Semiconductors

China to Fall Far Short of its “Made-in-China 2025” Goal for IC Devices

Domestic content percentage forecast to be about one-third of its 70% 2025 target.

IT Spending Indicators May Be Bottoming Out for Now but US Business Confidence Continues to Plunge, According to IDC COVID-19 Tech Index

Leading indicators for IT spending appear to be stabilizing and bottoming out in many countries, reflecting a period of relative calm before economic lockdown measures are expected to be eased in the next few weeks.

Power Block MOSFET from Diodes Incorporated Increases Power Converter Efficiency and Saves PCB Space

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) today announced the availability of the first in a new generation of discrete MOSFETs. The DMN3012LEG delivers increased efficiency in a smaller package to provide significant cost, power, and space savings in a wide variety of power conversion and control applications.

Samsung Electronics Expands its Foundry Capacity with A New Production Line in Pyeongtaek, Korea

Samsung today announced plans to boost its foundry capacity at the company’s new production line in Pyeongtaek, Korea, to meet growing global demand for cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) solutions.

Advanced Energy Promotes Neil Brinker to President

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. today announced the promotion of Neil D. Brinker to the position of President, effective May 20, 2020. Mr. Brinker will also continue to serve in his current role as Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Energy.

Keysight 5G Device Test and Validation Solutions Selected by China Unicom

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that China Unicom, one of the world’s largest mobile operators, has selected the company’s 5G device testing solutions to ensure 5G smartphones and consumer premises equipment (CPE) comply to the latest 5G new radio (NR) standards.

Breakthrough in Research on Production of 2D Crystals with Excellent Optical Properties

For the first time, monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with excellent optical properties were grown. A team of physicists from the University of Warsaw managed to overcome the technical difficulties faced by industry and scientists from around the world, namely the very limited size, heterogeneity, and broadening of the spectral lines of fabricated materials.

Penn Engineers Develop First Tunable, Chip-Based ‘Vortex Microlaser’ and Detector

As computers get more powerful and connected, the amount of data that we send and receive is in a constant race with the technologies that we use to transmit it. Electrons are now proving insufficiently fast and are being replaced by photons as the demand for fiber optic internet cabling and data centers grow.

New Model N Platform Capabilities Enable High Tech Companies to Drive Revenue Growth and Channel Performance

Model N, Inc. announced a range of new features as part of its Spring 2020 high tech product release.

Telehealth to Experience Massive Growth with COVID-19 Pandemic, Says Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Telehealth—A Technology-Based Weapon in the War Against the Coronavirus, 2020, finds that the demand for telehealth technology is expected to rise dramatically as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare worldwide.

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