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AnySilicon Launches Online Package Price Estimation Tool

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AnySilicon, the fastest-growing semiconductor vendors platform has announced today the availability of its free Semiconductor Package Price Estimator which provides package price for all major semiconductor packaging type.
 
Using this free tool, companies can get quick price estimation for the packaging and assembly prices which are becoming critical in many

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$15 Million Investment in SerDes IP Company

Kandou Bus, S.A., the world’s highest performance and lowest energy SerDes technology company, has announced that it has completed a $15M investment with Bessemer Venture Partners. The resources will enable Kandou to expand research and accelerate the development, productization and deployment of Kandou’s Chord™ signaling SerDes technology. Kandou has developed

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Free Engineering Simulation Software To Students

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Students around the world now have free access to the same leading engineering simulation solutions used by top organizations and professional engineers to create the most advanced products on the planet, thanks to ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS).
 

 
Released today, ANSYS® Student is a free, introductory academic software package for

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IC Insights Lowers 2016 Semiconductor Market Forecast to -1%

The health of the semiconductor industry is increasingly tied to the health of the worldwide economy. Rarely can there be strong semiconductor market growth without at least “good” worldwide economic growth to support it. Consequently, IC Insights expects annual global semiconductor market growth rates to continue to closely track the performance

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Industry’s First Open-Source Chip Platforms by SiFive

SiFive, the first fabless semiconductor company to build customized, open-source enabled semiconductors, today announced its flagship Freedom family of system on a chip (SoC) platforms. Built around the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture invented by the company’s founders at the University of California, Berkeley, SiFive’s Freedom U500 and

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Synopsys Buys Glasgow EDA Startup to Boost Growth

Synopsys, Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of Gold Standard Simulations Ltd. (GSS), a leading provider of TCAD and EDA simulation solutions for design technology co-optimization (DTCO) of advanced process nodes. The acquisition of GSS supports the Synopsys TCAD strategy to offer a comprehensive solution to reduce development time and cost

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2.5D & 3D ICs — Do We Have A Liftoff?

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All the work that’s been done on stacked die really could pay off soon.
 
The challenges of Moore’s law scaling at advanced technology nodes are well documented. I won’t repeat them here. The benefits of “more than Moore” scaling (i.e., 2.5D and 3D ICs) are also well-known. This technology

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A guide to IoT CPUs

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he Internet of Things is a fast-growing industry built on the promise of ubiquitous connectivity that will enable billions of devices to talk to each other and to people. The estimates for the number of IoT devices to ship by 2020 can vary widely, from the more conservative six billion figure presented

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SMIC Buys 70% of LFoundry for 49M Euros

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981), one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China, jointly announces with LFoundry Europe GmbH (“LFE”) and Marsica Innovation S.p.A. (“MI”), the signing of an agreement on June 24, 2016 to

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Increased Use of Semiconductors in the Automotive Will Boost the Semiconductor Equipment Market

According to the latest market research report by Technavio, the global semiconductor capital equipment marketis expected to reach USD 47.34 billion mark by 2020.
In this report, Technavio covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global semiconductor capital equipment market education market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the

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