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MRAM Getting More Attention At Smallest Nodes
tag: FreescaleMRAM Getting More Attention At Smallest Nodes
By Karen Heyman - 10 Aug, 2023 - Comments: 2
Magneto-resistive RAM (MRAM) appears to be gaining traction at the most advanced nodes, in part because of recent improvements in the memory itself and in part because new markets require solutions for which MRAM may be uniquely qualified.
There are still plenty of skeptics when it comes to MRAM, and lots of potential competitors. That has limited MRAM to a niche role over the past couple de... » read more
The Darker Side Of Consolidation
By Ed Sperling - 02 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 1
Another wave of consolidation is underway in the semiconductor industry, setting the stage for some high-stakes competitive battles over market turf and sowing confusion across the supply chain about continued support throughout a product's projected lifetime.
The consolidation comes as chipmakers already are grappling with rising complexity, the loss of a roadmap for future designs as Moore... » read more
Fan-Out Wars Begin
By Mark LaPedus - 05 Feb, 2018 - Comments: 3
Several packaging houses are developing the next wave of high-density fan-out packages for premium smartphones, but perhaps a bigger battle is brewing in the lower density fan-out arena.
Amkor, ASE, STATS ChipPAC and others sell traditional low-density fan-out packages, although some new and competitive technologies are beginning to appear in the market. Low-density fan-out, or sometimes cal... » read more
The New Road Warriors
By Jeff Dorsch - 27 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0
Chip vendors and other companies that have little or no experience in automotive are flooding into this market as the race for assisted and autonomous driving begins to heat up. This market is expected to pay big dividends for companies that succeed in helping to build the vehicles of the future in this century.
IC Insights earlier this year forecast the auto chip market would grow 22% this ... » read more
MEMS Market Shifting
By Ed Sperling - 19 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 0
The MEMS sector is beginning to look more promising, bolstered by new end-market demand and different packaging options that require more advanced engineering, processes and new materials. All of this points to higher selling prices, which are long overdue in this space.
For years, the market for microelectromechanical systems was populated by too many companies vying for too few opportunit... » read more
The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 24 Mar, 2017 - Comments: 0
Chipmakers
China’s IC industry is embarking on a recruitment drive to prepare for the operation of new fabs in 2018, according to TrendForce. “TrendForce’s latest analysis on China’s semiconductor sector reveals that the country’s domestic IC manufacturers are affecting the movement of industry talent worldwide as they continue to aggressively headhunt for senior managers and enginee... » read more
Betting On Wafer-Level Fan-Outs
By Ed Sperling - 06 Feb, 2017 - Comments: 2
Advanced packaging is starting to gain traction as a commercially viable business model rather than just one more possible option, propelled by the technical difficulties in routing signals at 10nm and 7nm and skyrocketing costs of device scaling on a single die.
The inclusion of a [getkc id="202" kc_name="fan-out"] package for logic in Apple's iPhone 7, based on TSMC's Integrated Fan-Out (... » read more
Harder Than It Looks
By Ed Sperling - 01 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0
First Apple scales back plans to develop its own vehicle. Then Intel creates its own automotive chip unit.
This kind of two-step movement in the automotive electronics industry is becoming more common. NXP buys Freescale, then Qualcomm buys NXP. Harman buys Symphony Teleca and Red Bend Software, then Samsung buys Harman.
All of these moves are proof points that innovation and fleet-foo... » read more
New Wave Of Consolidation
By Ed Sperling - 22 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 0
Consolidation is picking up again across the semiconductor industry, against a backdrop of looming interest rate hikes, geopolitical uncertainty, and the erosion of longstanding demarcations between markets.
In the past couple of weeks, Siemens signed a deal to buy [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"] for $4 billion, and [getentity id="22865" e_name="Samsung"] purchased Harman, a ... » read more
Healthcare IoT: Promise And Peril
By Gale Morrison - 03 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 1
By Gale Morrison & Ed Sperling
As more connectivity and communication capability is built into everyday healthcare and medical devices, engineers are tasked with ensuring these devices are both completely secure and ultra-reliable.
Reliability generally is measured in mean time between failure (MTBF), but when it comes to safety-critical markets, that equation takes on a whole new... » read more
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