El Segundo, Calif. —Led by memory chip sales, global semiconductor revenue increased 5.0 percent in 2013, according to the latest research from IHS Technology. Total semiconductor revenue reached $318.1 billion in 2013, up from $303.1 billion in 2012. Last year’s growth “reversed the disappointing 2.4 percent loss of 2012, when revenue contracted from $310.6 billion in 2011,”…
DetailsARM Holdings PLC said its net profit rose 20 percent in the first quarter while revenue on a dollar basis increased 16 percent on surging demand for its semiconductor IP from a wide range of vendors. The Cambridge, UK-based IP licensing company reported revenue of £186.7 million ($305.2 million) for the first quarter, up from…
DetailsSanmina Corporation (“Sanmina” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ GS: SANM), a leading integrated manufacturing solutions company, today reported financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended March 29, 2014. Second Quarter Fiscal 2014 Summary Revenue of $1.48 billion GAAP operating margin of 3.1 percent GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.24 Non-GAAP(1) operating margin of 3.6…
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Future Electronics Inc. isn’t an enigma. Not by a long shot. Many of the electronics components distributor’s suppliers and customers swear by it because it’s reputed for standing by them through the industry’s notorious boom and bust cycles and for offering design and engineering support critical to breaking into new markets and security design-wins. Others…
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Intel Corp. is in a quandary. The PC sector is flagging, its efforts in mobile communications haven’t paid up quite as expected and the fledging Internet of Things market is still too young to show robust sales. Can the world’s No. 1 semiconductor company find salvation in the foundry business, making custom chips for fabless…
DetailsContour Semiconductor, Inc., a provider dedicated to producing the world’s lowest-cost, high-volume, non-volatile memory chips, today announced that it has appointed veteran semiconductor industry executive Saul Zales as Chief Executive Officer. Zales will lead Contour’s development of next generation non-volatile chips, addressing the $25 billion NAND flash memory market opportunity with a technology that is…
DetailsRambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. GAAP Financial Results: Revenue for the first quarter of 2014 was $78.3 million, up 7% on a sequential basis from the fourth quarter of 2013 primarily due to increased revenue…
DetailsGLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced that Toshiba Corporation will join the company’s GLOBALSOLUTIONS ecosystem of partners. As a worldwide ASIC partner, Toshiba will enable its Fit Fast Structured Array (FFSATM) and ASIC solutions based upon GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ technologies and services for customers across the globe. The agreement includes participation on multi-project wafer (MPW) runs and production wafers covering…
DetailsRS Components ( http://singapore.rs-online.com/web ) (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc( http://www.electrocomponents.com ) (LSE:ECM), the world’s leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has enhanced its passive components offering with the introduction of a range of RS brand Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors ( http://singapore.rs-online.com/web/c/passive-components/capacitors ) (MLCCs) in standard 7″ or 13″ reel quantities.…
DetailsAvnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today released the Industrial MicroZed™ System-on-Module (SOM), the MicroZed Cost-Optimized (CO) SOM and the MicroZed Single Board Computer (SBC). This expands on the existing MicroZed portfolio, which previously consisted of MicroZed 7010 and MicroZed 7020 SOMs, as well as the MicroZed 7010 Evaluation Kit.…
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