Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Organization (ITRI) is building a flexible OLED lighting panel production line capable of producing 700 panels a month, reports Digitimes. Production on the roll-to-roll line is scheduled to start next year. The panels are made using thin film glass substrates. A 7cm by 7cm OLED lighting panel with luminous efficiency of …
Semiconductor materials market fell 1.5% in 2015
The semiconductor materials market decreased 1.5% in 2015, says SEMI. Total wafer fabrication materials and packaging materials were $24.1 billion and $19.3 billion, respectively. Comparable revenues for these segments in 2014 were $24.2 billion for wafer fabrication materials and $19.8 billion for packaging materials. The wafer fabrication materials segment decreased 1% year-over-year, while the packaging …
Keysight adds waveform creation software to PXIe generator
Keysight Technologies has upgraded its 16-channel, PXIe digital stimulus/response (DSR) module with the inclusion of pattern editing development software. The pattern editing development software can be used to create and edit waveform patterns or to import digital patterns created by automatic test generation applications and other sources. The DSR can synchronise up to 12 modules …
Azul ports Java virtual machine to ARM processors
Azul Systems, the Java runtime developer run by Scott Sellers, has developed a version of its open source Java Virtual Machine (JVM) called Zulu Embedded which supports 32-bit ARM processors. This means it supports processors based on the ARM v6, v7 and 32-bit v8 architectures, as well as continuing support for x86 32 and 64-bit …
Power chip start-up benefits from specialist ams foundry
Austria-based mixed-signal IC foundry ams has confirmed, at the CDNLive event in Santa Clara/CA, that it is manufacturing Sarda’s advanced high-voltage CMOS drivers which are used in its Heterogeneous Integrated Power Stage (HIPS). US-based Sarda has developed the technology to address the rapidly escalating power consumption in data centres by offering fast and efficient voltage …
Box data storage available on the IBM Cloud in Europe and Asia
Box co-founder and CEO, Aaron Levie, and IBM Cloud vice-president, Robert LeBlanc, have announced in London that the companies are making the Box data storage platform available on the IBM Cloud in Europe and Asia. This means that users in Europe or Asia can store their data locally. The companies will also offer a hybrid …
Box data storage available on the IBM Cloud in Europe and Asia
How to test small cells to meet 5G data demand
With the advent of 5G mobile services by 2020 network operators will rely on a new type of flexible basestation called the small cell to meet dramatically increasing data traffic in mobile networks and this will bring its own requirements for testing, writes Juan Hidalgo With mobile data traffic predicted to grow at a yearly …
Leti 3D chip technology gets big push from Qualcomm
A 3D chip technology, which stacks active layers of transistors without the need for through-silicon vias (TSVs) has been developed by Leti and is the focus of a collaboration with Qualcomm. Dubbed CoolCube, the French research centre has developed a device scale-stacking technology for complex system-on-chips such as mobile processors which is why Qualcomm is …
PC Sales Carry On Falling
The PC collapse continues. IDC reports an 11.5% y-o-y drop in unit shipments in Q1 2016 compared to Q1 2015 to 60.6 million. Q4’s y-o-y drop was 10.6%. The main reason is because people are buying mobile devices not computers. As the market declines, the top players gain market share. Lenovo now has 19.3%, HP …
March Bounce For TSMC
Industry bellwether TSMC had a revenue bounce in March with sales of $2.26 billion which is 22.7% up on February’s sales of $1.86 billion. TSMC’s March revenue was pretty well flat with the $2.23 billion of March 2015. TSMC’s YTD revenues of $6.3 billion are 8.3% down on the Jan-March 2015 revenues of $6.9 billion. …