Sales of chip manufacturing equipment rose 37% to $56.6 billion last year, says SEMI

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59 years ago a scientist wrote this heading in his notebook: “Methods of isolating multiple devices”. Underneath the heading he wrote: “In many applications now it would be desirable to make multiple devices on a single piece of silicon in order to be able to make interconnections between devices as part of the manufacturing process, …

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Leti’s silicon photonics PDK for photonic circuits is available in the Synopsys PhoeniX OptoDesigner suite.

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An LED street light wireless luminaire controller compliant with the LoRaWAN standard.

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The IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF) creates a professional membership category for developers and IT staff

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Samsung Electronics forecasts a $14.7 billion Q1 profit – 57.6% up on Q1 2017. Q1 revenues are expected to be up 18.7% y-o-y at $56.4 billion. The semiconductor division is expected to contribute $10 billion of the overall $14.7 billion profit on the back of the surge in memory ASPs and a reduction in memory …

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Microsemi has had its cesium clocks certified to the G.811.1 recommendation (known as enhanced Primary Reference Clocks, or ePRC) from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) which raises the bar for frequency accuracy by an order of magnitude from 1x10E-11 to 1x10E-12. Microsemi’s cesium frequency standards 5071A, TimeCesium 4400 and TimeCesium 4500 with ePRC compliance meet …

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The 4G/5G spectrum auction raised £1.36 billion, which was more than expected.

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Enhancement mode p-GaN power devices on 200mm substrates, processed on Imec’s silicon pilot line

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