Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

LED Matrix Manager Drives Auto Headlamp Arrays

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.

MediaTek, SMIC Help Form $1.7 Billion Chinese Equity Fund

A massive private equity fund formed by SummitView Capital is chartered with the acquisition of global design companies from around the world and helping them prosper within China.

UDI Targets Wearables with Ultra-thin Touch Sensors

Touch panel maker is developing thin touch products in order to meet the demands of consumers that want next-generation wearable mobile devices to be thin but with enhanced performance.

TSMC Orders EUV Lithography Tools For Production

Foundry TSMC has ordered to production scanners for extreme ultraviolet lithography of integrated circuits, according to equipment supplier ASML. The chipmaker looks set to insert the long-awaited production technique in its 10nm FinFET node in 2016.

Intel Tips 256-Gbit 3D-NAND Memory

Intel is getting ready to sell a 256-Gbit 3D-NAND flash memory that could be extended to a 384-Gbit capacity, but it will mainly sell the memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs).

Atmel Launches Digital Temperature Sensor Family

New line of devices that offer an expand voltage range to lower the BOM in systems in the consumer, industrial, computer and medical markets.

Microchip Expands 8-Bit MCU Safety Portfolio

Chip firm targeting the appliance market with a line of microcontrollers that will reduce latency and power while increasing system efficiency and safety.

Samsung Adopts AMD’s FreeSync Technology

The technology will allow for refresh rates to be synchronized to the frame rate of graphics cards and APUs to reduce latency and eliminate “screen tear."

Industrial Chip Market on Pace for 13% Growth

Strength in China and a resurgent U.S. economy propelling industrial semiconductor market to second consecutive year of double digit growth, according to IHS.

Marvell Adds Octacore to LTE Mobile Processor Range

Marvell has added two more application processors with integrated LTE modem as it seeks to compete in both high- and low-end of smartphone and tablet computer markets.

SanDisk Invests in LTE-Only Altair

SanDisk Ventures has invested an undisclosed sum in long-standing LTE-only chipset pioneer Altair Semiconductor.

ARM MCUs to Shine at ISSCC 2015

A Cortex-M0+ MCU core that can operate at 0.25V and another that can be powered by a solar cell on a speck of silicon are two of the stand-out presentations scheduled for ISSCC 2015 in February.

IBM, Altera Team on FPGA-Accelerated Platform

The FPGA-accelerated POWER8 systems will be used to bring new levels of performance and efficient to new compute offerings.

Intel, Rockchip Offer Two-Chip ARM Platform

The first results of an Intel-Rockchip collaboration in chips for smartphones and tablets has yielded an ARM-based design rather than something based on the Intel Atom processor.

Element14 signs distribution deal with Altium

Distributor to carry Altium's CircuitStudio printed circuit board design software.

Nvidia Tips GPU Accelerator for High Performance Computing

Tesla K80 features a dual-GPU and provides what the company calls a 10 times performance over competing products playing in the same space.

Report: Samsung Wins Back Apple Processor Business

Samsung – with Globalfoundries riding shotgun – has got back in with Apple at the 14nm FinFET node, according to a Korea Times report.

Spansion Rolls Industrial-Grade NAND

New family of devices in 8GB and 16GB densities designed for rugged applications and stringent requirements.

Apple, TSMC and the Seven Customers of 16FF+

TSMC is pushing to accelerate the uptake of its 16FF+ manufacturing process but does that mean the foundry is more or less likely to win or have won next-generation A9 application processor business from Apple?