Teledyne e2v’s CCD image sensor is headed to Mars on NASA’s Perseverance Rover. Its mission? To investigate rock samples on the red planet for past signs of life.
Source: NASA Taps Teledyne CCD Image Sensors to Search for Past Life on Mars – News
A new report paints a picture of a global semiconductor industry that’s already shaking off the worst impacts of the global pandemic and bracing for a rebound in the near future.
Source: Is a Semiconductor Rebound Around the Next Corner? | Source Today
Power electronics has taken an interesting road with the adoption of GaN and SiC. Yole Développement (Yole) estimated a general view of these wide bandgap materials. While silicon is still dominating the market, GaN and SiC devices are already more efficient solutions in some applications. From a development standpoint, SiC research is focused on SiC wafer quality on larger diameters and power module development. In the GaN field, the main trends are on GaN device integration — either system-in-package or system-on-chip solutions.
Premstaetten, Austria (29 July 2020) — ams (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, reports record revenues for the second quarter, up 13% year-on-year and at the mid-point of the expectation range, with strong adjusted operating profitability at the top end of the expectation range. This growth was driven by demand in ams’ consumer business, even with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its macro-economic and end market impact which resulted in muted automotive and industrial demand. Despite these factors ams expects a very good third quarter with revenues of USD 530-570 million and continued strong profitability resulting in an adjusted operating (EBIT) margin of 21-24%.
This article reveals how the global markets for capacitors and resistors reacted to the global pandemic of 2020 and forecasts near term changes in the markets for mass produced components such as capacitors and resistors that are ubiquitous and mission-critical to the high-tech economy.
Source: Capacitors, Resistors and Inductors: Market Update and Review for Q3 2020 | TTI, Inc.
Orlando, FL, January 15, 2020 – Micross is pleased to announce that its Advanced Interconnect Technology operation (Micross AIT) located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina has been accredited by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) as a Microelectronics Trusted Source for Post CMOS Processing Services (Category 1A) effective December 13, 2019.
Growing demand for power supplies, photovoltaic inverters and hybrid and electric car components is helping the power electronics sector achieve critical mass.Omdia, the London-based technology forecaster, discerns a transition occurring in the nascent market for gallium nitride and silicon carbide wide bandgap semiconductors as plucky startups are snapped up by established power IC manufacturers. Hence, it is forecasting the GaN/SiC sector will exceed $1 billion in revenues in 2021.
MILPITAS, Calif. — July 21, 2020 — Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase six percent to $63.2 billion in 2020 compared to $59.6 billion in 2019 before logging record high revenue of $70 billion in 2021 on the strength of double-digit growth, SEMI announced today in releasing its Mid-Year Total Semiconductor Equipment Forecast – OEM Perspective at the annual SEMICON West exposition.
Electronic Component life-cycles—the time between market introduction and formal end-of-life—are shortening. A large part of the world’s semiconductor demand is driven by consumer electronics, and this market typically has shorter and shorter product lives. Component obsolescence is affecting more companies, more regularly than ever before. Manufacturers in the automotive, industrial, medical, transport, aerospace and military markets have product lives which now far exceed those of the components which go to make them.
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) exploit resistive switching property in halide perovskite materials to develop the basis for a new type of fast, low-power, nonvolatile memory. Halide perovskite materials exhibit a resistive switching property, which means that with the application of a voltage, the substance’s resistance will change.
Feb 28, 2020 – Micro-Precision Technologies, Inc., (MPT) a Salem, NH Defense company was acquired by Aerospace Semiconductor, Inc. (ASI) of Lawrence, MA. Going forward the company will operate under the Micro-Precision Technology, Inc. name in Salem, NH with a DBA registered for the Aerospace Semiconductor, Inc. name in Lawrence, MA.
