and accelerate the market for SiC power modules. The companies already collaborate on multiple government contracts. “Extending our research and development capabilities with APEI, a leader in wide bandgap power R&D, will help us accelerate delivery of a full spectrum of SiC ...
UltraSoC, the embedded systems debug specialist, has appointed Gajinder (“Gadge”) Panesar as its CTO, succeeding UltraSoC co-founder Dr Andrew Hopkins. Panesar joins UltraSoC from Nvidia. Before Nvidia he was Chief Architect at Picochip and Mindspeed and has worked at ST, Inmos and Acorn. He holds 20 patents. “Gadge is one of the foremost SoC architects in Europe, combining profound technical ...
IBM, GloFo and Samsung have produced a 7nm test chip with functional transistors using SiGe and EUV. The chip was built at the IBM/SUNY (State University of New York) Polytechnic 300mm research facility in Albany. The finfet transistors using SiGe in the channel. were fabricated using self-aligned quadruple patterning (SAQR) and EUV lithography is used. Density improvement over 10nm is ...
Sales of phones with 5 inch plus screens, so called “phablets”, will overtake tablet sales in 2015, reports IC Insights. Shipments of 5 inch plus phones will reach 252 million units in 2015, which is a 66% increase from the 152 million sold in 2014. Strong growth in large-screen smartphones is having a major impact on tablet unit sales, which ...
Avnet Abacus has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Taiwan’s MechaTronix, the LED cooling specialist. From its roots as a designer and manufacturer of interconnection and packaging systems for a range of electronics applications, MechaTronix has become a supplier of thermal management products for solid-state lighting applications. Thermal management, now a critical factor in LED fixtures, has prompted MechaTronix to develop a range ...
IQD has introduced a high frequency, low jitter clock oscillator with low phase jitter of less than 0.5ps rms max (over 12kHz to 20MHz) irrespective of which output is specified. Housed in a hermetically sealed 2.5×2.0mm ceramic six-pad package, the new model is available in a wide frequency rang,e from 8MHz to an extremely high 1.5GHz. The IQXO-931 is primarily ...
