PC Shipments Declined 2% in 4Q17 and 2.8% for the Year, Gartner Says
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, a 2 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2016, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. For the year, 2017 PC shipments surpassed 262...
Toyoda Gosei Develops Large Plastic Roof Panels for Use on Fuel Cell Bus
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed large plastic roof panels that will be used on a fuel cell bus to be launched by Toyota Motor Corporation in 2018. More than 100 of these buses will be put into use in the Tokyo metropolitan region as it readies for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics...
Vishay Intertechnology HI-TMP Wet Tantalum Capacitors Offer Increased Reliability for Industrial and
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced a new series of HI-TMP tantalum-cased, hermetically sealed wet tantalum capacitors with high temperature operation to +200 °C. Offering increased reliability for industrial and oil exploration applications, T34 series axial-leaded through-hole devices deliver increased mechanical shock and vibration withstand ability, along with longer life...
UMC Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Micron
HSINCHU, Taiwan - United Microelectronics Corporation announced that the company has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Micron Semiconductor (Xi'an) Co., Ltd. and Micron Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
Foundries Have Decreased the Input for LCD Driver IC in 1Q18, Says TrendForce
The expanding markets for Internet of Things, automotive electronics, and smart home devices have driven the demand for power management integrated circuit (PMIC) and microcontrollers (MCU), etc., resulting in the 200mm foundries’ less input in LCD driver ICs...
Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Forecast to Grow 7.5% in 2018, Gartner Says
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $451 billion in 2018, an increase of 7.5 percent from $419 billion in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. This represents a near doubling of Gartner's previous estimate of 4 percent growth for 2018...