Current Headlines

1. Power Management IC: Many Things Are About To Change
   12/11/2019

   “At first sight, we would think that the power management segment is well established, with US$18,5 billion market in 2019, a well-known technology and confirmed players” says Ana Villamor, PhD. Technology & Market Analyst, Power Electronics & Compound Semiconductors at Yole Développement (Yole)

2. New Lattice CrossLink-NX FPGAs Bring Power And Performance Leadership To Embedded Vision And Edge AI Applications
   12/10/2019

   Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, the low power programmable leader, today announced the first FPGA developed on its new Lattice Nexus FPGA platform, CrossLink-NX

3. MIRISE Technologies To Be Launched To Develop Semiconductors In Effort To Achieve Safe And Comfortable Future Global Mobility Society
   12/10/2019

   DENSO Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation today announced that they have named the joint venture to be established in April 2020 MIRISE Technologies (“MIRISE”)

4. Keysight, Marvin Test Solutions Collaborate To Speed Manufacturing Of mmWave Semiconductors
   12/5/2019

   Keysight Technologies, Inc., a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that its collaboration with Marvin Test Solutions, Inc. (MTS) – a supplier of functional test solutions – has resulted in the development of a fast and accurate 5G semiconductor manufacturing test platform.

5. Renesas Electronics Introduces Low-Power RL78 Prototyping Board To Simplify IoT Endpoint Equipment Prototyping
   12/5/2019

   Renesas Electronics Corporation , a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today launched the RL78/G14 Fast Prototyping Board – a low-cost, function-rich board to enable rapid product development for IoT endpoint equipment

6. Plessey Delivers Native Red InGaN LEDs On Silicon For World Leading microLED Displays
   12/5/2019

   Plessey, an embedded technologies developer at the forefront of microLED technology for the augmented reality (AR) and display markets, has successfully developed a world’s first GaN on Silicon-based Red LED

7. Breakthrough Made In Detecting Carbon Impurities In Gallium Nitride Crystals Via Light
   12/5/2019

   Carbon impurity has long hindered efficiency in nitride-based electronic and optical devices. But Researchers at Tohoku University, have discovered a method that can quickly detect carbon impurity using light

8. Controlling The Optical Properties Of Solids With Acoustic Waves
   11/30/2019

   Physicists from Switzerland, Germany, and France have found that large-amplitude acoustic waves, launched by ultrashort laser pulses, can dynamically manipulate the optical response of semiconductors.

9. WISeKey, ON Semiconductor And Tatwah Announce The Release Of The World's First Secure IoT Beacon Device
   11/26/2019

   WISeKey (WIHN.SIX), a Swiss based cyber security company, ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), a leading supplier of energy efficient semiconductor-based solutions, and Tatwah, a market leader in designing and manufacturing secure RFID tags and Bluetooth Low Energy beacons with a strong experience in security, announced today the release of the world’s first Secure IoT Beacon device

10. Smart Systems For Semiconductor Manufacturing
    11/25/2019

    Integrating smart systems into manufacturing offers the potential to transform many industries