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AEM

AEM Opens New 365,000-Square-Foot Manufacturing Plant In Penang

Highlights AEM’s commitment to invest in next-generation manufacturing capacity and test capabilities 

Applied Materials

Applied Materials Launches ‘Singapore 2030’ Plan

Applied Materials Launches ‘Singapore 2030’ Plan to Expand its Operations and Innovation Capabilities Company plans to strengthen its manufacturing capacity, R&D, ecosystem partnerships and workforce development in Singapore Initiative builds upon Applied’s 30-year history in Singapore and will further accelerate commercialization of new semiconductor technologies

Vietnam

Vietnam Business Summit Highlights Semiconductor Growth Opportunities  

Vietnam Business Summit to Highlight Region’s Semiconductor Industry Growth Opportunities  

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AEM To Create Over 300 Additional Jobs

AEM, a global leader in test innovation, has announced its expansion plans.

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Key Foundry Begins Mass Production Of Power Semiconductors Using 0.18 Micron High Voltage BCD Process

The power transfer of a charger IC designed with the previous 60V BCD process can be 100 watts at best, but the transfer can increase up to 240 watts if the charger IC is designed with the 150V BCD process.

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LG To Exit Global Solar Panel Business To Increase Focus On Other Energy-Related Businesses

Going forward, LG will leverage its renewable energy expertise to unlock value for customers in new ways.

Amkor Technology Selects Bac Ninh, Vietnam For Factory Expansion

A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics, Soitec To Develop Silicon Carbide Semiconductors To Power EVs

The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Soitec (Euronext Paris) have announced a research collaboration to develop next-generation silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices to power electric vehicles and advanced high-voltage electronic devices.

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Improving Automation Performance Of Servo Drives

At some point, automation hardware inevitably becomes obsolete. It’s hard to know exactly when to retrofit or redesign, but there are indications that cannot be ignored.

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Making The Most Of Thermal Sensors

Among various types and purposes of thermal sensors, how do engineers determine which is best for a given application and how to correctly apply them?

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Geo Connect Asia 2022: Set To Return With Twice The Size And Capacity

The second edition of Southeast Asia’s flagship geospatial and location intelligence event grows to host fast-developing industry solutions.

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IBM and Samsung Unveil New Vertical Transistor Architecture

The new vertical device architecture demonstrates path to scaling beyond nanosheet, which can enable 85 percent energy reduction compared to scaled finFET transistors.

Global Total Semiconductor Equipment Sales On Track to Top US$100 Billion in 2021 for First Time, says SEMI

Global Total Semiconductor Equipment Sales On Track to Top US$100 Billion in 2021 for First Time, says SEMI

Regionally, China, Korea, and Taiwan are projected to remain the top three destinations for equipment spending in 2021.

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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2022 To Take Place In Penang With Focus On Sustainability And Supply Chain Resilience

Industry leaders from the semiconductor ecosystem to address sustainability challenges and supply chain disruption through green factories and advanced manufacturing systems at SEMICON Southeast Asia 2022.

Michelin

Murata And Michelin Co-Develop RFID Module To Improve Tire Management Operations

Designed and manufactured by Murata, the RFID module is inserted into a simple spring antenna, designed and manufactured by HANA Technologies, thus enabling it to link to the tire ecosystem.

ADLINK

ADLINK Releases Its First SMARC Module Based On Qualcomm QRB5165 Enabling High Performance Robots And Drones At Low Power

The Qualcomm QRB5165 processor, customised for robotics applications, is architected for running complex AI, deep learning workloads, and on-device edge inference efficiently while using lower power.

Annual 6-inch SiC Wafer Demand From EV Market Expected To Reach 1.69 Million Units in 2025

Annual 6-inch SiC Wafer Demand From EV Market Expected To Reach 1.69 Million Units in 2025

Annual 6-inch SiC wafer demand from EV market expected to Reach 1.69 million units in 2025 as 800V charging architecture nears, says TrendForce.

