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Faraday Announces LPDDR4/4X in Samsung 14LPC Process

araday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced its LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X combo PHY IP up to 4.2Gbps is now available in Samsung’s 14nm LPC process. The silicon proven solution provides smaller area, lower power, and high bandwidth for applications such as multi-media,

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Semiconductor Supply Chain

Figure 1: General Overview of the Semiconductor Supply Chain
 
Being one of the most complex supply chains in the world, the semiconductor supply chain is worth around $0.5 trillion and is often very difficult to understand and manipulate. But before we dive deeper, we need to know what

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Semiconductor Foundry

Figure 1: GlobalFoundries Fab1 in Dresden Germany
 
What is a Semiconductor Foundry?
In simple terms, a semiconductor foundry (also known as a fab) is a factory where silicon wafers are manufactured. The main customers of a semiconductor foundry are chip makers such as: Broadcom, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD and

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Presto Engineering and Cadence Collaborate on IC Packaging for Automotive and IoT Markets

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Meyreuil, France and San Jose, Calif., June 24, 2021—Presto Engineering, an ASIC design and outsourced operations provider, and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced a collaboration to broaden semiconductor package design solutions and expertise for high-performance system-in-package (SiP) development for the automotive and Industrial IoT markets. Presto is

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Silicon IP Provider Chips&Media Launches AV1 Video Encoder Hardware IP for 4K/UHD Video Resolutions and Beyond

Seoul, South Korea – June 17th, 2021 – Chips&Media, a worldwide leading hardware IP provider of video codec, computer vision, and image signal processing, today unveiled AV1 supported video encoder hardware IP WAVE627, from the newly released next-generation video codec IP platform, WAVE6.
 
The WAVE6 series is a newly designed

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Managing Space Grade RF Device Qualifications

What quality of on-board devices and components do you think are chosen for space missions? The answer is of course devices and components built to survive the most intense environmental factors presented in space.
To support our partners and industry colleagues, we’ve developed this blog to highlight the most important

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