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Austria’s ams acquires Heptagon become a worldwide leader in optical sensing

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Premstaetten, Austria (24 October 2016) – ams (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide manufacturer of high performance sensor and analog solutions, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Heptagon, the worldwide leader in high performance optical packaging and micro-optics. With this transaction, ams becomes the

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Hisense selects their SoC Fabric IP for IoT from Dolphin Integration

Launching any SoC on a highly competitive market demands a differentiation for which Hisense was searching for an ultra low-power solution to extend battery life-time of wireless-connected devices. Designing such an integrated circuit introduces new challenges: silicon area, power consumption and BoM cost must be aggressively reduced, while dealing with

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IC Market Forecast 2016 Raised from -2% to +1%

IC Insights will release its October Update to the 2016 McClean Report later this week.  This Update includes a review of IC Insights’ latest 2016 IC market forecast, an update on the rebounding DRAM market, and an extensive analysis of the optoelectronics, sensor/actuator, and discrete (O-S-D) markets. An excerpt from the

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asicNorth Announces a Development Ecosystem to streamline the creation of mixed-signal IoT SoC’s

Williston, VT October 17, 2016:  asicNorth announced today they have created a complete development ecosystem specifically targeted toward custom “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.  The asicNorth “IoT Design EcoSystem” is formed by linking key partners in system design, semiconductor design and process technology areas.  Joining asicNorth are SoC Solutions, Faraday

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Analog IC: TI Maintains Analog IC Leadership

The 2015 analog IC market grew 2% to $47.0 billion.  Combined sales of general-purpose analog IC products (amplifiers/comparators, interface, power management, an signal conversion devices) increased 2% to $19.1 billion and sales of application-specific analog devices also improved 2% to $27.9 billion. Among analog IC products the market for signal

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Asia-Pacific To Top 2016 Regional IC Sales In Major Categories

Asia-Pacific’s grip as the dominant market for IC sales is forecast to strengthen in 2016 with the region expected to account for 61.0% of the $282.0 billion IC market this year, based on analysis published in IC Insights’ mid-year Update to the 2016 IC Market Drivers report.

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