Manufacturing

Gas Sensing Solutions doubles the size of its manufacturing facility and offices in Cumbernauld

Globalfoundries says its 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology has delivered more than $2 billion dollars of client design win revenue with more than 50 client designs. 22FDX claims to offer the industry’s lowest operating voltage, delivering up to 500MHz frequencies at 0.4V. The technology also delivers the integration of RF, transceiver, baseband, processor, and power management components, providing a combination of ...

New DLA certification for manufacturing both hermetically and non-hermetically sealed Flip-Chip microcircuits

TT Electronics buys Precision of Minneapolis, the manufacturer of precision electromagnetic product

GlobalFoundries says its 180nm Ultra High Voltage (180UHV) technology platform has entered volume production

Infineon to build a new €1.6 billion 300mm thin wafer fab in Villach for power semiconductors.

When unobtrusive augmented-reality glasses finally make it into production, intellectual property from UK companies could be doing the heavy lifting. Some perspective Despite the hype behind some famous virtual-reality goggle brands, the problems they have solved are as nothing to those augmented-reality firms are up against. By their enclosed nature, the optics within VR goggles never have to compete with ...

Intel has stirred up the node-naming controversy again with a remark in a submission to the SEC stating  its competitive advantages. Intel stated: “We have a market lead in transitioning to the next-generation process technology and bringing products to market using such technology in Q4 2017.” However 10nm products have not yet  been announced by Intel. For many decades, the ...

Fujian Jin Hua Integrated Circuit is expected to finish moving equipment into its Fujian-based DRAM fab in July allowing trial production to start in September, reports Digitimes. The fab is a jv between the city of Fujian and UMC. The jv has received $5.3 billion  in government funding. It is expected that it will receive $8 billion eventually. China’s other ...

HiSilicon is reported to be having its latest Kirin processor – the 980 – in volume production on TSMC’s 7nm process later this quarter. TSMC’s 7nm process is scheduled to begin volume production in June with Qualcomm, Xilinx and Apple joining HiSilicon as customers. The Kirin 980 is expected to be first used in the Huawei Mate 20 phone coming ...