Avnet, Inc. today announced a distribution agreement with SiTime Corporation, a MEMS and analog semiconductor company and wholly owned subsidiary of MegaChips Corporation. Effective immediately, Avnet will offer SiTime’s MEMS oscillators in the Americas and Asia, excluding Japan...

MegaChips Corporation announced production shipments of the MCDP2900, an advanced audio-video converter, featuring unprecedented user experience features like HDR and HDCP2.2 repeater functions. The power-optimized converter facilitates secured transmission of 4K60Hz High Dynamic Range (HDR) content between personal, mobile, and consumer electronics through USB Type-C and other digital display interfaces...

With the government’s backing, key enterprises in China’s semiconductor sector have just established a “high-end chip alliance” that fosters the formation of a vertically integrated industry ecosystem on a national scale...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has started constructing a facility that will double the satellite-component production capacity of its Kamakura Works, Sagami Factory in Sagamihara, Japan. The factory is Mitsubishi Electric’s core production and testing site for solar array panels, structural panels and other satellite components...

IC Insights forecasts that semiconductor industry capital spending will increase by only 3% this year after declining by 2% in 2015. However, driven by the top three spenders—Samsung, TSMC, and Intel—capital spending in 2016 is expected to be heavily skewed toward the second half of this year...

Silicon Labs has introduced the industry’s first high-speed, multi-channel digital isolators designed to meet the demands of programmable logic controller (PLC) applications. The new Si838x PLC field input isolator family offers an unmatched combination of high-speed channels (up to 2 Mbps), exceptional channel integration (up to eight channels per device), bipolar input flexibility, high noise immunity and 2...

HSINCHU, Taiwan – TSMC announced yesterday that the company will increase its capital investments of approximately US$3,790.4 million to expand advanced technology capacity and 2016 Q4 R&D capital expenditures. TSMC yesterday held a meeting of the Board of Directors, which approved capital appropriations of approximately US$3,790...