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1. Florida Space Coast-Based IoT Design Startup, Croxel, Says It Can Fast-Track Even The Most Challenging Cellular IoT Designs Using Nordic-Based In-House Platform 3/12/2020

   To get IoT designs into demo, prototype and/or production at very high speed, Croxel has pre-developed its own feature-packed and fully customizable KIOTE/11 cellular IoT development engine

2. Advent Of 5G And AI Chip Manufacturing Renews The Need For Advanced Semiconductor Testing Systems 3/11/2020

   A confluence of macroeconomic and end-user trends, combined with cyclical fluctuations in the semiconductor industry, saw the global semiconductor automated testing equipment (ATE) market post a sharp decline in revenues in 2019

3. MACOM Extends Transimpedance Amplifier Portfolio Covering 100G To 800G Applications 3/10/2020

   MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions, today announced availability of two new transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) optimized for use in optical networking applications ranging from 100Gbps DR1 to 800Gbps DR8 and FR8

4. ON Semiconductor Introduces New 900 V And 1200 V SiC MOSFETs For Demanding Applications 3/10/2020

   ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficient innovations, has expanded their range of wide bandgap (WBG) devices with the introduction of two additional families of silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET

5. Scientists Shrink Fin-Width Of FinFET Into Sub 1 nm 3/10/2020

   FinFETs are known to be an evolution of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) featuring a semiconducting channel vertically wrapped by conformal gate electrodes

6. FormFactor Introduces Edge Coupling Probe Solution For Silicon Photonics Devices 3/10/2020

   FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ:FORM), a leading semiconductor test and measurement supplier, today announced revolutionary new features to enhance its industry-leading silicon photonics (SiPh) solution on its CM300xi probing system

7. SkyWater Chosen By Applied Novel Devices (AND) To Produce New High-Performance Si Power MOSFETs 3/10/2020

   SkyWater Technology, the innovator’s trusted foundry partner, and Applied Novel Devices Inc, a designer, developer and supplier of novel semiconductor device technologies (“AND”), today announced the companies have entered into a licensing and manufacturing agreement to offer an improved standard process flow for Si power MOSFETs (metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors)

8. Connected Lighting Platform From ON Semiconductor Supports Rapid Development Of Smart LED Lighting Solutions 3/9/2020

   ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficient innovations, has introduced the Connected Lighting Platform, leveraging the company's expertise in Power over Ethernet (PoE) and ultra-low-power Bluetooth® Low Energy connectivity, along with AC/DC and DC/DC power conversion design

9. Fraunhofer Brings Comprehensive MPEG Audio Codec Suite To NXP Semiconductors 3/2/2020

   Fraunhofer IIS, inventor of mp3 and primary developer of the xHE-AAC and MPEG-H Audio standards, announced today that NXP® Semiconductors will leverage Fraunhofer’s MPEG audio SDK

10. SK Siltron Completes Acquisition Of U.S. DuPont's SiC Wafer Division 3/1/2020

    SK Siltron, a global maker of semiconductor wafers, announced today it has completed the acquisition of DuPont's Silicon Carbide Wafer (SiC Wafer) unit