
Smart Application Trends are Significant – Holtek Promotes 32-bit MCU Products
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Internet of Things (IoT) and smart trends continue to drive the growth of microcontroller (MCU) chips with both the vastness of applications and performance simultaneously experiencing rapid growth. MCU chip provider Holtek Semiconductor today at a yearly presentation for new products launched several types of 32-bit MCU products with applications that include wireless charging...

ST Cooperates with Alibaba Cloud to Provide Cloud-to-node IoT Solution to the Market
STMicroelectronics announced its cooperation with Alibaba Cloud to provide a complete cloud-to-node IoT solution to the market. The cooperation will allow any designer to easily create IoT nodes and gateways using ST's key semiconductor building blocks for the IoT, run Alibaba's IoT operating system AliOS on the node, and seamlessly connect with the Alibaba Cloud for faster time-to-market of large-volume IoT applications...

300mm Wafer Fabs Expected to Increase Each Year by 2021, IC Insights Says
With the prospects of large 450mm wafers going nowhere, IC manufacturers are increasing efforts to maximize fabrication plants using 300mm and 200mm diameter silicon substrates. The number of 300mm wafer production-class fabs in operation worldwide is expected to increase each year between now and 2021 to reach 123 compared to 98 in 2016, according to the forecast in IC Insights...

Acer Wins Eight 2017 Good Design Awards
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Acer announced today that eight of its products have been honored with a 2017 Good Design Award for outstanding product design. The award-winning Acer products include a 360-degree camera, 360-degree dash cam, indoor air quality monitor, all-in-one desktop PC, and four notebooks...

Spirent and China Mobile Partner to Run the 5G C-RAN Project
Spirent Communications announced today it has signed an agreement to partner with the China Mobile 5G Joint Innovation Center Project. As part of the first phase of the 5G C-RAN project, Spirent and the China Mobile 5G C-RAN Working Group successfully completed automated performance testing...

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Reach $411 Billion in 2017, Gartner Says
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $411.1 billion in 2017, an increase of 19.7 percent from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. This represents the strongest growth since the 2010 recovery from the financial crisis when revenue increased by 31...