Samsung saw Q2 semiconductor profit fall 56% y-o-y and 31% q-o-q to $3.34 billion. Continued losses in the foundry business, delays in delivering HBM, weak NAND prices and US restrictions on sales to China all contributed to the fall. Operating margin was 4.4% its lowest in 15 years. It is estimated that Samsung lost around $3 billion in its foundry ...
May chip sales were up 19.8% y-o-y at $59 billion compared to the $49.2 billion of May 2024 and up 3.5% on the $57 billion of April 2025, says the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales remained strong in May, edging above the previous month’s total and remaining well ahead of sales from the same month last year,” said SIA CEaom John ...
Automotive camera module revenue reached almost $6 billion in 2024 and is forecast to climb to $8.7 billion by 2030, reflecting a 6.6% CAGR, says Yole, volume growth is even steeper, with shipments set to rise to more than 400 million units over the same period with an 8.1% CAGR. Smart front ADAS cameras remain the highest-value segment, while satellite ...
UNTIL now the piezomagnetic transducer has offered a much higher efficiency than the piezoelectric in most applications. So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition if October 19 1960 The story continues: The recent announcement by Bell Telephone Laboratories of materials with up to four times as great an activity as quartz may well mean a much ...
Anglia Components has signed a franchise agreement with Winslow Adaptics, the UK-based designer and manufacturer of IC sockets, adapters and semiconductor hardware. The product range includes fully customised adapters for obsolescence management, test and development tools and many industry-standard interconnect devices. “Winslow are leaders in their field,” says Anglia’s technical director David Pearson, “they have achieved this position by being ...
It always looked inevitable that the semiconductor industry would end up having one leading edge logic fab. The problem is if you don’t make money from one generation you haven’t got enough money to invest in a fab for the next generation, which is why so many companies have become fabless over time. Back in the 1980s companies like IDT, ...
Google’s datacentres used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity, up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020, says the company’s sustainability report. In 2007, Google set a goal to be carbon neutral in 2023 which has been revised to 2030. In order to achieve this goal, the company has been investing in a range of energy sources, including geothermal, nuclear and renewables ...
Kyocera has brought out a line of integrated thin film (ITF) hybrid couplers for high-frequency wireless systems in industrial, automotive, telecommunications, and telemetry applications. Hybrid couplers are special four-port directional couplers that split input signals into two equal-amplitude 3dB outputs whose phases are shifted by 90°. Many also support performance monitoring and inject signals without interrupting the original signal. The ...
The substrate market will be worth $31 billion by 2030 driven by AI and HPC, says Yole, spanning Advanced IC Substrates (AICS), Glass Core Substrates (GCS), Substrate-like PCB (SLP), and Embedded Die (ED) technologies. The AICS market reached $14.2 billion in 2024growing 1% y-o-y; GCS is coming closer to commercialisation with strategic investments and pilot lines set up globally; SLP ...
The over-build of mature node capacity and consequent foundry utilisation rates of 70-75% present an opportunity to secure future fab capacity at advantageous rates, Ed confides to his diary, and I have set u a fund to do it. My strategy is to get every UK semiconductor company, design house, university, R&D institute, startup, individual designer or student to come ...
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