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Startup to biggies; Creating plenty of IoT platforms
There are plenty of IoT clouds in the market. One of platform developer says "We’ve built an IoT cloud so you don’t have to" But the IoT builders need to choose IoT platform carefully which brings the time to development cost down, works well with developer's favorite/preferred hardware/semiconduc
4 min readLam Research's etch tech pushing 3D semiconductor memory production
Lam Research claims its Kiyo F Series conductor etch system is enabling volume production of 3D NAND flash and advanced DRAM by memory semiconductor manufacturers. Lam's technology helps in achieving tight critical dimension (CD) uniformity and control for 3D NAND and uniform etch depth for DRAM
3 min readIoT platform revenues will grow to € 2.4 billion worldwide in 2020
Berg Insight reported the global market for third party Internet of Things (IoT) platforms will show solid growth in the next few years. Other findings reported by Berg Insight includes: Total IoT platform revenues are forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.2 percent
3 min readA mega-merger in the semiconductor equipment market failed
The two leading semiconductor manufacturing equipment companies Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron Limited failed to Merge their businesses due to objection from U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ). The machinery/equipment to the semiconductor chip manufacturing to leading makers Intel, Samsun
1 min readTSMC continue to hold more than 50% share of the top-10 semiconductor foundries in 2014
While the worldwide semiconductor revenue grew by a modest 7.9% to reach a total sales revenue of $339.8 billion in 2014, the worldwide semiconductor foundry market grew by 16.1 percent in 2014 to achieve $46.9 billion in revenue, according to market researcher Gartner. The biggest jump in the sem
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Larger doping molecule enhance performance of organic semiconductor
Organic semiconductors have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional inorganic semiconductors like silicon, offering flexibility, low-cost manufacturing, and the potential for innovative applications such as printed electronics, flexible displays, and painted solar photovoltaic (PV) pane
10 min readPrinted electronics: Liquid crystal molecule that produces high-performance organic FETs
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed a smectic liquid crystal that overcomes many of the challenges posed by organic field effect transistor materials. Crystalline organic semiconductors have attracted a lot of interest for convenient low-cost fabrication by printed electro
5 min read$44.3 Billion semiconductor materials market in 2014 and is growing
Whether semiconductor chip production grows or not in terms of sales revenue, but by volume the chip production is always rising. All the way from 65 nm to 20 nm, chip production was near full capacity in leading fabs in year 2014. The global semiconductor materials market increased 3 percent in
3 min readChina, mobile, IoT and automotive to shuffle semiconductor vendor ranking in 2014-15
The semiconductor market started shifting its centre of gravity to Asia during PC boom of late 80s, and the swirlwind of action now is in China. Asia consumed approximately 60% global semiconductor output in year 2014 and in that China's share is more than 60%. China is not only the world's electro
8 min readSemiconductor lithography: EUV, NIL, DSA are hot areas in 2015
Some of the latest achievements in semiconductor lithography in 2015 1. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has achieved a milestone in extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) technology by exposing more than 1,000 wafers in 24 hours with sustained power of over 90 Watts. 2. Canon
1 min readJaswinder Ahuja: IoT and its consequences of the semiconductor chip design
A new year has dawned and with it emerge fresh new challenges for design engineering teams and for us as key ecosystem partners. The challenges we’ll face in the next 12 months will no doubt be as tough as what we conquered as an industry in 2014, but that’s why we love this industry. Let’s ta
8 min readFreescale India's Satinder Sohi's 2015 predictions for electronics and semicon
The semiconductor industry has moved manifolds in the last couple of years and we have noticed nationwide adoption of the semiconductor products and solutions. In 2014, we saw a lot has been talked about how government is initiating laws and policies to move the industry forward and how semiconducto
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