Thanks to TechInsights for this – the ten best semiconductor manufacturing equipment suppliers in 2022:

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At Electronica 2022 we caught up with Dr. Stefan Fischer, the Vice President of NGK Europe, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. NGK Insulators are ceramic specialists and he shares his thoughts on Electronica featuring, firstly, EnerCera, a battery for IoT devices that contributes to the realization of Society 5.0, secondly, a …

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ROHM has created a range of five different coloured 0603 (1608 metric 1.6 x 0.8mm) LEDs, the CSL1901 series, optimised for 2mA operation. “In recent years, technological advancements have resulted in dramatically improved luminous efficiency”, according to the company. “At the same time, the market is demanding LEDs tailored to characteristics in the low current …

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ROHM has signed a joint development agreement with Mazda for inverters and SiC power modules to be used in e-Axle systems. e-Axles integrate a motor, reduction gearbox, and inverter into a single unit that plays a large part in determining the driving performance and power conversion efficiency of electric vehicles. SiC MOSFETs in particular are …

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Satellite Vu, the British Earth Observation company, has signed its first major customer through its Early Access Option Programme (EAOP). Described as multi-million pound purchase option, the client is the Japan Space Imaging Corporation (JSI), which provides of geospatial information, including satellite data, to civil and commercial markets in Japan. Basically, JSI will be expanding …

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The 2023 semi capex will see its largest decline since 2008-9, says IC Insights. A weak memory market and U.S. sanctions on China semiconductor producers are two driving factors behind the expected -19% drop in semiconductor capital spending in 2023. At the start of this year, semiconductor suppliers were enjoying a strong influx of orders …

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TSMC is charging $20,000 for its 3nm finfet wafers, reports DigiTimes, up from $16k for its 5nm wafers and $10k for its 7nm wafers. That it can get that price for 3nm is to some extent dependent on it having no competition. Samsung  started its GAA 3nm production in June but reports say yields are …

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Infineon Technologies has introduced a single power module that can handle up to 352kW in three-level solar string inverter applications. Called F3L600R10W4S7F_C22, and aimed at for 1.5kVdc inverters, it combines six 950V IGBTs with six silicon carbide diodes for an overall rating of 950V and 600A. Packaging is the company’s recently-introduced EasyPack 4B (below left), …

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For its 70th year, the IEEE has published the advanced programme for next February’s International Solid State Circuit Converference (ISSCC 2023), and announced ‘Building on 70 years of innovation in solid-state circuit design’ as its theme. Supporting the theme are six tutorials, five forums, four plenary presentations and a short course. The main conference will …

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We are excited to announce support for configuring Spark properties within EMR Studio Jupyter Notebook sessions for interactive Spark workloads. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to efficiently run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDEs) such as EMR Studio .