Semiconductor supply chain sustainability and resilience will come into sharp focus 21-23 June 2022 as SEMICON Southeast Asia, the region’s premier gathering of the semiconductor and microelectronics industry, returns to the Setia SPICE Convention Centre & Arena in Penang, Malaysia following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
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Samsung’s LPDDR5X DRAM Validated for Use with Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Mobile Platforms
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has validated Samsung’s 14-nanometer (nm) based 16-gigabit (Gb) Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM for use on Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon mobile platforms.
Breker Verification Systems Unleashes the SystemUVM Initiative to Empower UVM Engineering
Breker Verification Systems used the opening of DVCon U.S. today to unveil SystemUVM, a framework designed to simplify specification model composition for test content synthesis with a UVM/SystemVerilog syntactic and semantic approach familiar to universal verification methodology (UVM) engineers.
Leaders in Semiconductors, Packaging, IP Suppliers, Foundries, and Cloud Service Providers Join Forces to Standardize Chiplet Ecosystem
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Intel Corporation, Meta, Microsoft Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announced the formation of an industry consortium that will establish a die-to-die interconnect standard and foster an open chiplet ecosystem.
STMicroelectronics Recognized as Top 100 Global Innovator 2022
STMicroelectronics has been named Top 100 Global Innovator 2022.
CEVA Announces Milestone of 100 Million CEVA-powered Cellular IoT Chips Shipped
CEVA, Inc., the licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and integrated IP solutions, today announced that more than 100 million CEVA-powered cellular IoT chips have been shipped by CEVA licensees since the beginning of 2020.
Advanced MEMS Sensors from STMicroelectronics Power-Up the Onlife Era
STMicroelectronics is introducing its third generation of MEMS sensors. The new sensors enable the next leap in performance and features for consumer mobiles and smart industries, healthcare, and retail.
UMC Announces New 22nm Wafer Fab in Singapore
United Microelectronics Corporation, a global semiconductor foundry, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to build a new advanced manufacturing facility next to its existing 300mm fab (Fab12i) in Singapore.
SIA Statement on Sanctions on Russia
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) released the following statement from SIA President and CEO John Neuffer regarding new export control rules announced today in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Microprocessor Growth Will Slow in 2022 after Cellphone MPU Surge
Total MPU sales are expected to rise 7% this year with cellphone processors increasing 10% following a 31% jump in 2021; modest growth is seen in computer CPUs and embedded MPUs, says new 1Q update.
