Since March 2020, the pandemic has brought on scarcity in odd goods like toilet paper, baking flour and exercise equipment. The latest casualty is the auto industry as car production across the world has been hobbled by chip shortages. While much has been written about the role of semiconductor suppliers,
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Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announced that its Gigabit Ethernet PHY has been silicon proven on UMC’s 28HPC+ process and is now available for new ASIC SoC designs and IP licensing. This new IP, based on 28nm node, provides the benefits of
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OTTAWA, Canada, May, 2022 – DA-Integrated is adding additional test capacity and constructing a new facility in order to accommodate continued growth. The property at 27 Iber Road is in the heart of Canada’s microelectronics sector. The new location includes a 3,200 sq ft class 10,000 clean room with class 100
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May 3, 2022 — Silex Insight, a leading provider of cryptographic IP solutions, today entered into a partnership arrangement with leading IoT security company ZAYA, who delivers a secure OS containerisation technology for microcontrollers, called ZAYA μContainers. The ZAYA μContainers can be added to Silex Insight’s eSecure Root of Trust module
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IC Insights’ 2Q Update to The McClean Report 2022 will be released in May. It presents an analysis of the marketshare of the major semiconductor suppliers excluding the pure-play foundries (Figure 1). While there is a small amount of double-counting effect due to the IDM foundry revenue included in the figures, it is
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IC Insights’ February 1Q Update to The McClean Report 2022 includes an overview of IC industry capacity and wafer start trends from 2002 through 2026. This bulletin provides a brief summary.
The volatile nature of the IC industry is reflected by large swings in annual wafer starts. Over the past five years, for