Regional marketshares of IDMs (companies operating wafer fabs), fabless companies, and total IC sales were led by U.S. headquartered companies in 2019, according to data presented in the recently released March Update to The McClean Report 2020.
Figure 1 shows U.S. companies held 55% of the total worldwide IC
Hsinchu, Taiwan (March 16, 2020) –eMemory, the world’s leading provider of intellectual property for non-volatile memory, today announced that its NeoMTP has been qualified on TSMC’s Third-Generation 0.18μm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process to provide IoT power-management solutions and cost competitiveness.
eMemory’s NeoMTP is a popular choice for chip designers making
When mobile phones changed into smart phones a proximity (PS) and ambient light sensor (ALS) became an important sensor in every phone. Measurement of ambient light is used to adjust the screen backlight. The proximity sensor is used to detect a person holding to phone near the ear. While some
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The primary yardstick by which the IC industry measures its technological performance and progress remains Moore’s Law that states there is a doubling of the number of transistors per chip every two years. It pertains to the growth rate of components per chip, but it is sometimes generalized to describe the
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araday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today introduced its low-DPPM solution for diversified applications. Instead of utilizing costly automotive standard compliance methods, this solution supports non-automotive ASIC projects by adopting much more cost-effective and efficient ways to achieve low defect rates and meet
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Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including integrated circuits and optoelectronics, sensors, and discrete (O-S-D) devices are forecast to rise 7% in 2020 and surpass one trillion units for the second time in history, based on data presented in the new, 2020 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of
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