Category Archives: ASIC Industry Market Trends

asicNorth announces immediate availability of its IoT Endpoint ASIC Platform

asicNorth is pleased to announce immediate availability of its silicon proven platform to rapidly deploy IoT Endpoint ASICs – IoTa. Samples are available for prototype development.
 
IoTa is structured to be highly configurable enabling support for various radio protocols, ARM Cortex®-M0 compatible peripherals, analog/mixed-signal requirements, and external sensors. IoTa

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Sankalp Semiconductor receives investment from Stakeboat Capital Fund

Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions today announced that it has received investment from Stakeboat Capital Fund, a value oriented, alternative investment fund. The strategic investment from Stakeboat Capital will enable Sankalp Semiconductor to grow at an accelerated pace in

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CoreHW accelerates growth – Panostaja invests in CoreHW by purchasing a majority shareholding

On Friday 15th September, CoreHW has signed an agreement on selling the shares in CoreHW to Panostaja Plc. After the transaction Panostaja will own 63 per cent of the new group to be formed through the transaction.
 
Panostaja is an investment company developing Finnish SMEs in the role of an

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Value of Semiconductor Industry M&A Deals Slows Dramatically in 1H17

The historic flood of merger and acquisition agreements that swept through the semiconductor industry in the past two years slowed to a trickle in the first half of 2017, with the combined value of about a dozen transactions announced in 1H17 reaching just $1.4 billion.
 
In the first halves of 2016

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2017 IC Market Growth by Segment

IC Insights has revised its outlook and analysis of the IC industry and presented its new findings in the Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2017, which originally was published in January 2017.  Among the revisions is a complete update of forecast growth rates of the 33 main product categories classified by the World

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Memory IC Market Poised for Strongest Annual Growth Through 2021

Sales of memory ICs are expected to show the strongest growth rate among major integrated circuit market categories during the next five years, according to IC Insights’ new 2017 McClean Report, which becomes available this month.  The 20th anniversary edition of The McClean Report forecasts that revenues for memory products—including DRAMs and NAND

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