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Exploring smart sensor explosive growth at SEMICON West 2017

06/20/2017  MEMS & Sensors Industry Group announces programs and speakers for SEMICON West 2017 (July 11-13).

What TechInsights analysts are watching in 2017

06/19/2017  TechInsights analysts share their view on where technology is going, how it’s changing, and what new developments are emerging.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, ON Semiconductor deliver the industry's lowest power Bluetooth low energy SoC family

06/19/2017  GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON) today announced the availability of a System-on-Chip (SoC) family of devices, on GF's 55nm Low Power Extended (55LPx), RF-enabled process technology platform.

To connect biology with electronics, be rigid, yet flexible

06/19/2017  Researchers uncover design principles to make polymers that can transport both ions and electrons.

The automotive electronics market: A view from a material supplier

06/16/2017  With the increasing sophistication of future vehicles, new and more advanced semiconductor technologies will be used and vehicles will become technology centers.

7 of the top 10 smartphone suppliers headquartered in China

06/15/2017  China accounted for 10 of top 14 leading smartphone suppliers in 2016, share grows to 39%.

Breakthrough by Queen's University paves way for smaller electronic devices

06/14/2017  Queen's University Belfast researchers have discovered a new way to create extremely thin electrically conducting sheets, which could revolutionise the tiny electronic devices that control everything from smart phones to banking and medical technology.

Lab on a chip could monitor health, germs and pollutants

06/13/2017  Rutgers researchers invent technology that could lead to wearable biosensors.

SUNY ranks among top 100 worldwide for patents granted in 2016

06/12/2017  The State University of New York ranked 38th in the “Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents for 2016,” according to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).

New computing system takes its cues from the human brain

06/12/2017  The new system employs a network of electronic oscillators to solve graph coloring tasks – a type of problem that tends to choke modern computers.

SiTime enables industrial IoT applications with smallest, lowest-power, precision MEMS reference clocks

06/12/2017  These timing solutions, available in a tiny CSP (chip-scale package), enable coin-cell battery operated IoT sensors to run up to 10 years.

The drive to smart manufacturing

06/09/2017  What does Smart Manufacturing mean for the future of the electronics manufacturing supply chain?

The first nanometrically-sized superelastic alloy

06/09/2017  UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country's researchers have explored superelasticity properties on a nanometric scale based on shearing an alloy's pillars down to nanometric size.

Imec achieves record-low source/drain contact resistivity for PMOS transistors

06/08/2017  Imec is wrapping up at the Symposia on VLSI Technology this week with two announcements: the reporting of record breaking values below 10^-9 Ohm.cm² for PMOS source/drain contact resistivity and new process improvements for next generation devices.

The audio world has stepped into another dimension

06/07/2017  Market for MEMS microphones and ECMs, micro-speakers and audio ICs will be worth US$20 billion in 2022.

Imec demonstrates breakthrough in CMOS-compatible ferroelectric memory

06/07/2017  Imec has proved the validity of ferroelectric memory as a promising technology at various points in the memory hierarchy, and as a new technology for storage class memory -- today, it demonstrated the world's first a vertically stacked ferroelectric Al doped HfO2 device for NAND applications.

Queen's researcher's 'miracle material' discovery could end cracked smart devices

06/02/2017  A Queen's University researcher has led an international team of scientists to the discovery of a new material, which could finally bring an end to the misery of cracked smartphone and tablet screens.

Volatility in electronic equipment supply chain

06/01/2017  SEMI’s year-to-date worldwide semiconductor equipment billings year-to-date through March show a 59.6 percent gain to the same period last year.

EV Group expands production capacity at corporate headquarters in Austria

05/31/2017  EV Group (EVG) announced that it is expanding production capacity at its corporate headquarters in St. Florian am Inn, Austria.

2017 automotive IC market on pace for record year

05/31/2017  22% forecast increase driven by system growth, rising ASPs for memory and logic devices.




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