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środa, 20 czerwca 2018 13:57

Competition for in-display fingerprint sensor market heating up

Competition in the in-display fingerprint sensor market is heating up as more IC design-houses, smartphone vendors and other companies are jumping into the bandwagon in order to get a bigger share of the growing market, according to Digitimes Research. While IC-design houses including Fingerprint Cards, Goodix, Silead and Synaptics have stepped into the development of in-display sensors, smartphone vendors Apple and Samsung Electronics and flat panel maker Japan Display have also continued to enhance their deployments in the sector, Digitimes Research says. However, current developments of either optical or ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensing solutions are relied on the supply of AMOLED panels from Samsung Display, giving Samsung Electronics an advantage over rival companies in the development of in-display fingerprint sensors. więcej na: www.digitimes.com

środa, 20 czerwca 2018 11:56

North American semiconductor equipment industry posts may 2018 billings

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.70 billion in billings worldwide in May 2018, according to SEMI. The billings figure is 0.6 percent higher than the final April 2018 level of $2.69 billion, and is 19.2 percent higher than the May 2017 billings level of $2.27 billion. “May 2018 monthly global billings of North American equipment manufacturers exceeded last month's level to set yet another record,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Demand for semiconductor equipment remains strong on the back of smart, data-centric applications such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, and edge computing.” więcej na: www.semi.org

środa, 20 czerwca 2018 10:04

Imec furthers high-mobility nanowire FETs for nodes beyond 5nm

imec presented considerable progress in enabling germanium nanowire pFET devices as a practical solution to extend scaling beyond the 5nm node. In a first paper, the research center unveiled an in-depth study of the electrical properties of strained germanium nanowire pFETs. A second paper presents the first demonstration of vertically-stacked gate-all-around highly-strained germanium nanowire pFETs. “With a number of scaling boosters, the industry will be able to extend FinFET technology to the 7- or even 5nm node,” says An Steegen, EVP at imec’s Semiconductor Technology and Systems division. więcej na: www.imec-int.com

środa, 20 czerwca 2018 07:54

Oracle sees sales rise, but earnings outlook disappoints

Oracle eased some concerns about its transition toward becoming more of a subscription-based cloud provider of business software when, on Tuesday, it reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. However, an earnings forecast that fell shy of Wall Street’s expectations sent Oracle’s shares down by as much as 4 percent in after-hours trading. After the stock market closed, Oracle said that it earned 99 cents a share, excluding one-time items, on $11.3 billion in revenue for the quarter that ended May 31. During the same period a year ago, Oracle earned 89 cents a share, on sales of $10.9 billion. Oracle’s results topped the estimates of Wall Street analysts, who had forecast the company to earn 94 cents a share on $11.18 billion in revenue. więcej na: www.siliconvalley.com

wtorek, 19 czerwca 2018 20:07

Lightwave Logic buys Brazilian IP

Lightwave Logic has bought the polymer technology intellectual property assets of BrPhotonics Productos Optoelectrónicos of Brazil. The acquisition advances Lightwave Logic’s patent portfolio of electro-optic polymer technology with 15 polymer chemistry materials, devices, packaging and subsystems patents. It further strengthens the company’s design capabilities as it prepares to enter the 400Gbps integrated photonics marketplace. BrPhotonics’ intellectual property patent portfolio dovetails with Lightwave Logic’s development of 50Gbps packaged modulators as part of its P2IC platform to address 400Gbps datacenter and high-performance computing opportunities. więcej na: www.electronicsweekly.com

wtorek, 19 czerwca 2018 17:53

Trump told Apple CEO iPhones will be spared from China tariffs

President Donald Trump told Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook that the U.S. government would not levy tariffs on iPhones assembled in China, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing a source familiar with the negotiations. The newspaper reported that Cook traveled to the White House last month to warn Trump of the potentially adverse effects of Trump’s trade policies on Apple in China but did not specify precisely when Trump made the commitment to Cook. Apple and the White House were not immediately available for comment. A list of tariffs proposed in April largely excluded consumer electronics. But last week, Trump unveiled a revised list that included several categories of chips, raising fears that tariffs could impact the U.S. technology sector. więcej na: www.reuters.com