Nexperia Adds High-Performance Silicon Carbide (SiC) Diodes To Its Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Offering

Nexperia Adds High-Performance Silicon Carbide (SiC) Diodes To Its Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Offering

Samples of industrial-grade 650 V, 10 A SiC Schottky diode now available on request with a full product release planned for the second quarter of 2022. Parts with 1200 V / 6-20 A current range and automotive-grade parts also planned.

Amkor Technology Selects Bac Ninh, Vietnam For Factory Expansion

Amkor Technology Selects Bac Ninh, Vietnam For Factory Expansion

Amkor Technology, Inc., one of the world’s largest providers of outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services, announced its plans to build a smart factory in Bac Ninh, Vietnam.

MediaTek

MediaTek Brings Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 Connectivity to IoT Devices

Its new Filogic solutions combine advanced Wi-Fi and Bluetooth features with the latest voice processing and power-management technologies.

First Look At ADLINK’s Embedded MXM Graphics Modules For Edge Computing And AI

First Look At ADLINK’s Embedded MXM Graphics Modules For Edge Computing And AI

ADLINK’s embedded MXM graphics modules are the first modules to use NVIDIA’s embedded GPUs based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture, bringing edge computing and embedded AI to numerous vertical markets including healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and more.

CloudMile Opens New Singapore Facilities To House Growing ML Talent, Establish Regional AI Hub

CloudMile Opens New Singapore Facilities To House Growing ML Talent, Establish Regional AI Hub

The opening ceremony – a hybrid in-person and online event – was attended by DISG, Taiwan’s local Representative Office and Google Cloud.

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Exactly What The Doctor Ordered: Cars That Monitor Their Health And Yours

To make this a reality, thousands of new electronic components are needed to be developed to handle the tremendous amount of information and data that must be collected, analysed, and responded to.

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How The World Ran Out Of Semiconductors

While it is easy to blame the COVID-19 pandemic for this situation, the truth is that the global semiconductor supply chain had this coming for some time.

Alps Alpine Develops Ambient Air Sensor Module Useful For COVID-19 Prevention

Alps Alpine Develops Ambient Air Sensor Module Useful For COVID-19 Prevention

Alps Alpine’s new ambient air sensor module monitors the surrounding environment with high-accuracy sensing of carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature, humidity, and other parameters.

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Singapore’s Automotive Startup Motorist Closes S$1.2 Million Seed Funding

Funds will be deployed to explore growth opportunities in Singapore and Malaysia, and kickstart its expansion into Thailand.

Piaggio Fast Forward Granted New U.S. Patent

Piaggio Fast Forward Granted New U.S. Patent

The company combines in-depth knowledge of the outdoor and indoor built environment with a unique library of behaviors designed through millimeter accurate observation of how people move with one another through the world, from sidewalk etiquette to entering and exiting buildings with one another and beyond.

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ROHM And Geely Automobile Group Form A Strategic Partnership Focused On SiC Power Devices

The partnership aims to accelerate technical innovation in the automotive industry to achieve a sustainable society.

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Ricoh And Kyushu University Jointly Develop A Thin, Light, Bendable Organic Photovoltaic (OPV)

Thin, light, and bendable Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) is suitable for indoor and semi-outdoor environments.

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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2021- Highlights From Minister Gan Kim Yong’s Speech

Powering Innovation –5G And Beyond: Mr Gan Kim Yong’s speech highlights confidence in Singapore’s abilities to be an economy that corporations and business leaders in the Semicon Industry could trust and depend on for growth opportunities that lie ahead.

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Vivo Leads Asia Pacific 5G Shipments In Q2 2021

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Vivo, for the first time ever, is the top 5G smartphone vendor in Asia Pacific in Q2 2021.

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Baidu Launches A “Robocar” And Prepares A Future Between AI And Autonomous Driving

Baidu, Inc., the Chinese Internet giant, is flexing its muscles for the future and proposes itself as a leader in AI and mobility.

