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Presto Engineering Acquires DELTA Microelectronics Business from FORCE Technology

Meyreuil, France and Hørsholm, Denmark – February 5, 2020—Presto Engineering, an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, announced today that it has acquired the DELTA Microelectronics business unit of FORCE Technology, the European leader in ASIC supply chain services.
With this acquisition, Presto adds

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Semiconductor R&D To Nudge Higher Through 2024

The semiconductor business is defined by rapid technological changes and the need to maintain high levels of investment in research and development for new materials, innovative manufacturing processes for increasingly complex chip designs, and advanced IC packaging technologies.
While consolidation in the semiconductor industry contributed to lower growth rates in

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Brief History

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, abbreviated as GF, is a semiconductor foundry based in Santa Clara, California in the United States. GLOBALFOUNDRIES, is responsible for the mass manufacturing of integrated circuits for popular and successful semiconductor companies including but not limited to the likes of Qualcomm, NXP and STMicroelectronics.
 
The Formation Of GLOBALFOUNDRIES
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CMC Offers Researchers Access to GLOBALFOUNDRIES Advanced Semiconductor Technologies

January 21, 2020: CMC Microsystems has signed an agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world’s leading specialty foundry, that will provide access to GF’s advanced and specialized FinFET, RF SOI, FDX, SiGe, and Silicon Photonics platforms for CMC researchers at more than 60 Canadian universities and colleges, in addition to

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26 of 33 Semiconductor IC Products Forecast to Demonstrate Positive Growth in 2020

IC Insights recently released the 2020 edition of The McClean Report.  The new analysis and forecast of the IC industry includes IC Insights’ 2020 ranking of sales growth rates for each of the 33 IC product categories defined by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.  The top-10 fastest growing

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IC’Alps receives EN 9100:2018 certification for aerospace, aviation and defence markets

Meylan, FRANCE – January 23, 2020 – IC’Alps, French expert in design and supply of custom integrated circuits, announces EN 9100:2018 certification and strengthens its commitment to aerospace, aviation and defence markets.
 
EN 9100 is the internationally recognized Quality Management System (QMS) specifically developed for the aerospace, aviation and

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Omni Design Joins TSMC IP Alliance Program

MILPITAS, Calif.–Omni Design Technologies, a leading provider of high-performance, low-power mixed-signal Intellectual Property (IP) solutions, today announced it has joined the TSMC IP Alliance Program, a key component of TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP), which includes major and leading IP companies, providing the semiconductor industry’s largest catalog of silicon-verified, production-proven and

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eMemory and UMC Qualify NeoFuse IP on the Foundry’s 28nm High Voltage Process

Hsinchu, Taiwan (January 20, 2020) –eMemory, the leading provider of non-volatile memory intellectual property, and United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) (“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that eMemory’s NeoFuse IP has been qualified on UMC’s 28nm High Voltage (HV) platform to target the fast-growing OLED market.
 
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Imagination Technologies expands with new design centre in Romania

London, England and Timisoara, Romania; 16th January 2020 – Imagination Technologies has opened a new design centre in Timisoara, Romania. The centre will focus on IP designed for artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision. The team will initially focus on software and test activities, expanding in the future to areas such as system architecture

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Global GDP Growth An Increasingly Important Driver of IC Market Growth

IC Insights is in the process of completing its forecast and analysis of the IC industry and will present its new findings in The McClean Report 2020, which will be published later this month.  Among the semiconductor industry data included in the new 400-page report is an analysis of the correlation

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