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SECURE-IC ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF ITS PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CLOUD

Rennes (France), December 18th, 2020 – Secure-IC, the rising leader and the only global provider of end- to-end cybersecurity solutions for embedded systems and connected objects, announces today the availability of its protection technologies (“Silicon Intellectual Property” – IPs) in the Cloud.
 
Starting first with Xilinx App Store launched

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What To Expect From the IC Industry in 2021

The year 2020 was a most unusual and challenging year for businesses and consumers.  With the promise of a new year looming, it is worthwhile to step back, take a fresh look at the IC industry, and assess where it stands today and what can be expected in 2021 (Figure

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Sofics and Hardent join Mixel’s MIPI® ecosystem to provide designers a complete MIPI solution

San Jose, CA – (December 15, 2020) –Mixel (www.mixel.com), a leading provider of mixed-signal IPs, today announced new partnerships with Sofics bvba (www.sofics.com), a leading provider of analog I/Os, specialty digital I/Os and ESD protection, and Hardent (www.hardent.com), a leading provider of video compression IP cores. Sofics and Hardent are

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Foundry Capex to Account for 34% of Total Semi Capex in 2020

IC Insights is updating its comprehensive forecasts and analyses of the IC industry for its 24th edition of The McClean Report, which will be released in January 2021.  Included in the report is a historical review of capital spending and forecast spending rates for leading IC product categories.
 
Following spending

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Secure-IC announces U.S. subsidiary opening

Rennes (France), December 1st, 2020 – Secure-IC, the rising leader and the only global provider of end-to-end cybersecurity solutions for embedded systems and connected objects, announces today the launch of its first subsidiary in the U.S., Secure-IC Inc., with the main goal of growing business in the area.
 
Secure-IC’s

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2020 Top 15 Semiconductor Sales Leaders Including Foundries

IC Insights’ November Update to the 2020 McClean Report, released later this month, includes a discussion of the forecasted top-25 semiconductor suppliers in 2020. This research bulletin covers the expected top-15 2020 semiconductor suppliers (Figure 1).
The November Update also includes a detailed five-year forecast through 2024 of the IC market by product type (including

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Wafer Capacity by Feature Size Shows Strongest Growth at <10nm

IC capacity for leading-edge (<10nm) processes is expected to grow and become the largest portion of monthly installed capacity across the industry beginning in 2024, based on information in IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report.  At the end of 2020, <10nm capacity is expected to account for 10% of the

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CEO interview: Graham Curren of Sondrel

It has been my pleasure to interview Graham Curren, CEO of Sondrel. A veteran of the Electronics Design industry, he founded Sondrel in 2002 to provide digital ASIC designs.
 

 
How did you aim to differentiate Sondrel when you started?
My view of the market was that there

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Synopsys Acquires In-chip Monitoring Solutions Leader Moortec

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 11, 2020 — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced that it has acquired Moortec, a leading provider of in-chip monitoring technology specializing in process, voltage and temperature (PVT) sensors. The Moortec sensors provide a key component to Synopsys’ new Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) platform. Data from

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Unit-Level Traceability for Automotive Customers

Automotive product traceability has existed in one form or another for several decades. Traceability generally refers to tracking and tracing each component that comprises every sub-system in a car. Traditionally, this has been achieved with direct part marking on mechanical or electronic components, using 1D or 2D barcodes or radio-frequency

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