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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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Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced its FPGA-to-ASIC conversion service has successfully completed several AI related projects including drone vision, medical image analysis, smart appliances, and 3D sensing. It brings remarkable power saving, enhanced performance and lower system cost to meet
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According to PR Newswire, being fueled by the rising demand for voice enabled devices, the global smart speaker market is likely to grow at a CAGR of 43.68% in terms of unit shipment during 2016–2022.
Early innovators as well as market leaders of these newly marketed products are demanding
This CEO talk was held with Eli Geva, CEO of Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST)
Tell me a bit about your background? How did you first get started with AST?
I’ve started to work at AST as a young ASIC engineer back in 1991 and my first project was
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is a type of a chip with a specific usage which can have a combination of analogue & digital functions, CPU, controllers, and diverse types of memory. The following are the benefits of using an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) in your project:
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Malaysian-based wafer foundry SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Silterra) and Brazilian based Chipus Microeletrônica S.A. (Chipus) have jointly announced a partnership to provide analog IP solutions focusing on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market for their mutual customers. This announcement marks a significant milestone of the multi-year collaboration between SilTerra and Chipus.
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Presto Engineering Inc., an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, and Maja Systems, a world-leading designer of millimeter wave (mmWave) connectivity and sensing solutions, jointly announce their successful collaboration in comprehensive wafer-level ATE for the Maja AirData™ family of terabit connectivity and data transport solutions.
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Moortec, providers of In-Chip Monitoring PVT Subsystems solutions are pleased to announce that Canaan-Creative have employed Moortec’s In-Chip Monitoring Subsystem in their HPC IC.
Canaan-Creative is a worldwide leader in the design of high performance computing IC. “We have compared performance from other companies with Moortec’s and find that PVT
Silvaco today announced that it has acquired NanGate, a leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, that offers tools and services for creation, optimization, characterization and validation of physical library IP.
NanGate’s Library Creation Platform has been deployed by a large number of semiconductor companies creating standard cell libraries