Blog

1H2020 Top-10 Semiconductor Sales Leaders

IC Insights will release its August Update to the 2020 McClean Report later this month.  This Update includes a discussion of the IC foundry market trends and a look at the top-25 1H20 semiconductor suppliers.  The top-10 1H20 semiconductor suppliers are covered in this research bulletin.
 
The top-10 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete)

SiFive Secures $61 Million in Series E Funding

SAN MATEO, Calif. Aug 11, 2020 – SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced it raised $61 million in a Series E round led by SK hynix, joined by new investor Prosperity7 Ventures, with additional funding from existing investors, Sutter Hill Ventures, Western Digital

Covid-19 Expected to Limit Growth Rates For Many IC Products in 2020

IC Insights recently released its Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2020.  The update includes IC Insights’ ranking of revenue growth rates for the 33 IC product categories defined by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
 
Figure 1 shows the distribution of growth rates for the 33 IC product categories in

CAST HDLC/SDLC IP Core Now Ready for DO-254 Compliance in Airborne Systems

Woodcliff Lake, NJ — August 6, 2020 — Silicon intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. today announced a new version of its HDLC/SDLC IP core that helps avionics system developers achieve compliance with the DO-254 standard at the most stringent Design Assurance Level, DAL-A.
 
The new core variant was developed

CEO Talk: Steve Beckers, VP at imec

This interview was held with: Steve Beckers, VP at imec
 

 
Tell me a bit about your background. How did you start at imec/imec.IC-link?
With 37 years in the semiconductor industry, I consider myself a veteran. I started my career at Alcatel Microelectronics in 1983 and worked there

Faraday Launches Ariel™ SoC Platform with Infineon’s SONOS eFlash to Drive IoT Development

Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today launched its next generation IoT SoC development platform, called Ariel™, which is built on UMC’s 40uLP logic process combined with Infineon’s SONOS eFlash technology. Compared with its predecessor, the 55nm Uranus+™ platform, the Ariel platform demonstrates a 35% reduction