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| Singapore's UnaBiz won over nine bidders to acquire Sigfox |
4/29/2022 |
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The Commercial Court of Toulouse has appointed UnaBiz, massive IoT service provider and Sigfox Operator for Singapore and Taiwan, as the new owner of Sigfox. The results of the receivership proceeding for Sigfox and its subsidiary Sigfox France SAS were unanimous,
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| Taiwan dominates global foundry market |
4/27/2022 |
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Taiwan dominates the world's semiconductor manufacturing industry – controlling 48 per cent of the foundry market and 61 per cent of the world's capacity to build at 16nm or better - according to market intelligence firm TrendForce.
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| When will chip shortage be over? |
4/27/2022 |
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Despite chip manufacturers responding by increasing their production capacity, the shortage will persist well into 2023 as lead times for some components continue to extend.
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| DENSO Corp. and UMC Japan to collaborate on the production of power semiconductors for EV |
4/27/2022 |
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An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) line will be installed at USJC’s wafer fab, which will be the first in Japan to produce IGBTs on 300mm wafers. DENSO will contribute its system-oriented IGBT device and process technologies while USJC will provide its 300mm wafer manufacturing capabilities to bring the 300mm IGBT process into mass production,
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| South Korean semiconductor firms' standing in the Chinese market has become weaker |
4/26/2022 |
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The Federation of Korean Industries(FKI) released the conclusion on Monday after analyzing market share data of relevant firms from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the U.S. and the six member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations following Washington's sanctions on Huawei and the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation(SMIC).
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| The advantages of DDR5 |
4/26/2022 |
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The memory bandwidth of DDR5 is twice that of DDR4. If the transfer rate is calculated at the initial 4800Mhz, it is 50% higher than the 3200Mhz of DDR4. In addition to significant improvements in performance, DDR5 memory has also made good progress in capacity, stability and power-saving efficiency.
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| Autonomous driving to bring changes to road systems |
4/26/2022 |
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The technology needed to enable autonomous driving goes beyond just the vehicles: The roads they operate on can also benefit from technological advancements to become safer and easier to use for such vehicles. This is an area that’s gaining increased prominence, though not from all stakeholders.
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| Esperanto experiments with massively parallel RISC-V AI |
4/25/2022 |
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Esperanto’s evaluation program enables users to obtain performance data from running a variety of off-the-shelf AI models including recommendation, transformer and visual networks on the ET-SoC-1 AI Inference Accelerator.
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| On Semiconductor shuts down Shanghai global distribution center |
4/25/2022 |
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On Semiconductor (Onsemi) has notified customers in a letter that the company has to shut down its Global Distribution Center in China, while closely managing supply-chain disruptions caused by COVID lockdowns and restrictions in Shanghai and other major Chinese cities,
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| US House members protested about the sale of Newport Wafer Fab to the Chinese company Wingtech |
4/25/2022 |
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“The UK is a valued ally of the United States, and we hope it will decide to change course,” the congressmen wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden, “it is in the long-term interest of our two countries to ensure the People’s Republic of China is not able to gain control of any segment of critical supply chains such as semiconductors, particularly when they are located on allied soil.
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| Synopsys offers most advance Neural Processor IP |
4/25/2022 |
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To accelerate application software development for the ARC NPX6 NPU IP, the new DesignWare ARC MetaWare MX Development Toolkit provides a comprehensive compilation environment with automatic neural network algorithm partitioning to maximize resource utilization.
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