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Maxim Integrated’s Trinamic 3-Phase MOSFET Gate Driver Maximises Battery Life And Cuts Component Count By Half

Fully Integrated TMC6140-LA Simplifies Design Of High-Performance Brushless DC Motor Drives And Improves Efficiency By 30 Percent.

MediaTek Announces Dimensity 920 And 810 Chips For 5G Smartphones

MediaTek Announces Dimensity 920 And 810 Chips For 5G Smartphones

Dimensity 920 And Dimensity 810 Chipsets Bring Brilliant Imaging, Smarter Displays And Boosted Performance Together For Incredible Mobile Experiences.

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Hioki Releases Its New Flagship Power Analyzer PW8001 And New AC/DC Current Sensors CT6872, CT6873

Optimised for the Development of Compact, High-efficiency Devices, 8-channel Inputs that Provide World Class Flexibility and Accuracy: The Power Analyzer PW8001 and New AC/DC Current Sensors CT6872 and CT6873.

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OPTIMA Packaging Group Expands Portfolio To Include Fuel Cell Production Lines

The Optima Group has developed machine solutions to increase the production capacity of fuel cells.

POSCO Starts High-Purity Nickel Production For Secondary Batteries

POSCO Starts High-Purity Nickel Production For Secondary Batteries

The investment from POSCO in the facilities of SNNC transforms it into a high purity nickel refining factory and plans to produce 20,000 tons (only nickel contents) per year by 2023.

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Present State And Trends In Applications Of Industrial Robots In Automotive Industry

An Overview Of Industrial Robot Usage In The Automotive Industry, Which Nowadays Is The Most Important Customer Of The Industrial Robotic Market.

Vecow Partners With AI Chipmaker Hailo To Launch Next-generation Edge AI Solution

Vecow Partners With AI Chipmaker Hailo To Launch Next-generation Edge AI Solution

Hailo’s specialised Hailo-8™ AI acceleration module delivers unprecedented performance to edge devices.

Ensuring the Reliability Of Electronic Devices Through Non-Destructive Testing Of Specialty Metals And Materials

Ensuring the Reliability Of Electronic Devices Through Non-Destructive Testing Of Specialty Metals And Materials

Non-destructive advanced scanning acoustic microscopy detects flaws in specialty metals, materials, and packaging of semiconductor devices.

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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2021 Goes Virtual With 5G In Focus

Guest of honour Mr. Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s Minister for Trade and Industry, will kick off the SEMICON SEA 2021 conference, 23-25 August 2021.

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GlobalFoundries Breaks Ground On New Fab In Singapore

Globalfoundries has announced it is expanding its global manufacturing footprint with the construction of a new fab on its Singapore campus.

Infineon Launches Traveo II Body Microcontroller Family

Infineon Launches Traveo II Body Microcontroller Family For Next Generation Vehicle Electronic Systems

As drivetrain electrification and advanced driver assistance systems change the way we drive, the number and complexity of comfort features and other body functions in cars increases constantly. To tackle this challenge, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) is launching the Traveo II Body microcontroller family to the open market. This product family addresses a …

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Infineon Introduces AIROC Wi-Fi 6/6E And Bluetooth 5.2 Combo Family For IoT And Streaming Devices

Infineon Introduces AIROC Wi-Fi 6/6E And Bluetooth 5.2 Combo Family For IoT And Streaming Devices

nfineon Technologies AG is expanding its wireless portfolio of high performance, reliable and secure offerings.

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300mm Fab Spending To Boom Through 2023 With Two Record Highs, SEMI Reports

300mm fab investments in 2020 will grow by 13 per cent year-over-year (YoY) to eclipse the previous record high set in 2018.

