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The historic Apollo 11 spacecraft, which placed the first human on the moon, was powered by a computer that weighed 70 pounds, had 64 kilobytes of memory, and a few tens of thousands of transistors. Compared to this, an average smartphone with a couple of gigabytes of RAM and the
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IC Insights recently released its September Update to the 2020 McClean Report that presented the second of a two-part analysis on the global IC foundry industry and included a look at the pure-play foundry market by region.
China was responsible for essentially all of the total pure-play foundry market increase in 2018. In
SAN MATEO, Calif.–OpenFive, the leading provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated IP, along with AnalogX, a provider of SerDes interface IP, today announced a complete sub-system solution and implementation for Chip-to-Chip (C2C) interface with ultra-low latency and power. This solution can be optimized for various bandwidth requirements of
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SAN JOSE, CA, October 6, 2020 — Movellus announced today that Everactive has adopted Movellus’ ultra-low power clocking solution for its batteryless Machine Health Monitoring (MHM) IoT product. Everactive’s core SoC is clocked by Movellus ultra low power PLL.
Everactive MHM’s core SoC is clocked by Movellus’ 700-nanowatt phase-locked loop
At the recent TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum and Technology virtual events, TSMC re-affirmed their previous prediction that 5G is going to be a multi-year silicon mega-trend with the biggest drivers being the ramp up of 5G handsets, supporting infrastructure and the continued growth of high performance computing (HPC).
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Sondrel is known for designing very large digital chips and the secret to lies in its ability to ensure that data flows around the chip between blocks correctly using a Network on Chip (NoC). Without a NoC, a chip could need up to ten times more memory to operate in
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Moortec, the go-to leaders of innovative in-chip monitoring solutions today announced that its complete in-chip sensing fabric has been selected by Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, in order to improve power consumption, performance and reliability for its compelling system-on-chip (SoC) for 5G small cell infrastructure.
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PHIX B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands, is a Dutch packaging foundry that assembles their customers’ photonic integrated circuits into complete modules. As these modules evolve from initial prototypes into mature products, the manufacturing volumes become much larger and a higher level of automation is required. This aspect of photonic device
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wo huge purchase agreements in July and September have guaranteed that 2020 will become at least the second-largest year in history for semiconductor merger and acquisition announcements, according to data released in the September Update to IC Insights’ 2020 McClean Report, (Figure 1). In the first nine months of 2020, the combined value
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If you have been following previous posts and events from Chipus, you have heard the concepts for our power management IP (PMIP) for hearables and wearables. If you are arriving now, welcome! We will show you a short summary.
In order to come up with a successful product in