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Rare, All-Electric Chinese SUV and Newest Chevy Autonomous Test Vehicle to be Previewed This Week
China’s Xpeng Motors will display and dissect an automotive unicorn – a rare, all-electric sports utility vehicle – at SEMICON West this week.
Advanced Packaging: A Wonderful World
The semiconductor industry is at a turning point. The slowdown in CMOS scaling, coupled with escalating costs, has prompted the industry to rely on IC packaging to extend the benefits of the More-than-Moore era. Thus, advanced packaging has entered its most successful period, boosted by widespread needs for better integration; the slowdown of Moore’s law; and megatrends in transportation, 5G, consumer, memory & computing, IoT (and IIoT ), AI , and HPC.
SEMI Americas and Semiconductor Digest Announce 2019 “Best of West” Award Finalists: CyberOptics, Advantest and Edwards
SEMI and Semiconductor Digest today announced finalists for the Best of West award to be presented at SEMICON West 2019, July 9-11 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Smart Parking and Sensors in the Age of IoT
Poorly managed parking resources have a substantial negative impact on cities — one that has been well-documented.
Robert H. Dennard, DRAM Inventor and Scaling Pioneer, to Receive Semiconductor Industry’s Top Honor
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced Dr. Robert H. Dennard, pioneer of transformational breakthroughs in semiconductor technology and IBM Fellow Emeritus, has been named the 2019 recipient of SIA’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award.
Emerging Semiconductor Substrates: What Will Be The Next Game-Changer?
Yole Développement (Yole) expects the emerging semiconductor substrate market to surpass US$400 million, growing at a 24% CAGR between 2018 and 2024.
Shell Increases Versatility of Nanowires
Laboratory experiments show that semiconductor nanowires can be tuned over wide energy ranges.
U.S. Companies Dominate Worldwide IC Marketshare
China and Taiwan companies register double-digit shares in the fabless segment but very low shares of the IDM IC segment. U.S. companies had just over 50% of the total worldwide IC market.
GaN and SiC Power Semiconductor Market to Hit $3B by 2025
The renewable energy applications in the GaN and SiC power semiconductor market are expected to gain traction during the forecast period as PV inverters, which play a crucial role in converting sunlight into electricity, are expected to adopt these devices to have more efficient power conversion.