Air Products Inks Long-term Contract To Supply World-Leading Memory-chip Maker In Malaysia

Air Products Inks Long-term Contract To Supply World-Leading Memory-chip Maker In Malaysia

Air Products has been awarded a long-term onsite contract from a global leader in memory and storage solutions to supply its state-of-the-art new facility in Penang.

Analog Devices Strengthens Semiconductor Leadership With $21 Billion Acquision Of Maxim Integrated

Analog Devices Strengthens Semiconductor Leadership With $21 Billion Acquision Of Maxim Integrated

Analog Device and Maximhas entered a definitive agreement under which ADI will acquire Maxim in an all-stock transaction that values the combined enterprise at over $68 billion.

STMicroelectronics revealed its partner-led growth strategy for Asia as well as its industrial strategy and strategic thrusts for the coming year.

STMicroelectronics Reveals Partner-Led Growth Strategy For Asia

STMicroelectronics revealed its partner-led growth strategy for Asia as well as its industrial strategy and strategic thrusts for the coming year during a recent online media engagement.

SECORA™ ID S_ Highest Security And Flexibility For Region-Specific Electronic ID Cards And eGovernme

SECORA ID S: Highest Security And Flexibility For Region-Specific Electronic ID Cards And eGovernment Solutions

With SECORA ID, Infineon Technologies AG offers an easy-to-integrate security platform for contactless digital ID documents.

Infineon Delivers Millions Of Chips For Medical Ventilators

Infineon Delivers Millions Of Chips For Medical Ventilators

Infineon Technologies AG is playing a vital role to support the manufacturing of ventilator devices.

CoolSiC MOSFET 650 V Family Offers Best Reliability And Performance To Even More Applications

CoolSiC MOSFET 650 V Family Offers Best Reliability And Performance To Even More Applications

Infineon Technologies AG continues to expand its comprehensive silicon carbide (SiC) product portfolio with 650 V devices.

SMA And Infineon Reduce System Costs For Inverters

SMA And Infineon Reduce System Costs For Inverters

SMA and Infineon are supporting the growing trend of photovoltaic systems with the latest generation of innovative silicon carbide (SiC)-based solar inverters.

How IoT Technology Can Help Semiconductor Firms Address Energy Efficiency

How IoT Technology Can Help Semiconductor Firms Address Energy Efficiency

Monitoring solutions are essentially IoT applications that require lots of sensors. By Nadia Cheraitia, Schneider Electric.

IDC: COVID19 $25.8 Billion Impact On The Worldwide Semiconductor Market

IDC: COVID19 $25.8 Billion Impact On The Worldwide Semiconductor Market

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting China and is spreading within East Asia and into Europe and North America.

Mouser: NXP’s i.MX 8QuadMax And 8QuadPlus Processors For Advanced Multi-Platform Automotive Infotainment

Mouser: NXP’s i.MX 8QuadMax And 8QuadPlus Processors For Advanced Multi-Platform Automotive Infotainment

Mouser Electronics Incorporated is now offering the i.MX 8QuadMax and 8QuadPlus applications processors from NXP Semiconductors.

Samsung Constructs US$220 Million R&D Centre In Vietnam

Samsung Constructs US$220 Million R&D Centre In Vietnam

Samsung Electronics has started on construction of its US$220 million research and development (R&D) centre in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Mouser Electronics Signs Global Distribution Agreement With Zipcores

Mouser Electronics Signs Global Distribution Agreement With Zipcores

Mouser Electronics incorporated has announced a global distribution agreement with Zipcores, designers of intellectual property (IP) cores for implementation on FPGA, ASIC and SoC devices.

Keysight NOEIC And CompoundTek Establish Open Standards For Photonic Integrated Circuit Testing

Keysight, NOEIC And CompoundTek Establish Open Standards For Photonic Integrated Circuit Testing

Keysight Technologies, NOIEC and CompoundTek, will work together to establish layout design standards for automated testing of photonic integrated circuits

Global Semiconductor Equipment Sales Forecast—2020 Rebound, 2021 Record High

Global Semiconductor Equipment Sales Forecast—2020 Rebound, 2021 Record High

Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales will drop 10.5 percent to $57.6 billion in 2019 from last year’s historic peak of $64.4 billion but stage a 2020 recovery and set a new high in 2021.

