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| Automotive LED market expected to grow 4% |
7/12/2022 |
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Gains made in the penetration rate of LED headlights coupled with the development of advanced technologies such as intelligent headlights, logo lamps, and intelligent ambient lights will sustain a backstop for market demand in automotive lighting in 2022.
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| Global semiconductor industry sales up 18% by year |
7/11/2022 |
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Monthly sales are compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization and represent a three-month moving average. SIA represents 99% of the U.S. semiconductor industry by revenue and nearly two-thirds of non-U.S. chip firms.
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| Microchip Inductive Position Sensors Designed for EV Motor Control Applications |
7/8/2022 |
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Developers of motor control systems are rapidly replacing Hall Effect position sensors and older magnetic resolver solutions with inductive alternatives that eliminate expensive magnets and other heavy transformer-based structures so they can be integrated onto simple, compact printed circuit boards (PCBs).
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| Weebit Nano shows its ReRAM technology IP |
7/8/2022 |
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The Israeli company was on hand at the recent Leti Innovation Days to highlight its ReRAM IP module’s real–world capability as a non–volatile memory (NVM) integrated into an actual subsystem. The demonstration comes less than a year after taping out the module and is a notable milestone toward productization of its ReRAM technology.
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| DRAM prices to decline as much as 10% |
7/7/2022 |
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Facing uncertain peak-season demand in 2H22, some DRAM suppliers have begun effectively expressing clear intentions to cut prices, especially in the server field, where demand is relatively stable, in order to reduce inventory pressure.
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| Microchip puts into production First RISC-V-Based SoC FPGA |
7/7/2022 |
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Microchip Technology Inc. announces the production qualification for the MPFS250T and the previously announced MPFS025T. Microchip’s Mi-V ecosystem has also continued to streamline RISC-V adoption while enabling a new class of smaller, more power-efficient and less-costly industrial, IoT and other edge-compute products.
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| CO2 Batteries to replace lithium |
7/7/2022 |
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Energy Dome, a startup founded in 2019 and headquartered in Milan, Italy, has developed a novel technology which aims to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, thus helping to solve the environmental issue. This new technology, named CO2 Battery, is actually a long–duration energy storage which allows renewable energy production to be more affordable and dispatchable.
Energy Dome’s CO2 battery
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| Chroma ATE to Invest in EV Maker Gaius Automotive |
7/6/2022 |
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Chroma will supply electric control units (ECUs) to Gaius as one of the key components for electric three-wheeled delivery vehicles. The tie-up will offer strong support to the development of Taiwan’s electric vehicle (EV) industry.
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| Material shortage hinders semiconductor equipment shipments |
7/5/2022 |
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Current observations indicate that this delay of semiconductor equipment has a relatively marginal impact on expansion plans in 2022 with the bulk of repercussions arriving in 2023, affecting TSMC, UMC, PSMC, Vanguard, SMIC, and GlobalFoundries,
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| Maturity of 5G to Spur Growth in the Drone Market |
7/5/2022 |
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ABI Research predicts total worldwide shipments of sUAS ecosystems to reach 3 million by 2025, increasing at a 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). COVID-19 has driven the need for more human-drone collaboration. At the same time, the maturity of drone hardware and complementary technology such as 5G allows more countries to relax their drone regulations.
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| NAND flash prices to drop over Q322 |
7/5/2022 |
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capacity is sufficient to meet increased bit demand amid growing output month by month from Kioxia and WDC, according to TrendForce research. However, post-pandemic demand for consumer electronics such as laptops will no longer lead to flagging orders.
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| P-DUKE offers 12W DC-DC convertor |
7/5/2022 |
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Wthi thermal dissipating via its metal casing and high conversion efficiency of up to 90%, operation from -40 to +70°C ambient temperatures without derating is possible.
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| Intel ships its cryptocurrency-mining ASIC |
7/4/2022 |
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Head of Intel's Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics group, tweeted Wednesday the company has started initial shipments of the Blockscale ASIC to crypto-mining firms Argo Blockchain, Hive Blockchain and Griid:
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