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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Launches RF Ecosystem Program to Accelerate Time-to-Market for Wireless Connectivity, Radar and 5G Applications

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a new ecosystem partner program, called RFwave™, designed to simplify RF design and help customers reduce time-to-market for a new era of wireless devices and networks.
 
The last few years there has been an increasing demand for connected devices and systems that will require innovations in

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