Category Archives: ASIC Industry Market Trends

Top 25 Semiconductor Sales Leaders Ranked by Growth

IC Insights’ November Update to The McClean Report was recently released.  Included in the update were several year-end forecasts for semiconductor sales, capex, and a ranking of top sales leaders. Among the data was IC Insights’ projected ranking of the top 25 semiconductor suppliers ranked by sales growth rate.
 
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French Semiconductor Ecosystem: Design House IC’Alps Raises €4.2 Million To Sustain Business Growth For Custom Chip Design

Meylan, FRANCE – October 26, 2021 – Acting on General Shareholders Meeting, semiconductor company IC’Alps announced today it has raised €4.2 Million from French industrial group DOLIAM. Headquartered in France, IC’Alps specializes in the design and supply of exclusive and custom-made ASIC solutions (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits). This funding round will

Chip M&A Deals Reach $22 Billion in First Eight Months of 2021

After a surge in semiconductor merger and acquisition announcements in the second half of 2020, the strong M&A momentum carried into the beginning of 2021, with purchase agreements for chip companies, business units, product lines, and related assets reaching a total value of $15.8 billion in 1Q21, setting a record-high

BRUCO IC Opens 3rd Design Office in Berlin, Germany

Bruco Integrated Circuits is very pleased to announce that on September 1st, 2021 our first design office abroad has been officially opened in Berlin, Germany. Bruco IC has already design offices in Borne (HQ) and Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a RF measurement laboratory in Borne, the Netherlands.
 

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Q2-2021 Top Semiconductor Sales Leaders

IC Insights released its August Update to the 2021 McClean Report this month, which includes a review of the top-25 semiconductor sales leaders for 2Q21. The top-10 suppliers for 2Q are covered in this research bulletin.
 
Semiconductor sales include ICs and optoelectronics, sensors, and discretes (O-S-Ds).  The top-10 semiconductor sales leaders for 2Q21

CAST IP Helps Socionext Develop Advanced Autonomous Driving Systems

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey and Yokohama, Japan, August 5, 2021 — IP cores and related support services from intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. have significantly facilitated the development of advanced automobile driving solutions by leading Systems-on-Chip provider Socionext, Inc.
 
Socionext serves customers worldwide by designing, developing, and delivering System-on-Chip