Lyon, France – The power packaging market is growing, pulled by the interconnection and substrate segments, respectively +14% and +13% between 2014 and 2020. And global growth for raw material is expected to reach +12% between 2014 and 2020, with a global market of $1.7B for 2020… After Status of the Power Electronics report (March 2015), Yole Développement…
DetailsTotal top 10 market share of semiconductor industry now back over 50%. IC Insights will release its April Update to the 2015 McClean Report later this month. The Update includes the final 2014 company sales rankings for the top 50 semiconductor and top 50 IC companies, and the leading IC foundries. Also included are 2014 IC company sales rankings for various…
DetailsSAN JOSE, Calif. — On April 19, 1965, Electronics magazine published a paper in which Gordon Moore made a stunning observation: About every two years, engineers should be able to cram twice as many transistors into the same area of a silicon chip. Over the next 50 years, engineers more or less managed to maintain…
DetailsFort Worth, Tex. — The North America torque sensor market report defines and segments the concerned market with analysis and forecast of revenue. This market was valued at $318.4 million in 2014, and is expected to reach $452.0 million by 2019, at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2014 to 2019. Browse through the TOC of North America torque sensor market for an in-depth…
DetailsElectronic component distributors face the same challenges year after year – rising costs, eroding margins, currency fluctuations, and an uncertain economy, which resulted in two consecutive years of flat growth in 2012 and 2013. However, in 2014 market conditions slowly started to recover. There was a gradual improvement in the global economy and some increased…
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Few people know that McGraw-Hill invented the moniker “Electronics” in 1930 for its magazine on that subject. I joined Electronics on its 50th birthday, for which we did a special bound-book history of electronics including Gordon Moore's amazing accomplishments founding Fairchild Semiconductor and later co-founding Intel (with Andy Grove and Robert Noyce,…
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Distributor sales in February according to ECIA were up 3% to January sales in the Americas.
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April 7, 2015 – Global technology leader Laird (LRD: London) today announces the new SR-54 Series Bi-Directional Programmable Controller for Thermoelectric Assemblies (TEAs) with built-in monitoring and control intelligence. Standard off-the-shelf controllers are too complex or do not have basic alarm and control features required to run a TEA effectively. With the new SR-54, Laird…
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Washington—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today applauded the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA-2015), legislation introduced today by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The SIA board…
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As the 50th anniversary of Moore’s law approaches this week, we look back some of our past reporting on Gordon Moore and his historic observation. Here are articles from EE Times' archive: Q&A with Moore after he is named the first ACE lifetime achievement winner: Next 50 years ‘won’t be easy’ Mark Lapedus interviewed Moore…
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