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Silicon area shipments up but revenues less than ten years ago

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Silicon wafer area shipments in 2017 increased by 10% against 2016 shipments, while worldwide silicon revenues rose by 21% over 2016 levels, reports the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). ImageSilicon wafer area shipments in 2017 totaled 11,810 million square inches (MSI), up from the previous market high of 10,738 million square inches shipped during 2016. …

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Samsung to put $12bn into second line at Pyeongtaek

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Samsung is to put $12.6 billion into a second line at its Pyeongtaek fab. Line 1 at Pyeongtaek, which cost $14.4 billion, is for NAND. Line 2 is for DRAM. Earlier this week Samdung xigned an MOU with China’s NRDC to respond to the shortage in DRAM which has been affecting  the profitability of China’s …

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Hynix launches 4TB SSDs made with 72-layer NAND

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Hynix has announced SSDs based on 72 layer 3D NAND memory chips. The SSDs are targeted at data centre and enterprise usage, and  come in capacities up to 4TB. The SSDs have 512Gb dies. They come in both SATA and PCIe interface versions. Sequential reads and writes of the SATA drive are 560MB/s and 515MB/s respectively. …

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5G expertise supports major European network project

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The 5G NORMA consortium is a Europe-wide project looking at developing a flexible 5G network architecture that will support network slicing. A report considering the technical and economic aspects of the proposed 5G NORMA network architecture has been published after more than two years of research and modelling. The report “Evaluation architecture design and socioeconomic …

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DC-DC converters for railway applications

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Vicor’s next generation of dc-dc converter modules operate across 43-154V for rail transport and infrastructure applications. For most versions maximum output power is 240W, despite the 36 x 23mm (‘3623’) footprint. The outputs are regulated and isolated, and efficiency is up to 93%. “Modern rail infrastructure requires a wide range of DC-DC converters to power …

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Premier Farnell signs IDT in global deal

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Premier Farnell has signed a worldwide distribution with supplier IDT. The online distributor will stock IDT’s RF, timing, memory interface, real-time interconnect, optical interconnect, wireless power and sensing products. Chris Allexandre, senior vice president global sales and marketing at IDT said the deal with Premier Farnell, which includes the Farnell element14 in Europe is intended …

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Aspen stocks 5G mm-wave devices from Farran Tech

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5G/WiGig 60GHz components and mm-wave vector network analyser (VNA) test systems from Farran Technology are now available in the UK at Aspen Electronics. The 5G products include the WR-15 harmonic mixer 50-75GHz with low conversion loss and flat frequency response. It also has an unbiased anti-parallel diode pair. There is also a noise source enclosure …

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NI increases channel density in semiconductor test push

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NI has introduced a PXI-based source measure unit (SMU), which provides six times more DC channel density than its previous PXI SMUs for testing RF, MEMS, and mixed-signal and other analogue semiconductor components. According to Eric Starkloff, NI executive vice president of global sales and marketing, semiconductor test is “a strategic focus” and the company …

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