Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has developed a trench-type silicon-carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) with a unique electric-field-limiting structure for a power semiconductor device that achieves a world-leading specific on-resistance of 1.84 mΩ (milliohms) cm2 and a breakdown voltage of over 1,500 V.
Gartner Says Global Device Shipments Will Decline 3.7% in 2019
Worldwide shipments of devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — will decline 3.7% in 2019, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Gartner estimates there are more than 5 billion mobile phones used around the world. After years of growth, the worldwide smartphone market has reached a tipping point. Sales of smartphones will decline by 3.2% in 2019, which would be the worst decline the category has seen.
MEMS & Sensors Executive Congress Technology Showcase Finalists Highlight Innovations in Automotive, Biomedical and Consumer Electronics
Highlighting the world’s first DNA search engine, 4D LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, wearable biosensors for healthcare and other innovations, MEMS & Sensors Industry Group, a SEMI Strategic Association Partner, today announced Technology Showcase finalists for the 15thannual MEMS & Sensors Executive Congress (MSEC), October 22-24, 2019 at Coronado Island Marriott Resort & Spa in Coronado, Calif.
Total Wafer Shipments to Drop 6 Percent in 2019, Resume Growth in 2020, Set New High in 2022
Total wafer shipments in 2019 are expected to decline 6 percent from last year’s historic high, with growth resuming in 2020 and shipments reaching a new high in 2022, according to SEMI’s recent semiconductor industry annual silicon shipment forecast. ecast demand for silicon units through 2022 shows polished and epitaxial silicon shipments totaling 11,757 million square inches in 2019, 11,977 million square inches in 2020, 12,390 million square inches in 2021, and 12,785 million square inches in 2022.
CCNY Physicists Score Double Hit in LED Research
In two breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, City College of New York graduate researchers are reporting the successful demonstration of an LED (light-emitting diode) based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials. This is also the first successful test of an electrically driven light emitter using atomically thin semiconductors embedded in a light trapping structure (optical cavity).
Plessey Launches a MicroLED Direct-Drive Display Platform
Plessey, an embedded technologies developer at the forefront of microLED technology for augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) display applications has introduced a microLED Direct-Drive display platform and development kit, based on its proprietary monolithic GaN-on-Silicon technology. Plessey’s Direct-Drive displays provide OEM’s and product developers with a solution to retrofit current products or develop new concept designs, around a compact, flexible and highly efficient microLED display.
Synopsys and TSMC Collaborate for Certification on 5nm Process Technologies to Address Next-generation HPC, Mobile Design Requirements
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has achieved certification for dozens of new, innovative features to the Synopsys Digital and Custom Design Platforms on TSMC’s most advanced 5nm process technology, required for high-performance computing (HPC) and mobile chip designs. In addition to certification of HPC and mobile design flows, Synopsys has also achieved the certification for its design tools on TSMC’s industry-leading N5P and N6 process technologies, enabling early customer design work.
Renesas Electronics and StradVision Collaborate on Smart Camera Development for Next-Generation ADAS
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and StradVision, Inc., a vision processing technology solutions provider for autonomous vehicles with expertise in deep learning, today announced the joint development of a deep learning-based object recognition solution for smart cameras used in next-generation advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) applications and cameras for ADAS Level 2 and above.
Lam Research Announces New Technology Center in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Korean government officials from the Gyeonggi-do province and executives at Lam Research Corporation (Nasdaq: LRCX), a global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry, both signed a memo of understanding (MOU) to establish the Korea Technology Center (KTC), a research and development facility with a focus on key equipment for semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Light In a New Light
In a paper published today in Nature’s NPJ Quantum Information, Omar Magaña-Loaiza, assistant professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Physics & Astronomy, and his team of researchers describe a noteworthy step forward in the quantum manipulation and control of light, which has far-reaching quantum technology applications in imaging, simulation, metrology, computation, communication, and cryptography, among other areas.
