PARIS — China’s growing presence in M&A negotiations for U.S. chip companies is this year’s one of the biggest untold business stories, and probably 2017, too. China’s voracious appetite for the access to memory technologies (and her plans to locally produce memory chips) has yet to be satisfied. China’s memory chip production plans, although still…
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BANNOCKBURN, IL — Executives and staff at a San Francisco Bay Area manufacturing facility held a town hall discussion with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) on the federal policy issues facing the manufacturing industry under the Trump Administration. Rep. Khanna took a tour of IPC-member company TTM Technologies, Inc. (“TTM”), getting a first-hand look at the…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the Cree XLamp MHB-B LEDs. These new high-power LEDs enable designers to more effectively deliver lower system costs for high-lumen, high-efficiency applications designed to meet the new DesignLights Consortium (DLC) 4.0 Premium…
DetailsAccording to the new research report “3D IC and 2.5D IC Packaging Market by Application (Logic, Imaging & Optoelectronics, Memory, MEMS/Sensors, LED, Power), Packaging Technology (3D Wafer-Level Chip-Scale Packaging, 3D TSV, 2.5D), End-User Industry, and Region – Global Forecast to 2022”, published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is expected to be worth USD 170.46 Billion by 2022, at a…
DetailsAs a practical low-cost alternative for pluggable modules, the market for AOCs has now moved beyond HPC clusters and Ethernet applications now dominate unit shipments whether connecting servers to switches or between switches. Mega datacenter builders have discovered the economics of deploying AOCs within equipment rows. LightCounting thinks the future for AOCs is bright with…
DetailsKey Transaction Highlights: Acquisition promotes further growth in sensor and actuator products, an important part of TDK’s strategic growth plan, and will strengthen TDK’s position as a stronger global player for sensor solutions. Transaction brings together more complete portfolio of sensor and software solutions spanning inertial, pressure, microphone and ultrasonic wave sensor products and technologies…
DetailsThe driverless supply chain is coming. It is no longer a question of if, but rather when. Autonomous cars are already starting to hit the road with Uber recently introducing a fleet of 100 driverless Volvo SUVs in Pittsburgh, PA. Though this implementation will have a driver behind the wheel in case of emergency, the…
DetailsWhen it’s completed in 2030, the Square Kilometer Array will be the largest telescope ever built — and will capture 35,000 DVDs of data every second. When astronomers showed off an early iteration in July 2016, they pointed it at a moon-size section of sky. What did they find? Nearly 1,300 previously unknown galaxies. Supply…
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My stomach has been hurting on and off all week. I feel like I’m getting dragged into something that doesn’t feel good. I don’t mind writing about politics, but recently I feel like I am getting asked to write about weird situations that defy clear description. Specifically, I need to say something about the President-elect…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the nRF52840 Preview Development Kit (nRF52840-PDK) from Nordic Semiconductor. The nRF52840-PDK is a versatile single board development kit for evaluating the nRF52840 system-on-chip (SoC), a proprietary wireless connectivity solution that supports several protocols, including the…
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