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Value of Semiconductor Mergers and Acquisitions Falls Considerably

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 2019, which will be published later this month.  Among the semiconductor industry data included in the new 400+ page report is an analysis of semiconductor

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HDL Design House Webinar: Reducing Integration and Verification Effort in SoC Design

Belgrade, Serbia – January 15th, 2019 – HDL Design House, provider of digital, analog, and back-end design and verification services and products in numerous areas of SoC, will host a webinar with Arm on SoC design and verification best practices for accelerated time-to-market on January, 29th, 2019. The webinar will

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Semiconductor Leaders’ Marketshares Surge Over the Past 10 Years

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 2019, which will be published later this month.  Among the semiconductor industry data included in the new 400+ page report is an analysis of the

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An Introduction to BGA Package

With the levels of integration rising to unprecedented levels and the requirement of integrated circuits with a high number gate and pins increased day by day, there was a need to manufacture a package that would be convenient to use, would be will reliable and robust, would pose higher pin

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Faraday Unveils ASIC Success in Factory Automation

Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today announced that it has won and delivered several factory automation (FA) related ASIC projects, supporting real-time Ethernet, EtherCAT, Profibus, and PLC controllers. In each case, Faraday employs its value-added ASIC and IP customization service for power-performance

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VeriSilicon’s Artificial Intelligence Processor IP Used in Next-Generation Large Screen Smart Home System-on-Chip (SoC)

VeriSilicon today announced that industry leader Broadcom Inc. has selected its Vivante VIP8000/VIPNano family of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Processor IP for use in their next generation Set-top Box system-on-chip (SoC). With full scalability from extremely low power sub TOPS to high performance exceeding 100 TOPS, Vivante VIP8000/VIPNano IP has been

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Pure-Play Semiconductor Market by Region 2017-2018

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 2019, which will be published later this month.  Among the semiconductor industry data included in the new 400+ page report is an in-depth analysis of

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Global Wafer Capacity 2019-2023

With the IC market on pace to surpass the $400 billion mark in 2018 after exceeding $300 billion just one year earlier, it is not surprising that fab capacity levels are on the rise too.  A surge in new fab construction and existing fab upgrades is underway, but will it

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What are spare cells and why the heck do we need them?

Spare cells are basically elements embedded in the design which are not driving anything. The idea is that maybe they will enable an easy (metal) fix without the need of a full redesign.
 
Sometimes not everything works after tape-out, a counter might not be reseted correctly, a control signal

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What is a Fabless Company

Imagine that you and your friends are ASIC engineers and you come up with a revolutionary idea for a semiconductor chip which could potentially change our life. You finally agree to start a company and start the ASIC development. But how will you manufacture the silicon wafers? do you need

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