
Global Motherboard Shipment Decline to Slow Down in 2017, MIC Says
Global motherboard shipment volume is forecast to reach 107.7 million units in 2016, according to MIC (Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute), a Taipei-based research institute. "Although a majority of motherboard makers were struggling with their inventory levels in 2016...

iST and JFE-TEC Sign MOU for Building up Evaluation and Material Analysis in China
iST announced that they are going to cooperate with JFE Techno Research the company who specializes in high quality analysis, by signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). From this date, the two parties will be focusing on feasibility studies...

CETECOM Becomes a Member and Test Center of the LNI 4.0 Lab Network
CETECOM has been an official member and test center of the LNI 4.0 network since May 2017 and supports the German SME in the use and development of wireless technologies in the industrial environment. "As an accredited test laboratory with more than 20 years of experience in wireless telecommunication technologies, we can make a valuable contribution to the various fields of application of the Internet of Things...

Sales of IoT Semiconductors Rising About 16.2% to $21.3 Billion in 2017
IC Insights recently released its Update to its 2017 IC Market Drivers Report. In the Update, IC Insights scaled back its total semiconductor sales forecast for system functions related to the Internet of Things in 2020 by about $920 million, mostly because of lower revenue projections for connected cities applications (such as smart electric meters and infrastructure supported by government budgets)...

COPT Center Offers the Stage for Leybold’s Video Shooting for Its Newest Vacuum Product
As the COPT Center of the University of Cologne has been in cooperation with Leybold for some time, they were the first place to turn to for a shooting a product video in a perfect laboratory surrounding. Cooperation between Universities and industrial enterprises are much more common in other countries, such as Great Britain and the United States...

Imec Achieves Record-Low Source/Drain Contact Resistivity for PMOS Transistors
At this week’s 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technology, reported record breaking values below 10^-9 Ohm.cm² for PMOS source/drain contact resistivity...