Onto Innovation Announces First Customer Qualification of New Aspect IRCD System

Onto Innovation Inc. today announced the first customer acceptance and purchase of its new product, the Aspect System, at one of the top three memory manufacturers of leading-edge 3D-NAND devices.

North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts November 2020 Billings

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.61 billion in billings worldwide in November 2020 (three-month average basis), according to the November Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI.

No Security, No Safety

In a new webinar, Winbond’s Hung-Wei Chen provided an overview of today’s top cybersecurity threats and regulations, and detailed the company’s TrustME solutions for flash memory.

Synaptics Expands into Low Power Edge AI Applications with New Katana Platform

Synaptics Incorporated, today announced the Katana Edge AI platform, addressing a growing industry gap for solutions that enable battery powered devices for consumer and industrial IoT markets.

France Awards Soitec-led European Consortium for Semiconductor Innovation

The French Government has granted the REFERENCE consortium led by Soitec, a world leader in semiconductor materials based in France, the “Étoile de l’Europe” (“Star of Europe”) award for innovation in telecommunication.

Aspinity Releases Analog Voice-First Evaluation Kit for Battery-Operated Devices

Aspinity, a pioneer in ultra-low-power analog machine learning processors, launched its Voice-First Evaluation Kit (EVK2), a complete hardware/software development kit that demonstrates Aspinity’s ultra-low-power edge processing solution for analog voice activity detection and preroll.

MagnaChip Introduces First Power Management IC for Laptops with UHD Display Panels

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, announced today a new line of power management integrated circuits (PMIC) by introducing its first UHD display panel PMIC for laptops.

CEA-Leti Scientists Present In-Memory Computing Pathways for Edge-AI & Neural Networks with 3D Architectures & Resistive-RAM

CEA-Leti presented two papers this week at IEDM 2020 that confirm the advantages of combining 3D architectures and resistive-random-access-memories (RRAM) for in-memory computing (IMC), and their applications for Edge-AI and neural networks.

Semiconductor Manufacturing in the U.S.

In the middle of an ongoing pandemic and global trade war, the U.S. is looking to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing capabilities.

Partially Hindered by the Pandemic, the MEMS Industry Could Emerge Stronger

Expect mixed effects in the 2020 MEMS market, followed by growth in the longer term.