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Last update: Feb-2021
This article is an attempt to gather all the Israeli Semiconductor Companies into a single document. Israel’s semiconductor industry consists mainly of three types of companies – multinational IC design companies, fabless companies, and ASIC design services companies.
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IC Insights is currently updating its 2019-2023 semiconductor market forecasts that will be presented later this month in the 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 (released in January 2019).
For 2019, a steep 24% drop in
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced early availability of the complete, silicon-proven Cadence® Denali® Gen2 IP for LPDDR5/4/4X in TSMC’s 7nm FinFET process technology. Offering up to 1.5X faster bandwidth than the fastest speed of LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X, the LPDDR5 standard enables high bandwidth with low power consumption, making it
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The IC industry has been on a mission to pare down older capacity (i.e., ≤200mm wafers) in order to produce devices more cost-effectively on larger wafers. In its recently released Global Wafer Capacity 2019-2023 report, IC Insights shows that due to the surge of merger and acquisition activity in the
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The advancement of the semiconductor industry hinges on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. As mainstream CMOS processes reach their theoretical, practical, and economic limits, lowering the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per-performance basis) is more critical and challenging
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Graphcore (www.graphcore.ai), the technology company that has developed a completely new type of processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), which lets artificial intelligence (AI) innovators create next generation AI applications, selected TakeCharge® technology from Sofics bvba of Belgium to protect its Colossus GC2 IPU from electrostatic discharge (ESD). Sofics is
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CoreHW RABBIT (Rotating Antenna for Bluetooth Beacon and Internet of Things) solution is designed for Bluetooth 5.1, which has an unprecedented direction-finding feature. The new technology makes it possible for Bluetooth devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal transmission and enables centimeter-level positioning accuracy.
CoreHW RABBIT is
This interview was held with Mr. Oliver Maiwald, CEO of Sencio B.V.
Tell me a bit about your background? How did you first get started with Sencio?
I have had a fairly circuitous route to the role of CEO. My first step was as an electrical technician working on the
IC Insights recently released its new Global Wafer Capacity 2019-2023 report that provides in-depth detail, analyses, and forecasts for IC industry capacity by wafer size, process geometry, region, and product type through 2023. Figure 1 shows the world’s installed monthly wafer production capacity by geographic region (or country) as of December
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Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced that its phase-locked loop (PLL) technology has been deployed in Canaan Creative’s 7nm mining chip.
Canaan, the leader in offering blockchain hardware and software solutions and designing ASIC chips announced in August 2018 that they