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Samsung’s Big Semi Capex Spending Keeps Pressure on Competition

IC Insights revised its outlook for total semiconductor industry capital spending and presented its forecast of semiconductor capex spending for individual companies in its November Update to The McClean Report 2018, which was released earlier this month.
 
Samsung is expected to have the largest capex budget of any IC supplier again in

MicroBT employs Moortec’s 16nm Embedded Temperature Sensor in their HPC ASIC

Moortec, providers of complete In-Chip Monitoring PVT Subsystems today announced that Shenzhen MicroBT Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. have employed Moortec’s 16FFC Temperature Sensor IP in their latest high performance computing (HPC) ASIC.
 

 
HPC is highly intensive in terms of CPU activity and requires ever increasing levels of

Efabless Launches the Chiplicity Design Partner Program Featuring Chipus Microelectronics, Sankalp Semiconductor and Symmid Corporation

SAN JOSE, CA — Efabless, a crowd-sourcing design platform for custom silicon, today announced the launch of the Chiplicity Design Partner Program. The program supports ASIC and IP design partners across multiple services provided by the Efabless platform in responding to requests and developing custom ICs for product OEM or

IC Packaging: consumer solutions are adapted for automotive applications

“Automotive is the new El Dorado for microelectronics,” announces Emilie Jolivet, Director, Semiconductor & Software at Yole Développement (Yole). The market is showing significant market drivers that are daily supporting the growth: electrification, connectivity, autonomy and comfort are the key words of the today’s automotive industry.
 
Under this dynamic context, the market research

Presto Engineering’s Extensive Test Capabilities Enable It to Offer Customers Parallel Testing of Automotive Products to Provide Much Faster Time to Market

Automotive electronics testing is one of the most exacting of all test and qualification protocols before production release because of the safety and liability considerations. The AEC Q100 revisions, ZVEI and its French equivalent SIA for accelerated environment stress tests not only list the time or number of cycles that

Sankalp Semiconductor announces ARM Empowered Design Suite

Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced ARM Empowered Design, a suite for ARM based concept to product realization services with special emphasis on IoT and intelligent edge solutions. ARM Empowered Design offers customized engagement models that complement customer