Five, Inc., the provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, announced today it has further expanded its existing presence in the Austin, Texas, “Silicon Hills” area with the opening of an office to support all aspects of SiFive’s business operations. The Austin office will drive company-wide corporate development, business development, legal, and strategy operations
GaN and SiC Power Semiconductor Market to Hit $3B by 2025
The renewable energy applications in the GaN and SiC power semiconductor market are expected to gain traction during the forecast period as PV inverters, which play a crucial role in converting sunlight into electricity, are expected to adopt these devices to have more efficient power conversion.
Lattice Semiconductor Bridges Interface Gap Between Processors and Industrial Displays with New CrossLink Reference Design
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the availability of the latest in a series of new reference designs featuring the Lattice CrossLink™ FPGA for video bridging applications. The MIPI DSI/CSI-2 to OpenLDI LVDS Interface Bridge reference design provides industrial device customers with a flexible and easy to implement solution to connect today’s more advanced application processors (APs) to the legacy displays still used in many of today’s industrial environments.
Photovoltaic Nanotubes
Physicists discovered a novel kind of nanotube that generates current in the presence of light. Devices such as optical sensors and infrared imaging chips are likely applications, which could be useful in fields such as automated transport and astronomy. In future, if the effect can be magnified and the technology scaled up, it could lead to high-efficiency solar power devices.
ON Semiconductor Completes Acquisition of Quantenna Communications
ON Semiconductor Corp. completed its previously announced acquisition of Quantenna Communications, Inc. for $24.50 per share in an all cash transaction. The goal is to combine Quantenna’sWi-Fi technologies and ON Semiconductor’s power and analog semiconductors to address applications in industrial, automotive, and carrier markets. Quantenna will be integrated into ON Semiconductor’s Analog Solutions Group, headed by Vince Hopkin.
Memory Business: Applications Are Driving the Long-Term Growth
Despite some cyclicality and seasonality, the stand-alone memory market has experienced extraordinary growth over the past decade. This has been driven by important megatrends, such as mobility, cloud computing, AI, and IoT.
Collaborative Research Charts Course to Hundreds of New Nitrides
Groundbreaking study maps out paths to new nitride materials. An interactive map shows stable ternary nitrides highlighted in blue, indicating that they are good candidates for experimentation.
Tuning Into the LCDs Of Tomorrow: Exploring the Novel IGZO-11 Semiconductor
In 1985, Noboru Kimizuka of the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Japan had pioneered the idea of polycrystalline indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO) ceramics, with the general chemical formula (InGaO3)m(ZnO)n (m, n = natural number; hereafter referred to as IGZO-mn). Little would he have thought that its curious electrical properties would bring the electronics industry to license thin-film transistors (TFTs) made from these metal oxides for various devices, including touchable displays.
Key Megatrends for MEMS, Sensors and Imaging at SEMI-MSIG Summit
With MEMS and imaging sensor innovations driving an explosion of transportation, medical, mobile, industrial and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the stage is set for the SEMI MEMS & Imaging Sensors Summit, 25-27 September 2019 at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Grenoble, France. More than 400 industry experts are expected to gather for insights on the latest developments and trends across the supply chain. Registration is open now with early-bird pricing available until August 17, 2019.
Imec Doubles Energy Density Of Its Solid-State Batteries to 400Wh/Liter
Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, digital and energy technologies and partner in EnergyVille, announced a solid-state Li-metal battery cell with an unsurpassed energy density of 400 Wh/liter at a charging speed of 0.5C
