Category Archives: Wafer and Foundries

CSEM joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FDXcelerator™ Program bringing ultra-low-Power IP to 22FDX® process

Neuchatel, 24 September 2019 – CSEM, a leader in low-power RFIC design and embedded systems, announced today at GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) annual Global Technology Conference (GTC) that CSEM is developing ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy® (BLE), CMOS radar mmWave IP and embedded
machine-learning accelerators on GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX®) platform.
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MRAM, a promise beyond eFlash

Nowadays, there is broad consensus in the memory industry that the 28nm/22nm silicon lithography nodes will be the last technology nodes for eFlash[2]. This is not because of fundamental scalability limitations, but because of economic barriers. Therefore a new embedded NVM[3] for code/data storage is needed. At the same time, scaling

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CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) Sales 2013-2023

Despite an expected slowdown in growth this year and in 2020, the CMOS image sensor market is forecast to continue reaching record-high sales and unit volumes through 2023 with the spread of digital-imaging applications offsetting weakness in the global economy and the fallout from the U.S.-China trade war. CMOS image

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against TSMC In the U.S. and Germany

Santa Clara, Calif. August 26, 2019 – GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), the world’s leading specialty foundry based in the United States, today filed multiple lawsuits in the U.S. and Germany alleging that semiconductor manufacturing technologies used by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) infringe 16 GF patents. The lawsuits were filed today in

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Perceptia Joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES Events in Santa Clara, Munich

Perceptia Devices, Inc. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES have agreed that Perceptia will join GLOBALFOUNDRIES in Santa Clara, California, on September 24, 2019, and in Munich, Germany, on October 11, 2019. GLOBALFOUNDRIES will hold its Technology Conference (GTC) in these locations, and Perceptia will be pleased to present its first three IPs available

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Can We Believe The Hype About China’s Domestic IC Production Plans?

In the wake of tariffs and trade tension between China and the United States, government officials and company representatives throughout China have doubled down on their resolve to quickly and meaningfully grow the nation’s domestic IC business in order to reduce its dependence on critical IC components currently supplied by

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