Sales in June were 2.1% more than the May 2021 total of $43.6 billion.
MEMS
Robust Growth Rates Expected For Nearly All IC Products in 2021
Special Purpose Logic, DRAM, Cellphone MPUs, and Display Drivers forecast to lead industry-wide upturn as demand extends into the second half of the year.
Indoor Lighting Creates Power for Rechargeable Devices, Sensors
The researchers used one lighting source, a white LED akin to normal brightness for indoor lights, to test three different modules — a gallium indium phosphide semiconductor, a gallium arsenide semiconductor, and a silicon semiconductor. The light source peaked in intensity on the shorter wavelengths of light.
Posifa Technologies Launches New MEMS Pirani Vacuum Transducer Evaluation Kit
Posifa Technologies today announced the availability of an evaluation kit for its PVC4000 series of digital MEMS Pirani vacuum transducer.
STMicroelectronics Manufactures First 200mm Silicon Carbide Wafers
STMicroelectronics today announced it has manufactured the first 200mm (8-inch) Silicon-Carbide (SiC) bulk wafers for prototyping next-generation power devices from its facility in Norrköping, Sweden.
STMicroelectronics Strengthens Support for Efficient Machine Learning in STM32Cube.AI Ecosystem
STMicroelectronics has expanded the variety of machine-learning techniques available to users of the STM32Cube.AI development environment, giving extra flexibility to solve classification, clustering, and novelty-detection challenges as efficiently as possible.
Integrated Biometrics Names Shawn O’Rourke Chief Executive Officer
Integrated Biometrics (IB), a developer of mobile FBI-certified biometric fingerprint scanners, today announced industry veteran Shawn O’Rourke has been named chief executive officer following the retirement of former CEO Steve Thies.
Intel Elects Andrea Goldsmith to Board of Directors
Intel Corporation today announced that Andrea Goldsmith, dean of engineering and applied science and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University, was elected to Intel’s board of directors, effective Sept. 1, 2021.
Unilumin and STMicroelectronics Jointly Develop LED Display Using ST’s 60GHz Contactless Connectivity Chip for Advanced Video Solutions
STMicroelectronics and Unilumin, a developer of LED displays based in China, today announced that they have worked together to develop a new Unilumin display using the ST60A2, ST’s 60GHz RF transceiver for advanced high-data-rate contactless-transfer solutions.
Main Attraction: Scientists Create World’s Thinnest Magnet
The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature could lead to new applications in computing and electronics – such as high-density, compact spintronic memory devices – and new tools for the study of quantum physics.
