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With the increased demand for improved functionality and miniaturization in portable hand-held devices—such as cell phones, PDA, digital cameras and laptop computers—original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and integrated device manufactures (IDMs) have joined forces to ensure enhanced chip performance without sacrificing valuable board real estate. Rather than use conventional single chip
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has dropped its prices on 28nm and 20nm process technologies by 5-10% in hopes to secure additional orders from major companies which includes Qualcomm and MediaTek, according to DigiTimes. However, the reaction of 28nm prices will most likely affect AMD and Nvidia positively, who are
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The Semiconductor IP marketplace is a two digit rate growing market which should continue its increase next years according to Gartner Dataquest and according to a new market research report by Form Factor.
Semiconductor IP is expected to reach $5.63 billion in 2020 at a CAGR of 12.6% from
Multi Project Wafer (MPW) emerged in the 1970’s to help companies and researchers prototype their silicon and demonstrate their work. It was the early days of the semiconductor industry when firms like Fairchild, IBM and others were applying technology innovation to create smaller, faster and cheaper chips. Back then, Multi-Project
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There are many methods employed in food preparations right from the Stone Age up till date, these methods have been increasingly evolving and getting better with time.
Food preparations started from burying food in the ground for the heat to cook it up, this goes on till the invention
AnySilicon the leading semiconductor marketplace launched today an IP portal linking IP core vendors and companies in search of IP cores. AnySilicon IP marketplace is covering analog, digital, mixed signal and verification IP cores together with more critical IPs provided by leading IP vendors. AnySilicon site allows companies to easily
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The world’s largest contract chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), is being expected to secure more than half of all of Apple’s new mobile chip in 2016. This is due to their better production roadmap planning. They’re expecting that since the Taiwanese manufacturer has a clear roadmap for their
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The tech world was buzzing during last October when IBM agreed to pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take over their semiconductor manufacturing facilities in East Fishkill and Vermont. The deal is now expected to close as of July 1st.
The closing of the deal will put to end months
Integrated circuit (IC) designers are learning that a technique long used on older process nodes is providing even more valuable benefits as they develop devices to be manufactured at advanced technology nodes, including 28nm and beyond. During a period when it takes $10 million or more to bring a device
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The war between TSMC and Samsung is heating up and it’s expected to last well throughout the decade. The war only got hotter when TSMC announced that they will begin producing 7nm processors in 2017. Xilinx will be their very first customer.
Xilinx Inc. made the announcement late yesterday that