 
						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, 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
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						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 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
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						The biggest adjustments to the original MR18 IC market forecasts were to the memory market; specifically the DRAM and NAND flash segments.  The DRAM and NAND flash memory market growth forecasts for 2018 have been adjusted upward to 37% for DRAM (13% shown in MR18) and 17% for NAND flash (10% shown in MR18).
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						esting CMOS image sensors on a wafer-size scale is not easy because of the challenges of creating uniform illumination over a large area. Presto Engineering has developed a custom, computer-controlled solution that illuminates sections of the wafer in turn. Integrating the results enables the whole wafer to be tested automatically
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