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Qualcomm Opens Semiconductor Test Manufacturing Site in Shanghai

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) today announced the opening of Qualcomm Communication Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., a semiconductor test facility in the Waigaoqiao (WGQ) free-trade zone in Shanghai, and its first foray into providing manufacturing services for semiconductors. By working with Amkor Technology, Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of contract

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Verification, Validation, Testing of ASIC/SOC designs – What are the differences?

If you are involved in any ASIC/SOC design life cycle, it is highly likely that you would have heard questions like – Have you verified a feature?  Is all feature testing completed?  How will you validate a new feature?  What design defects were found and how?
 
The terminologies Verification,

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Semiconductor Wafer Mask Costs

Semiconductor lithography and wafer mask set have developed dramatically in recent years. As technology migrated into nanometer geometries mask set price has increased exponentially.
 
The good news is that mask cost is decreasing every year due to maturity in production process and other factors such as market demand, competition

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Infographic: Top 10 Semiconductor Sales (1H 2016)

An infographics that shows the 10 top semiconductor companies sales in 1H of 2016. Please find a larger version of the inforgraphic here.
 

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What is Semiconductors 3.0?

Artificial intelligence brain with circuits and data streams

I am sick and tired to hear the same buzzwords a zillion times every single day. IoT, Cognitive Computing, Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Smart-whatever (from objects to cities and pretty soon toilet paper, I’m afraid). What really makes me sick is that these buzzwords are used,

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Ridgetop Group and BaySand Partner to Expand Mixed-Signal IP Portfolio

Ridgetop Group, Inc. and Silicon Valley-based BaySand Inc., the leader in application configurable application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), today announced they will work cooperatively to develop a series of new applications to increase their existing mixed-signal intellectual property core (IP) portfolios.
 
Through a wide-ranging partnership, they also will offer

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Unveils 12nm FD-SOI Process Node

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a new 12nm FD-SOI semiconductor technology mode, extending its leadership position by offering the industry’s first multi-node FD-SOI roadmap. Building on the success of its 22FDXTM offering, the company’s next-generation 12FDXTM platform is designed to enable the intelligent systems of tomorrow across a range of applications, from mobile

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IoT Semiconductor Market will reach $29.6B in 2019

Global growth in the number of “things” connected to the Internet continues to significantly outpace the addition of human users to the World Wide Web.  New connections to the “Internet of Things” are now increasing by more than 6x the number of people being added to the “Internet of Humans”

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Investment: Wafer Level Packaging Company Receives $51.5M Investment

Deca Technologies, a wafer level packaging provider to the semiconductor industry, announced today the receipt of an additional $51.5 million investment from a leading electronics company. Combined with the previously announced investment from ASE of $60 million, and following the repurchase of $20.6 million of shares held by Cypress Semiconductor Corp.,

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Semiconductor Foundries Sales Growth 2014-2016

IC Insights released its August Update to the 2016 McClean Report earlier this month.  This Update included an update of the semiconductor industry capital spending forecast, a look at the top-25 semiconductor suppliers for1H16, including a forecast for the full year ranking, and Part 1 of

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