Plasma-Therm, LLC a leading manufacturer of plasma-process equipment for the semiconductor industry, is pleased to announce the opening of its Specialty Process Engineering Group facility in Somerset, England.
Semiconductors
Eindhoven Researchers Present Revolutionary Light-Emitting Silicon
Emitting light from silicon has been the ‘Holy Grail’ in the microelectronics industry for decades. Solving this puzzle would revolutionize computing, as chips will become faster than ever. Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology now succeeded: they have developed an alloy with silicon that can emit light. The results have been published in the journal Nature. The team will now start creating a silicon laser to be integrated into current chips.
Camtek Receives $8 Million Order for Multiple Inspection Systems From a Tier-1 Global CMOS Image Sensor Manufacturer
Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ: CAMT) (TASE: CAMT), today announced that it received an order for multiple EagleT-i systems, its advanced inspection system, from a tier-one global CMOS Image Sensor manufacturer, totaling $8 million. The systems are expected to be delivered during the second and the third quarters of 2020.
Valens Semiconductor Announces New CEO and New Chairman of Its Board of Directors
Valens, the developer of high-speed connectivity technology for the audio-video and automotive markets, and its Board of Directors announced today that Dr. Peter Mertens has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. Gideon Ben-Zvi, who has been the company’s Interim CEO since February 2020, has now been appointed as the company’s official CEO.
Tachyum Opens New European Union Headquarters in Slovakia
Semiconductor startup Tachyum Inc. today announced that it has opened new offices in Slovakia that will enable it to best address the regional needs of its growing number of customers, partners, vendors and personnel throughout the European Union. Tachyum’s worldwide headquarters remain located in Silicon Valley.
CEVA Announces Industry’s First High Performance Sensor Hub DSP Architecture
CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, today announced SensPro, the industry’s first high performance sensor hub DSP architecture designed to handle the broad range of sensor processing and sensor fusion workloads for contextually-aware devices.
Renesas Expands Equipment Control and Networking Portfolio With New 32-Bit RX72N and RX66N MCUs for Industrial Automation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the RX72N Group and RX66N Group of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), new additions to the RX Family that combines equipment control and networking function on a single chip.
COVID-19: Economic and Microelectronics Industry Impacts – Insights from McKinsey & Company
For five days in the latter half of March, the pall of the heavy human and economic toll COVID-19 has exacted in China appeared to be lifting.
Faraday Adopts Synopsys’ Platform Architect and Hybrid Prototyping Solutions to Expand Design Services
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), today announced that Faraday Technology Corporation has expanded their SoC design services to use Synopsys prototyping solutions, including Platform Architect™ for SoC architecture design and optimization, and HAPS® FPGA-based prototyping for hardware and software co-design to accelerate time-to-market.
Global Semiconductor Sales in February Down 2.4 Percent Month-to-Month
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors were $34.5 billion for the month of February 2020, a decrease of 2.4 percent from the January 2020 total of $35.4 billion, but a jump of 5.0 percent compared to the February 2019 total of $32.9 billion.
