According to IC Insights that fabless IC suppliers represented 30% of the world’s IC sales in 2016 (up from only 18% ten years earlier in 2006). As the name implies, fabless IC companies do not have an IC fabrication facility of their own...

HSINCHU, Taiwan - United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Synopsys today announced that the two companies have worked together to enable Synopsys Custom Compiler and Laker custom design tools to be used with UMC's 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process...

HSINCHU, Taiwan - United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Synopsys today announced that the two companies have worked together to enable Synopsys Custom Compiler and Laker custom design tools to be used with UMC's 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process...

Analog Bits today announced availability of front-end design kits which enable use of low power IP on TSMC's latest 7nm process nodes. These design kits provide customers with early access to Analog Bits' latest low-power IP for SERDES, PLL, PVT sensors and POR - which are already shipping in other TSMC nodes such as 16FFC and 16FFP which will be demonstrated at the Symposium...

Analog Bits today announced availability of front-end design kits which enable use of low power IP on TSMC's latest 7nm process nodes. These design kits provide customers with early access to Analog Bits' latest low-power IP for SERDES, PLL, PVT sensors and POR - which are already shipping in other TSMC nodes such as 16FFC and 16FFP which will be demonstrated at the Symposium...

Annual total semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discrete, or O-S-D, devices) are forecast to continue their upward march in the next five years and are now expected to top one trillion units for the first time in 2018, according to the IC Insights...

Annual total semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discrete, or O-S-D, devices) are forecast to continue their upward march in the next five years and are now expected to top one trillion units for the first time in 2018, according to the IC Insights...