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NXP to Buy Freescale for $11.8 Billion

02 Mar 2015   -   SEMICONDUCTOR VALUE CHAIN

Two semiconductor companies with similar private equity backgrounds have agreed to merge and create a top 10 chip company that can provide "secure connections for a smarter world."

Freescale-NXP Merger Leaves Fewer Viable Alternatives in Chip Market

02 Mar 2015   -   COMMENTARY

The proposed $11.8 billion deal will make the combined new company the 7th largest chip supplier in the world and put the new company in a very strong position to compete in the highly-competitive automotive semiconductor space.

Paper-like Material Could Help Power EVs

25 Feb 2015   -   TECHNOLOGY

New material developed at University of California-Riverside could boost by several times the amount of energy that can be delivered by a lithium-ion battery.

U.K. Preps for Electric Vehicle Boom

23 Feb 2015   -   COMMENTARY

With UVs becoming popular in the country, the government has established an inventive program offering 25 percent off EVs and PHEVs.

Toyota Begins Silicon Carbide Chip Trial

05 Feb 2015   -   SEMICONDUCTORS AND COMPONENTS

Toyota is testing SiC power semiconductors in hybrid and EVs with a planned trial run in Japan hoping for better performance that could then be used in future vehicle models.

Banner Year for Automotive Chips

29 Jan 2015   -   SEMICONDUCTORS AND COMPONENTS

Strong sales of vehicles as well as increase chip content in automobiles led the automotive IC market to strong growth in 2014 reaching $29 billion for the year, a 10 percent growth from the prior year.

Infineon Goes Top of Automotive Chip Market Ranking

28 Jan 2015   -   ELECTRONICS AND SEMICONDUCTORS

Infineon jumped over Renesas to go top of the automotive chip market in 2014 in a sector that is showing steady growth at rates above the total chip market average.

Infineon, UMC Extend Foundry Deal to Automotive Power

15 Dec 2014   -   ELECTRONICS AND SEMICONDUCTORS

UMC extends Infineon foundry relationship and automotive strategy with deal to make Infineon's smart power technology on 300mm wafers.

Bourns Buys Battery Safety Firm

04 Dec 2014   -   SEMICONDUCTORS AND COMPONENTS

Acquisition will bring complementary products to the company in its plan for long-term growth in the lithium-ion battery market.

GaN Systems Signs with Japanese Distributor

04 Dec 2014   -   POWER SEMICONDUCTORS

Japanese distributor Daitron to sell GaN Systems’ gallium nitride power switching chips in Japan and Korea.

LED Matrix Manager Drives Auto Headlamp Arrays

26 Nov 2014   -   SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

LEDs are an increasingly viable option for headlamps, but an array of LEDs is difficult to control on a per-LED basis; the Texas Instruments TPS92661-Q1 is designed to alleviate the problem and enable electronic steering of the light-beam output.

Power Supply Consortium Agrees on Standards

17 Nov 2014

A trio of power supply makers has formed the AMP consortium and exhibited their first products adhering to common standards.

Fast-charging Batteries

10 Nov 2014   -   TECHNOLOGY

Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a new electric vehicle battery that can be charged to 70% of its total capacity in just two minutes.

Why UMC is Boosting Automotive Chip Business

19 Sep 2014   -   SEMICONDUCTORS AND COMPONENTS

Foundry pushing to increase automotive semiconductor participation in order to take advantage of a changing marketplace shifting to one of the largest growing chip markets.

Charging Electric Vehicles Wirelessly

12 Aug 2014   -   TECHNOLOGY

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB are developing a means of charging EV batteries wirelessly.

Infineon Rejects Europe's Chip Manufacturing Plan

19 May 2014   -   SEMICONDUCTOR VALUE CHAIN

Chip company CEO says focus must be on adding value for the customer and then finding the most economic way to deliver it, apparently putting him at odds with a European Commission initiative to increase European chip manufacturing.

ADAS Chip Market to Grow 20% in 2014

28 Apr 2014   -   ELECTRONICS AND SEMICONDUCTORS

Annual ADAS chip market is heading towards $2 billion in 2017, according to IHS Technology

NXP's China Automotive Chip JV Begins Operations

24 Apr 2014   -   ELECTRONICS AND SEMICONDUCTORS

As NXP turns in a profitable first quarter the first shipments have left the warehouse of China's first dedicated automotive chip company.

Experts Sound Alarm On Rare Earth Element Sourcing

19 Mar 2014   -   INDUSTRIAL & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

China's Near-monopoly on Rare Earth Elements Worries Experts

Global Production of Electric Vehicles to Surge 67 Percent This Year

17 Feb 2014   -   TECHNOLOGY

Driven by tighter emission standards in Europe, worldwide production of electric vehicles (EVs) will soar by 67 percent this year. Total production of EVs—both pure electric models and plug-in...