Mouser Electronics New Product Insider: November 2019

Mouser Electronics New Product Insider: November 2019

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies, giving customers an edge and helping speed time to market.

Mouser’s Horticulture Applications Site Shines Light On LEDs, Sensors, IoT in Plant Growing Operations

Mouser’s Horticulture Applications Site Shines Light On LEDs, Sensors, IoT in Plant Growing Operations

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader empowering innovation, has unveiled its new Horticulture Applications Site on Mouser.com.

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Micron Expands Singapore Facility To Enable Transitions Essential To 5G, AI and Autonomous Transportation

Micron expanded facility provides flexibility in cleanroom space to facilitate technology transitions to advanced nodes of 3D Nand technology.

SESTO Robotics, a leading Singapore robotics company that aims to advance the adoption of smart manufacturing processes will be heading to SEMICON 2019

SESTO Robotics Showcases Autonomous Mobile Robots, Vehicles

SESTO Robotics headed down to SEMICON Southeast Asia (SEMICON SEA) 2019 for its fourth consecutive year from 7 to 9 May 2019.

Smart factories are fast becoming mainstream in the manufacturing industry, offering a new level of efficiency and productivity.

Fully-Fledged Smart Factory To Be Unveiled At SEMICON Southeast Asia 2019

Smart factories are fast becoming mainstream in the manufacturing industry, offering a new level of efficiency and productivity.

Mouser Electronics Incorporated, NPI leader empowering innovation has stocked the i.MX 8M Mini applications processors from NXP Semiconductors.

NXP i.MX 8M Mini Processors For Edge Computing And Machine Learning

Mouser Electronics Incorporated, the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader empowering innovation has stocked the i.MX 8M Mini applications processors from NXP Semiconductors.

We have seen an evolution in the range of our products from many years ago. From DRAMs, SRAMs, and so forth, we have become more focused ...

Of Power, Smart City And Sustainability

We have seen an evolution in the range of our products from many years ago. From DRAMs, SRAMs, and so forth, we have become more focused …

How Cooperation And Trade Associations Push The Semiconductor Industry Forward

How Cooperation And Trade Associations Push The Semiconductor Industry Forward

The semiconductor industry is big – estimated to top US$339 billion in annual sales in 2017. What is more, many of the players that dominate semiconductor design and fabrication are also large. That is because building a state-of-the-art wafer fab today is an expensive proposition. Pure-play foundry TSMC, for instance, is spending US$3 billion for a wafer fab in Nanjing, China that will make chips using a 16-nanometer technology starting in the second half of 2018, according to the analysts at IC Insights. To take on projects of that size, a company typically must be large and have economies of scale.

Cadence Appoints Anirudh Devgan As President

Cadence Appoints Anirudh Devgan As President

Cadence Design Systems has announced that Anirudh Devgan, executive VP and GM of the Digital & Signoff Group and the System & Verification Group, has been appointed the president of Cadence, effective immediately.

Taiwan Largest Semiconductor Materials Market

Taiwan Largest Semiconductor Materials Market

Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwan is the world’s largest consumer of semiconductor materials for the seventh consecutive year, bringing new opportunities in this increasingly critical sector.

Selecting RF Discretes: Diodes And Transistors For An ‘Always Connected’ World

Selecting RF Discretes: Diodes And Transistors For An ‘Always Connected’ World

The rise of IoT has enabled a greater demand for low-power efficient semiconductor components. By Claudia Mosca, Infineon Technologies

An Introduction To Plug-And-Play Motion Subsystems

An Introduction To Plug-And-Play Motion Subsystems

Embedding mechanical motion subsystems into machines improves performance and reduces cost.