Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

ON Semi to Buy Aptina for $400 Million

Cash deal expected to strengthen firm's automotive, industrial offerings.

ADAS Adoption to Spur Increase in Chip Sales

Automobiles are increasingly incorporating advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to increase vehicle safety—and that's good news for the semiconductor industry.

Chip Sales Expected to Grow More Than 6% in 2014

Latest forecasts from WSTS, IHS project broad-based growth for the year.

Microchip Launches USB Power Delivery Controllers

New family of devices capable of delivering 100W of power from a single standard USB port while also being used for data.

Piezoelectric Effect Used to Control Strain in FinFETs

Use of a piezoelectric layer over FinFETs would allow the production of transistors with tunable properties, according to Dutch research team.

AMD Launches 'Kaveri' Mobile APUs

Chips offer as many as 12 cores, bring HSA to mobile for the first time.

Buyers Vary Strategy to Mitigate Counterfeit Risk

The last thing an OEM wants is to have a product fail in the field because of a counterfeit part.

MediaTek Gears Up for Wearables, IoT

MediaTek, best known as supplier of application processors for low-end and China market smartphones, is preparing to use that position to drive success in the wearables and Internet of Things markets.

Researchers Claim World's First 2-D Field Effect Transistor

Lawrence Berkeley National Labs scientists say the FET suffers no performance drop-off under high voltages, unlike conventional FETs made from silicon.

Samsung Pushes Vertical NAND to 32 Layers

3D-NAND pioneer Samsung has pushed the memory technology to 32-layers although the company has not yet revealed the storage capacity of its second-generation vertically-stacked memory.

Synopsys Augments IP Portfolio With New Initiative

No. 2 IP vendor augments portfolio with prototyping kits, software development kits and customized IP subsystems.

ARM to Open Cortex-M CPU Design Center in Taiwan

ARM's first Asian design center for processor cores will focus on the Internet of Things and embedded device markets. ARM has also announced it is acquiring Irish EDA company Duolog.

MediaTek Rolls Quad Core Tablet SoC

Device features full hardware support for the new H.265 video playback standard that and will be integrated into Alcatel’s Pixi 7 and 8 tablet.

PCB Book-To-Bill Remains Positive

North American printed circuit board shipments in April increased 1.6 percent compared to April 2013, but declined 12 percent from March 2014, according to Association Connecting Electronics Industries.

Intel Rolls Connected Car Products

Hardware, software products aimed at providing vehicle manufacturers with the ability to offer a more connected and integrated automobile, and eventually, self-driving capabilities.

Small Systems with Big Functionality for the IoT

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new demands it makes on electronic devices is the underlying force driving SiP’s ascent.

Soitec Partners in China to Produce SOI Wafers

Soitec partnership called first step in building Chinese ecosystem. 300mm wafers not mentioned explicitly but could be key to China's adoption of FDSOI.