Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

RS, Allied Ink Global Distribution Deal with Rohm

RS Components and Allied Electronics, business brands of Electro Components, have signed an agreement with Rohm Semiconductor and to be an authorized global distribution partner of the chipmaker.

Chip Equipment Orders Increased in June

Three-month average of orders for semiconductor equipment in June increased 4.3 percent compared to May and 10 percent compared to June 2013, according to SEMI.

Strong Licensing Drives ARM's Q2 Results

A royalty slowdown in first half of the year is over, according to ARM’s CEO as he reports signing up licensees for next-generation cores Artemis and Maia.

TI's Sales Up 8 Percent in Q2

Strong analog and embedded processing semiconductor sales boost chip firm's top and bottom lines.

Toshiba Claims Billion-Dollar Damages From SK Hynix

Toshiba is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from rival NAND flash memory producer SK Hynix over an alleged theft of technology secrets in 2008.

Bosch, Huawei, Xilinx Back ‘Event-Driven’ Processor Firm

Global trio with wide-ranging application interests like the look of real-time, event-driven processor company XMOS and help close $26 million funding round.

Nanoporosity Improves Rice's Silicon Oxide ReRAM

The use of porous silicon oxide for ReRAM device reduces forming voltage, improves storage density and manufacturability, claims a research group at Rice University.

Asia Starts to Push in Touch Controller IC Market

Fabless chip companies from Korea, Taiwan and China are starting an assault on the traditional western hemisphere based leaders in the capacitive touch controller IC market, according to IHS.

Avnet to Carry Deutsch Military Connectors

Expanded distribution agreement allows Avnet to offer customers connectors in sizes ranging from standard density to near double density D38999 styles a greater range of connector options.

Cadence Expands EDA Software Suite for FPGA Prototyping

Expansion of System Development Suite adds Protium, the company’s proprietary rapid prototyping platform, for field programmable gate array software improvement.

Imagination Cuts GPU Down For Wearables

Small area, low-power GPU core targets wearables, IoT and other embedded applications.

Intel Reduces Stake in Imagination

Intel has sold 25 million shares in Imagination and reduced its holding in the graphics core licensor below 6 percent.

TSMC to Fall Behind Rivals in FinFET Market Share

TSMC, currently enjoying record revenues and profits, will lead market share in 20nm foundry supply but will likely fall behind the Samsung, Globalfoundries alliance in FinFET market share in 2015, according to TSMC chairman Morris Chang.

Vishay to Acquire Taiwanese IC Design House

Deal to acquire optoelectronics specialist Capella Microsystems worth $205 million.

Intel Q2 Beats Wall Street Estimates

Record microprocessor shipments help firm increase sales, earnings.

UMC Licenses Embedded Flash IP from Cypress

Pure play foundry licenses chip vendor's 55-nanometer embedded flash memory intellectual property for future IoT and wearable applications.

LG Rollable Display Targets 60-inch UltraHD

LG is on a roll with its R&D into flexible displays and is aiming at a transparent roll out 60-inch screen capable of UltraHD resolution by 2017.

Microchip Expands Instrumentation Amplifier Portfolio

Amp, dubbed MCP6N16, features self-correcting architecture that company claims maximizes DC performance by enabling low offset, low-offset drift and common-mode and power-supply rejection.

Micron Makes 8Gbit DDR3 DRAM

There's still money to be paid supplying high capacity DRAMs to go into high performance servers in data centers so Micron has added a monolithic 8Gbit chip to its portfolio.