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76% of IC Products Expected to See Flat/Negative Growth in 2019

IC Insights recently released its Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2019.  The update included IC Insights’ 2019 ranking of revenue growth rates for the 33 IC product categories defined by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
 
Figure 1 shows the distribution of growth rates for the 33 IC product categories

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VeriSilicon Launches VIP9000, New Generation of Neural Processor Unit IP

Shanghai, China, August 7, 2019 – VeriSilicon, a Silicon-Platform-as-a-Service (SiPaaS®) company, today announces VIP9000, a highly scalable and programmable processor for computer vision and artificial intelligence. The Vivante VIP family’s patented Neural Network (NN) engine and Tensor Processing Fabric technology delivers superb neural network inference performance with industry-leading power efficiency (TOPS/W)

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Faraday Leads Industry with 28G Programmable SerDes at 28nm for Networking ASIC

Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced the availability of its 28Gbps programmable SerDes PHY IP on UMC 28HPC process technology. Faraday leads the ASIC industry by successfully delivering this silicon-proven IP solution, enabling the infrastructure of 100G Ethernet and most xPON

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Largest IC Product Categories Revenue – 2019F

IC Insights recently released its Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2019.  The update included IC Insights’ ranking of the 33 largest IC product categories based on their expected sales and unit shipment volumes for 2019. The 33 IC product categories are those defined by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization. 

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SCALINX Opens New ASIC Design Center in SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France

To support its fast growth, SCALINX opened this month, in addition to its ASIC design centers in Paris and Caen, the third one in Sophia-Antipolis, France, offering services for custom designed Integrated Circuits.
 
“We are very excited to be opening our third ASIC design center, which has a highly

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Rambus to Acquire Northwest Logic, Extending Leadership in Interface IP

Rambus Inc. (RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Northwest Logic, a market leader in memory, PCIe and MIPI digital controllers. Northwest Logic’s high-performance, high-quality and silicon-proven digital IP controller cores are optimized for

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Semi Content in Electronic Systems Forecast to Drop to 26.4% in 2019

In its upcoming Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2019 (to be released at the end of July), IC Insights forecasts that the 2019 global electronic systems market will grow 4% to $1,680 billion. In contrast, the worldwide semiconductor market is expected to drop by 12% this year to $443.8 billion after exceeding

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What is a System on Chip (SoC)?

CPU chip installed on a computer motherboard

A system on a chip, also known as an SoC, is essentially an integrated circuit or an IC that takes a single platform and integrates an entire electronic or computer system onto it. It is, exactly as its name suggests, an entire system on a single chip. The components that

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Omni Design Technologies opens design center in Bangalore, India

U.S.-based Omni Design Technologies, a developer of high-performance ultra-low-power analog and mixed-signal IP cores continues its rapid expansion of core R&D capability with the inauguration of ODT India Center of Excellence, Pvt Ltd, in Bangalore, India. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Omni Design Technologies Inc., ODT India will supplement the advanced

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What is a Probe Card?

A probe card is essentially an interface or a board that is used to perform wafer test for a semiconductor wafer. It is used to connect to the integrated circuits located on a wafer to the ATE (Automated Test Equipment) in order to test their electrical parameters and performance before

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