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Major Pure-Play Foundries Revenue Per Wafer 2017-2018

The average revenue generated from processed wafers among the four biggest pure-play foundries (TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC) is expected to be $1,138 in 2018, when expressed in 200mm-equivalent wafers, which is essentially flat from $1,136 in 2017, according to a new analysis by IC Insights (Figure 1).  The average

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Sankalp Semiconductor Opens Second Design Centre in Bangalore

Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced opening of its second new design centre in Bangalore. The company already has four design centres in India (Hubli, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Bangalore). Sankalp’s second design center is located in the Global

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JCET Group Appoints Distinguished Semiconductor Industry Executive Dr. Lee Choon Heung as CEO

STATS ChipPAC Pte. Ltd. (“STATS ChipPAC” or the “Company”), a leading provider of advanced semiconductor packaging and test services, announced Friday that the Board of Directors of its holding company, Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology Co., Ltd (‘JCET’) has appointed Dr. Lee Choon Heung as Chief Executive Officer (‘CEO’) for JCET

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What is an ASIC and how is it made?

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ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit — or in other words a chip that is being designed for a specific task.
 

 
 
Those Integrated Circuits (IC) are usually a combination of Analog circuit such as clock, amplifier and denoising circuit and Digital Block such as multiplexers, registers, arithmetic logic

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Silicon Creations Highlights PLL Developments in 22nm, 12nm, 7nm, and 5nm at TSMC OIP™ Ecosystem Forum

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced a wide variety of IP offerings in TSMC’s 5FF, 7FF, 7FF+, 12FFC, and 22ULP/ULL process nodes, designed to support customer’s SoC timing demands.
 

Silicon Creations will showcase its technologies in these and other nodes

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What is an ASIC Design Services Company and How to Choose one?

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If you are reading this article it’s probably because you’ve came to realize that an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) might give your company or your product a massive edge in the market. There are many reasons to use an ASIC in your product: It can minimize your product size

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T2M announces its first Image Signal Processing (ISP) Technology for advanced mobile camera applications

T2M, the world’s largest independent global semiconductor IP provider, announced the launch of its first low-power digital image processor IP designed to perform advanced image correction and enhancement, resulting in superior image quality in today’s multi-megapixel cameras. Its’ built-in high-level features include face tracking, video stabilization and a smooth digital

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When And Why Should You Choose An ASIC?

An ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit and is often assumed to be exorbitantly expensive to design and manufacture one. The reasons behind such a conjecture is are not entirely unfounded, given the fact that mask-set for the state-of-art semiconductor technology like 5nm costs around $10-15 million! This puts

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Pure-Play Semiconductor Foundry Market Growth By Region 2017-2018

IC Insights’ September Update to The McClean Report shows that as a result of a 51% forecasted increase in the China pure-play foundry market this year (Figure 1), China’s total share of the 2018 pure-play foundry market is expected to jump by five percentage points to 19%, exceeding the share held by the rest

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Sankalp Semiconductor to Exhibit at Taiwan Innotech Expo 2018

Bangalore, India –26th September, 2018 – Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, will be exhibiting at Taiwan Innotech Expo from 27-29th September in Taipei, Taiwan. Sankalp Semiconductor offers services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital,

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