Category Archives: ASIC Industry Market Trends

What is a System on Chip (SoC)?

A system on a chip, also known as an SoC, is essentially an integrated circuit or an IC that takes a single platform and integrates an entire electronic or computer system onto it. It is, exactly as its name suggests, an entire system on a single chip. The components that

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Semiconductor Industry Capex History and Forecast 1983-2020

IC Insights will release its 200+ page Mid-Year Update to the 2019 McClean Report next month.  A portion of the Mid-Year Update will examine semiconductor industry capital spending trends with an industry-wide forecast through 2023.  In addition, the Update will include IC Insights’ capital spending forecast for each of the 32 major spenders for 2019 and

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Worldwide IC Company Market by Location – 2018

IC Insights will release its 200+ page Mid-Year Update to the 2019 McClean Report next month. A portion of the Mid-Year Update will examine the trends for worldwide IC company marketshare by headquarters location.
 
Figure 1 shows the 2018 IDM and fabless company shares of IC sales as well as the total worldwide share of

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CSEM and MIFS demonstrate world-record lows in energy consumption for a microcontroller.

Neuchatel, 19 June 2019—Combining CSEM’s ultra-low-power ASIC design experience with the Extreme-Low Power (ELP) DDC technology from MIFS enables new world records in power consumption. A complete process design kit, along with a range of mixed-signal silicon IPs, is now available.
 
The phenomenal growth of the Internet of Things

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Communications IC Market to Again Surpass Computer IC Market

IC Insights will release its June Update to the 2019 McClean Report later this month.  This Update includes a 2017-2023 IC database that segments the actual 2017 and 2018 and forecasted 2019-2023 IC market by major product type by Consumer, Auto, Computer, Industrial, Communications, and Government/Military end-use applications in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Asia-Pacific

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Infineon to acquire Cypress, strengthening and accelerating its path of profitable growth

Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Infineon will acquire Cypress for US$23.85 per share in cash, corresponding to an enterprise value of €9.0 billion.
 
Reinhard Ploss, CEO of Infineon,

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