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Semiconductor Equipment maker KLA-Tencor to buy Orbotech for $3.4 billion

KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) (“KLA-Tencor”) and Orbotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: ORBK) (“Orbotech”) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which KLA-Tencor will acquire Orbotech for $38.86 in cash and 0.25 of a share of KLA-Tencor common stock in exchange for each ordinary share of Orbotech, implying a

HiTrend selects Dolphin Integration’s cache controller for its next generation of smart energy metering chips

Smart grid for energy management in smart cities represents a new challenge for electrical providers. The growing demand in managing and controlling energy consumption requires innovative equipment with advanced metering, grid control technics and asset monitoring.
 
HiTrend leads the domestic smart meter IC industry with its analog and digital

CEO Talk: Rafi Albarian, Integra Technologies

This interview was held with Rafi Albarian, SVP, Strategic Initiatives with Integra Technologies.

Tell me a bit about your background? How did you first get started with Integra Technologies?
 
I am an accomplished, data-driven senior-level executive with over 23-year track record of successful strategic and tactical leadership in the Semiconductor Industry,

Silicon Creations’ PMA Technology Part of Microsemi Award-Winning FPGA

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced that its multi-protocol serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceiver Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) intellectual property (IP) was part of Microsemi Corporation’s PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA), named 2017 “Product of the Year” by Electronics Products magazine, as well as

IC Design Flow – An Overview

Today, IC design flow is a very solid and mature process. The overall IC design flow and the various steps within the IC design flow have proven to be both practical and robust in multi-millions IC designs until now.
 
Each and every step of the IC design flow has a

Mobile Semiconductor Introduces 28nm Memory Compiler Support

Mobile Semiconductor today announced the introduction of its new 28nm memory compilers available immediately. Mobile Semiconductor’s silicon-proven embedded memory technology offers nine 28SLP GLOBALFOUNDRIES foundry sponsored compilers reaching all the way down to a 0.8V nominal power supply. Mobile Semiconductor also works with other top tier foundries delivering industry leading