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Fabless Company Sales By Region 2018

IC Insights published its updated 2019-2023 semiconductor market forecasts and top-40 IDM and top-50 fabless IC company sales rankings in its recently released March Update, the first monthly Update to the 500-page, 2019 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry.
 
Figure 1 depicts the 2018 fabless

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proteanTecs Completes Successful Series B Funding and Launches Out of Stealth Mode

proteanTecs, a start-up company that invented a groundbreaking solution for the prediction of failures in electronics, announced today that it has completed a series B financing round of $35 million. Investors include Avigdor Willenz, Intel Capital, ITI Venture Capital Partners, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Redline Capital Management S.A., Viola Ventures, WRVI

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Short Guide to Selecting IC Package

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Semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) are an essential component of every other modern technology which is why they have undergone some of the most extensive growth. Today, IC packaging offering is wide and deep with many kinds and types of semiconductor packaging technologies.  Your goal is, therefore, to select an IC

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Sankalp Semiconductor Expands International Operations in Japan

Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced that it has appointed industry veteran Hisaya Keida in the key position as the Head of Japan. In this capacity, Hisaya Keida will manage sales operations and enable Sankalp’s presence in the

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SCALINX expansion continues with ASIC design center in Caen, France

SCALINX, industry recognized expert in new art of signal conversion technology, embedded in ASIC designs, has continued with its expansion plans and growth of its engineering staff in Caen design facility, which was opened in July 2018.
 
“The growth of the engineering staff in our design center Caen will

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SoC Clock Domain Crossing – An Important Problem

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Sometimes, when crossing clock domains, synchronizers are just not enough.
 
Imagine sending data serially over a single line and receiving it on the other side from the output of a common synchronizer as shown bellow.
 

Assuming one clock cycle is enough to recover from metastability under the

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Moortec Subsystem Overview Whiteboard [Video]

In the second of a series of new whiteboard videos, Moortec CEO Stephen Crosher explains the benefits of using Moortec’s highly accurate, highly featured modular PVT monitoring subsystem for advanced node designs in terms of increasing device reliability and optimising performance.
 
 

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Number of 300mm Semiconductor Fabs Expected to Reach 121 in 2019

IC Insights recently released its Global Wafer Capacity 2019-2023 report that provides in-depth analyses and forecasts of IC industry capacity by wafer size, by process geometry, by region, and by product type through 2023. The newest edition of the Global Wafer Capacity report shows that 300mm wafers took over as the industry’s primary wafer

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GOWIN Semiconductor Corporation Appoints Pan-European Representative

GOWIN Semiconductor Corporation, the world’s fastest growing programmable logic company, today announces the appointment of GoRep Limited as its representative in Europe. This appointment represents further expansion in the territory following other recent distribution announcements as well as the opening of a European sales office and appointment of a Director

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Mobile Semiconductor Licenses memory compilers to Sandia National Laboratories

Mobile Semiconductor announced today that they are licensing their 180nm Memory Compilers to Sandia National Laboratories.
 
Cameron Fisher, Founder and CEO of Mobile Semiconductor said, “We are proud to announce that we are licensing our 180nm Single Port SRAM and 180nm Dual Port SRAM memory compilers to Sandia National

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