February semiconductor sales reached $26 billion, down 3.2% on January’s $26.9 billion and down 6.2% on the February 2015 total of $27.7 billion, according to SIA. Sales into the Americas fell sharply, decreasing 19.3% year-to-year, while year-to-year sales into China increased 3.5%. “Global semiconductor sales slipped somewhat in February, due to normal seasonal trends, demand …
US companies have 54% of IC market, says IC Insights
Chinese IC companies held only 3% of total IC sales in 2015. American companies held a 54% share of the total worldwide IC market in 2015, which includes sales from IDMs and fabless IC companies, reports IC Insights. The total does not include foundry sales. South Korean companies captured a 20% share of total IC …
Osram shows off at Prolight+Sound 2016 with laser stage light
If I was going to Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt, I would make a bee-line to the Osram stand to take a look at the laser-based spotlights it is developing with an un-named partner. Osram will also show a new RGBW power led for spotlights and a couple of complete led zoom spotlights. Take a look at …
Osram shows off at Prolight+Sound 2016 with laser stage light
Laser spotlights and LED stage lighting from Osram
Osram is revealing laser spotlights and other stage lighting technology at Prolight+Sound 2016 in Frankfurt this week. Basing the laser-based spotlights on work done for laser-based car headlights and medical endoscopes, the spotlights can deliver up to 18,000 lm. “In 2014 Osram received the R&D 100 Award for the development of the Itos Phaser 3000 …
Grim and Gloomy
Chip market forecasting is not what it used to be. In days gone by, even top ten semi CEOs could differ by 100% on something so fundamental as the size of the total semiconductor market. In October 1995, the Chairman of Philips Semiconductors said that the 2000 market could be “nearer $400 billion than $350 …
Mentor combines PCB signal and power integrity design
Mentor Graphics has announced a new release of its HyperLynx signal integrity design tool which now integrates signal and power integrity analysis and 3D-electromagnetic solving for PCB design. The aim, says Mentor, is to speed up complex PCB design by removing the need to switch between applications and user interfaces for different types of analysis. …
502IoT Raspberry Pi add-on promises to be a professional sensor hub
Raspberry Pi add-ons are often popular, and here is one for increased I/O. It’s created by Pi 2 Design, “to deliver on the promise of the ‘Internet of Things’ for real world projects,” they say. Basically, the 502IoT is designed to help create a low cost, sensor hub, data collection, data storage or gateway device. Supporting “access to …
502IoT Raspberry Pi add-on promises to be a professional sensor hub
Top 10 (+15) Best Paying Jobs In USA
Thanks to Glassdoor for this one – the top 25 best paid jobs in the USA.
Marvell Co-Founders Ousted From Management Roles
The most famous couple in tech have been ousted. Weili Dai and Suhat Sutardja who founded Marvell in 1995 with Suhat’s brother Pantas, have been fired from their jobs as President and CEO respectively. Sutardja remains as Chairman and both of them remain on the board. The move is reminiscent of how George and Gust …
Cadence addresses complex analogue designs for IoT
Cadence Design Systems has addressed verification of complex analogue IC designs with its latest Virtuoso platform. This is a recognition of the growing importance of analogue and mixed chip design for data gatheirng nodes which are part of the internet of things (IoT). The tool’s Analogue Design Environment (ADE) will be used for advanced-node designs …