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M31 and Corigine Launch the World's First 28nm USB-IF Certified Superspeed+ USB 3.1 Gen 2 IP
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Published: Oct 19,2017
China Semiconductor Fab Equipment Spending Forecasted to Over Than $12 Billion
SEMI today announced its new China IC Industry Outlook Report. With an increasing presence in the global semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, the market opportunities in China are expanding dramatically. China is the largest consumer of semiconductors in the world, but it currently relies mainly on semiconductor imports to drive its growth...
Intel and Mobileye Offer Formula to Prove Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Mobileye and Intel today announced a formal, mathematical formula to ensure that a self-driving vehicle operates in a responsible manner and does not cause accidents. Speaking today at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, professor Amnon Shashua, Mobileye CEO and Intel senior vice president, offered the autonomous driving industry a way to prove the safety of autonomous vehicles...
Power Integrations Opens New Production-Support and R&D Center in Malaysia
Power Integrations announced the opening of a new location in Penang, Malaysia. The facility will serve as a production-support and R&D center as well as an operations hub from which the company will manage its Asian supply chain...
Samsung Completes Qualification of 8nm LPP Process
Samsung Electronics announced today that 8-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, 8LPP (Low Power Plus), has been qualified and is ready for production. The newest process node, 8LPP provides up to 10-percent lower power consumption with up to 10-percent area reduction from 10LPP through narrower metal pitch...
Merger of Gintech, NSP and Solartech Will Contribute to Taiwan’s Solar Industry, Says TrendForce
Three solar companies Gintech, Neo Solar Power (NSP) and Solartech signed an MOU on October 16 announcing their intention to merge as one single corporate entity by the third quarter of 2018. According to EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, the combined production capacity for photovoltaic (PV) cells of these three companies is projected to reach 5 gigawatts (GW)...
Worldwide Device Shipments to Increase 2.0% in 2018, Gartner Says
Worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones are predicted to exceed 2.35 billion units in 2018, an increase of 2.0 percent from 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. This would be the highest year-over-year growth since 2015...