Aiming to accelerate the adoption of smart manufacturing across the worldwide microelectronics supply chain, the first SEMI Global Smart Manufacturing Conference will gather Industry 4.0 experts October 20-23 to share best known methods (BKMs) for improving data capture and analysis in microelectronics manufacturing. Registration for the virtual conference featuring keynotes, case studies and tutorials is open.
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Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 4.9 Percent Year-to-Year in August
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors were $36.2 billion in August 2020, 4.9 percent more than the August 2019 total of $34.5 billionand 3.6 percent higher than the July 2020 total of $35.0 billion.
Thomas L. Deitrich Joins the ON Semiconductor Board of Directors
ON Semiconductor Corporation today announced that Thomas L. Deitrich was appointed to its board of directors.
Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene
A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.
The Most Sensitive and Fastest Graphene Microwave Bolometer
Scientists from Harvard, ICFO, MIT, Raytheon BBN Technologies and NIMS construct the fastest and most sensitive graphene-based microwave bolometer achieved so far.
Colloidal Quantum Dot Light Emitters Go Broadband in the Infrared
Broadband light emission in the infrared has proven to be of paramount importance for a large range of applications that include food quality and product/process monitoring, recycling, environmental sensing and monitoring, multispectral imaging in automotive as well as safety and security.
IAR Systems Supports Ultra-Low-Power Renesas RE MCU Family in Industry-Leading Arm Tools
IAR Systems, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, announces the update of its leading development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm. The update includes complete coverage for the ultra-low-power Renesas RE microcontroller (MCU) Family.
Hprobe Announces First Automated Test Equipment Dedicated to 3D Magnetic Sensors for Automotive and Industrial Applications
Hprobe, a provider of semiconductor Automated Test Equipment (ATE) for magnetic devices, today announced the first industry turnkey testing equipment dedicated to 3D magnetic sensors used in both automotive and industrial applications.
STMicroelectronics Pioneers Smaller and Faster Chargers and Power Supplies with World’s First Driver and GaN Device
STMicroelectronics has unveiled MasterGaN®, the world-first platform embedding a half-bridge driver based on silicon technology along with a pair of gallium-nitride (GaN) transistors.
NUS Researchers Solve Decades-Old Problem of How to Uniformly Switch Memristors
Lack of uniformity is possibly the biggest challenge in today’s technology of memristor devices as it gives rise to problems like inconsistency, stochastic variability, and instability of the memory state. A uniform switching mechanism in memristors is something researchers have been looking in the last several decades.
