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STMicro acquisition bolsters Gallium Nitride position
STMicroelectronics is acquiring a majority stake in French Gallium Nitride (GaN) innovator Exagan.
China Registers Pure-Play Foundry Market Growth in 2019
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 2020, 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 the IC foundry market and its suppliers.
Portfolio of advanced memory and SerDes PHYs on TSMC N7 process
Rambus has announced a broad portfolio of high-speed memory and SerDes PHYs for next-generation applications on TSMC’s industry-leading N7 process technology. Rambus offers GDDR6, HBM2 and 112G LR PHY IP available for licensing, these solutions enable demanding applications for data centre, networking, wireless 5G, HPC, ADAS, AI and ML.
Analogue mixed-signal tools for analog IC designs
Mentor has announced that its Tanner analog/mixed-signal (AMS) design tools – the Tanner S-Edit schematic capture tool and the Tanner L-Edit layout editor – are now certified for TSMC’s interoperable PDKs (iPDKs) for a broad range of TSMC specialty process technologies for high-volume analog IC designs.
Nanusens wins 'Best Campaign of the Year' at the 2019 Elektra Awards
After Nanusens’ success at the TechWorks Awards in October where it was the only company to win two awards, the company has gone on to win the Award for Best Campaign of the Year at the 2019 Elektra Awards, which are organised by Electronics Weekly.
Cadence corrals four partner awards from TSMC
Cadence Design Systems was presented with four TSMC Partner of the Year awards at the TSMC 2019 Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum. Cadence achieved recognition for the joint development of the N6 design infrastructure, SoIC design solution, cloud-based productivity solution and DSP IP.
Intel to reclaim number one semiconductor supplier ranking
IC Insights’ ‘November Update to the 2019 McClean Report’, released later this month, will include a discussion of the forecasted top-25 semiconductor suppliers in 2019 (the top-15 2019 semiconductor suppliers are covered in this research bulletin).
PragmatIC 2020 predictions
In August 2018, Global Foundries announced a radical restructuring in the wake of AMD’s decision to take its 7nm business to TSMC, further concentrating the industry into the “mega-fabs”. The top 5 now represent 90% of the foundry business . The primary driver for this continued concentration is the cost of building, ramping yield, and efficiently operating the latest fabs, and we can be certain that in 2020 spending by these be...
Semiconductor industry capex to set new record
IC Insights' November Update to The McClean Report 2019 will include a capital spending forecast for the major semiconductor companies for 2019 and 2020. In January of next year, IC Insights will release The McClean Report 2020 and present its seminars that review the five-year forecasts for the IC industry.
Cadence design tools get thumbs-up from TSMC
Digital and signoff full flow and custom/analogue tools from Cadence Design Systems have achieved certification on TSMC’s N6 and N5/N5P process technologies. The Cadence tools have attained the latest N6 and N5/N5P Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE certification, advancing next-generation mobile application development.