Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

Integrated LED Lighting Poised to Challenge Traditional Light Bulbs

With 42 percent of light bulb shipments expecting to be LED replacement lamps by 2022, integrated LED bulbs—which combine the LED and driver electronic into the luminaire itself—are gaining traction in the replacement market.

SanDisk Rolls Flash Storage System for Enterprise

InfiniFlash said to offer 50 times the performance and five times the density of current HDD offerings at a cost of less than $1 per gigabyte.

Chip Industry Posts Record Sales for January

Sales up nearly 9 percent year-over-year as 2015 gets off to a strong start.

Microchip Debuts First LoRa Alliance Wireless Module

At Mobile World Congress, Microchip Technology rolled out the first in a series of modules that support the LoRa standard designed to enable a wireless networking interface for IoT and M2M applications.

Fujitsu-Panasonic Chip Spinoff Socionext Opens Doors

Joint venture that took over system LSI divisions of Fujitsu and Panasonic now open for business.

MediaTek Forms Venture Capital Unit

Taiwan's rising star fabless chip company sets aside $300 million for strategic investments in startups around the world; launches two more processors to power mobile devices.

JDSU to Split Into Two Public Companies

One firm to focus on optical components and another to specialize in network enablement, service enablement, optical security and performance products.

Startup Offers FPGA Fabric, Software For License

The chance to refine and adapt 28nm system chips is being opened up by FPGA fabric available as an IP core, and associated design software, courtesy of one-year-old startup Flex Logix.

Intel Rolls First Integrated Communications SoC

At Mobile World Congress, chip maker launches its first integrated communications system-on-chip for tablets, phablets and smartphones as well as a new LTE modem and cloud based partnerships.

Broadcom Inks Deals with SK Telecom, KT

Chip maker signs up two of the largest telecommunications companies in Korea for its small cell system-on-chip offering in order to expand capacity and increase speed of their infrastructure.

NXP to Buy Freescale for $11.8 Billion

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."

Samsung, LG, Sony to Dominate Flat Panel Shipments in 2015

Top three TV makers forecast to increase spending on display shipments this year and command greater influence among panel suppliers, especially in the event of a supply shortage.

SMIC Producing New CMOS Image Sensors

Working with fabless semiconductor vendor Cista System, the foundry is hoping the jointly developed image sensors will open up new opportunities to gain customers in the sensor sector.

Synopsys Aims to Accelerate Adoption of ARC Embedded Systems

EDA firm creates open-source software platform designed to ease the creation of the Internet of Things and other embedded applications.

Automotive Display Revenue Soars

While many display sectors experienced declines in 2014, the automotive display market reached new heights by becoming the second overall sector in displays behind mobile handsets.

Consortium Upgrades CoreMark Processor Benchmark

Benchmark updated to better exercise larger memory requirements, parallelism and floating-point operations.

Heterogeneous Processing Specification Ready For Launch

The HSA Foundations' charter is to find better ways to let CPUs, GPUs and DSPs of different architectures work together. A key milestone has been reached as the industry body prepares to launch the HSA 1.0 specification.