Semiconductors

SEMI and EDA Industry Leaders Unite to Combat Software Piracy

SEMI, Cadence, Mentor, a Siemens Business, and Synopsys today announced plans to jointly develop an industry-standard protocol to combat electronic design automation (EDA) software piracy, a growing and costly problem for software vendors and their users.

Renesas Collaborates with Novatek Microelectronics on Surveillance Camera Reference Design

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced an ultra-high-definition (UHD) surveillance camera reference design to address today’s high-accuracy object detection and recognition needs for video security and surveillance systems.

Scientists Discover New Class of Semiconducting Entropy-Stabilized Materials

Semiconductors are important materials in numerous functional applications such as digital and analog electronics, solar cells, LEDs, and lasers. Semiconducting alloys are particularly useful for these applications since their properties can be engineered by tuning the mixing ratio or the alloy ingredients.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Appoints David Reeder as Chief Financial Officer

David will draw on his more than 20 years of global financial and executive management experience with public and private companies to support GF’s growth and continued success as the world’s leading specialty foundry as well as accelerate the company’s journey to IPO.

Greg Lang Joins Rambus Board of Directors

Rambus Inc., a premier silicon IP and chip provider dedicated to delivering data faster and safer, today announced the appointment of Greg Lang to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Physicists Find Misaligned Carbon Sheets Yield Unparalleled Properties

A material composed of two one-atom-thick layers of carbon has grabbed the attention of physicists worldwide for its intriguing — and potentially exploitable — conductive properties.

Busch Vacuum Solutions Awarded as Germany’s Top Family Business 2020 by the German Business Magazine Wirtschaftswoche

Busch Vacuum Solutions has been awarded by Wirtschaftswoche as one of Germany’s top family companies 2020. Germany’s leading business magazine presents this award to the 50 most visible, innovative and popular medium-sized companies. These companies with a turnover of 250 million to one billion Euro represent an important cornerstone of the German economy.

Using Protons to Tune Interlayer Forces in Van-der-Waals Materials

A Chinese-Australian collaboration has demonstrated for the first time that interlayer coupling in a van der Waals (vdW) material can be largely modulated by a protonic gate, which inject protons to devices from an ionic solid.

Keep Safe and Cool in the Pool: Novel Chip Sensor Makes Swimming Pools Safer

A new microchip that enables continuous monitoring of pH and chlorine levels in swimming pools will vastly improve water safety and hygiene for more than 2.7 million Australians as new research shows it can deliver consistent and accurate pool chemistry for reliable pool management.

Spin Memory Announces Extension of Series B Funding

Spin Memory, Inc. (Spin Memory), the leading developer of MRAM technologies, announced an extension of its Series B funding round, having received additional investment from all major investors. The funding includes recent investors, Arm, Applied Ventures, LLC (the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc.) and Abies Ventures (Abies), as well as the company’s founding investor, Allied Minds.

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