HiSilicon First China-Based Semi Supplier to be Ranked in Top-10
The top-10 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O S D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1Q20. It includes six suppliers headquartered in the U.S., two in South Korea, and one each in Taiwan and China. The ranking includes four fabless companies (Broadcom, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and HiSilicon) and one pure-play foundry (TSMC)...
AUO to Demerge General Display and Public Information Display Business
HSINCHU, Taiwan – AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) announces that in order to advance the Company's value transformation strategy, AUO’s Board of Directors resolved yesterday to demerge AUO’s General Display and Public Information Display businesses to Da Qing Corporation (Da Qing), an entity wholly owned by AUO...
Virus Crisis Hits Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes
When 2020 began, global conditions pointed to single-digit percentage market growth this year for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (known collectively as O-S-D devices), but the outlook suddenly deteriorated in the first quarter due to the worldwide outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus...
Renesas Introduces JEDEC-Compliant Precision Temperature Sensor for DDR5 Memory Modules
Renesas Electronics announced a new precision temperature sensor, the TS5111, targeting DDR5 memory modules as well as a host of other applications such as solid-state disks (SSDs), computing motherboards, and communications equipment that require accurate, real-time temperature monitoring...
Faraday’s SoCreative!V Platform Accelerates SoC Development in Edge Applications
HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology announced its SoCreative!V SoC development platform based upon Faraday’s A500 SoC in UMC’s 28HPC process. The platform features an ARM Cortex-A53 Quad core with up to 1.4GHz clock rate; delivering an all-in-one solution with multiple...
Semiconductor Downturn to Continue Into 2020 Due to COVID-19 Impact
Ahead of the COVID-19 virus, worldwide semiconductor revenue declined 12.2% in 2019 to $418 billion, according to the latest update of the IDC Semiconductor Applications Forecaster (SAF). The global economy in 2019 grew at its slowest pace since the global financial crisis in 2008, and US-China trade disputes grounded semiconductor sentiment and demand...
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