-
Nov. 18, 2021 -
Big gains in artificial intelligence, machine learning, 5G infrastructure provide strong boost to sales growth at AMD, MediaTek, Nvidia, and Qualcomm this year; declines for Intel and Sony.
-
Oct. 06, 2021 -
NeuroBlade, the next generation of data acceleration solutions, announced today that it has secured $83 million in Series B funding, bringing total invested capital to $110 million.
-
Sep. 20, 2021 -
In view of the ongoing production capacity shortage in the semiconductor industry and the resultant price hike of chips, revenue of the top 10 IC design companies for 2Q21 reached US$29.8 billion, a 60.8% YoY increase
-
Aug. 26, 2021 -
EDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in standards development for the microelectronics industry, today announced the publication of JESD233: XFM Embedded and Removable Memory Device (XFMD) standard. XFMD (XFM stands for Crossover Flash Memory) is a new universal data storage media ...
-
Aug. 20, 2021 -
Driven by surging demand and rising prices for DRAM and flash memory, Samsung, the world’s largest memory supplier, saw its total semiconductor sales increase 19% in 2Q21 to $20.3 billion, moving it past Intel and into first place to become the world’s largest semiconductor supplier for 2Q21.
-
May. 31, 2021 -
The ranking of foundries by revenue for 1Q21 shows that TSMC maintained its first place position with a quarterly revenue of US$12.9 billion, a 2% increase QoQ. TSMC’s main revenue drivers have been its 7nm and 16/12nm nodes.
-
May. 25, 2021 -
In total, the top-15 semiconductor companies’ sales surged by 21% in 1Q21 compared to 1Q20, three points greater than the total worldwide semiconductor industry 1Q21/1Q20 increase of 18%. Fourteen of the top-15 companies had semiconductor sales of at least $3.0 billion in 1Q21
-
May. 25, 2021 -
Over the past 12 months digital experiences have never been more important, with our personal devices connecting us to family and friends, our home devices helping us stay entertained, and business devices giving us the opportunity to work anywhere, any time.
-
May. 24, 2021 -
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the new Cadence® Spectre® FX Simulator, a next-generation FastSPICE circuit simulator that enables the efficient verification of memory and large-scale system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
-
Apr. 19, 2021 -
Expedera Inc., emerging from stealth, today announced the availability of its Origin neural engine, the industry’s fastest and most energy-efficient AI inference IP for edge systems. The silicon-proven deep-learning accelerator (DLA) provides up to 18 TOPS/W at 7nm—up to ten times more than competitive ...
-
Apr. 15, 2021 -
In 2018, Arm had recently announced Arm Neoverse, our first set of platforms and technologies specifically tailored to the needs of cloud-to-edge infrastructure. Shortly after, the first 5G services came online in a few select markets, and NVIDIA announced it was making its full stack of AI and HPC ...
-
Apr. 12, 2021 -
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $466.2 billion in 2020, an increase of 10.4% from 2019, according to final results by Gartner, Inc.
-
Mar. 31, 2021 -
Armv9 is the first new Arm architecture in a decade, building on the success of Armv8 which today drives the best performance-per-watt everywhere computing happens.
-
Mar. 25, 2021 -
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 1H20 seemed at first poised to devastate the IC design industry. However, as WFH and distance education became the norm, TrendForce finds that the demand for notebook computers and networking products also spiked in response, in turn driving manufacturers to ...
-
Mar. 17, 2021 -
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the next-generation Cadence® Sigrity X signal and power integrity (SI/PI) solutions. Sigrity X features powerful new simulation engines for system-level analysis and includes the innovative massively distributed architecture of the flagship ...
-
Mar. 12, 2021 -
The Open RF Association (OpenRF™) and the MIPI Alliance today announced their execution of a Cooperation Framework (Liaison) Agreement which allows the two organizations to engage in joint collaborative projects relating to radio frequency (RF) front-end architecture, design, and technology.
-
Feb. 01, 2021 -
Each of the top-10 growing IC product categories is expected to see a double-digit increase in sales, but only the top-five segments are forecast to grow faster than the total IC market, which IC Insights projects will rise 12% this year.
-
Jan. 20, 2021 -
Intel stays on top of research and development ranking, but its share of total industry R&D expenditures dipped after its spending decreased 4% in 2020. AMD moved into the R&D top 10, says new report.
-
Jan. 18, 2021 -
DCD-Semi, Subsidiary of DCD, a leading system-on-chip (soc) design house and Intellectual Property (IP) core provider of Cryptography, CPU, and peripherals expands sales & marketing channels in the Americas and Greece with EBBM, Inc.
-
Jan. 14, 2021 -
Following a decline of 12% in 2019, worldwide semiconductor revenue rebounded in 2020 to total $449.8 billion, an increase of 7.3% from 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.
-
Jan. 13, 2021 -
Five big acquisition announcements and more than a dozen smaller deals in 2020 pushed the total value of M&A agreements in the year to an all-time high of $118.0 billion, surpassing the previous record of $107.7 billion reached in 2015
-
Dec. 29, 2020 -
Global foundry revenue is expected to reach US$84.6 billion in 2020 by undergoing a 23.7% YoY growth, which is the highest % growth in nearly 10 years
-
Nov. 24, 2020 -
Seven top-15 semiconductor suppliers forecast to show ≥22% growth this year with Nvidia expected to post a huge 50% increase.
-
Nov. 18, 2020 -
Global foundry revenue is projected to undergo a 23.8% increase YoY in 2020, the highest percentage in 10 years.
-
Sep. 17, 2020 -
The acquisition, which is expected to take 18 months to complete (around March 2022), would top Avago’s 2015 deal to buy Broadcom for $37 billion, and SoftBank’s $32 billion purchase of ARM in 2016.
-
Sep. 16, 2020 -
The MIPI Alliance today announced the availability of MIPI A-PHY v1.0, the first industry-standard, long-reach serializer-deserializer (SerDes) physical layer interface.
-
Aug. 31, 2020 -
Broadcom was able to capture number one position by surpassing Qualcomm in quarterly revenue. Despite strong demand for 5G products driven by WFH and distance education needs, Qualcomm’s upward momentum in 2Q20 was constrained due to the delayed release of Apple’s latest iPhones.
-
Aug. 24, 2020 -
On August 17, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the latest revisions to its Entity List, which now includes 38 additional Huawei subsidiaries. Suppliers are prohibited from providing semiconductor products and components manufactured with U.S. equipment and software to Huawei and its subsidiaries. ...
-
Aug. 20, 2020 -
Today, prpl Foundation announced the release 1.0 of its prplWRT software stack. prplWRT builds on the long standing OpenWrt stack, adding support for features required by service providers while leveraging open standards to unify low-level APIs.
-
Jul. 17, 2020 -
-
Jun. 11, 2020 -
According to the 1Q20 revenue ranking of global top 10 IC design companies compiled from TrendForce’s latest data, Qualcomm was able to stop the trend of continuous YoY revenue declines, which lasted for the six previous consecutive quarters, because of its effective 5G product strategy and the considerable ...
-
Jun. 11, 2020 -
The combined revenues of the top 10 foundries increased by more than 20% YoY in 2Q20.
-
Jun. 08, 2020 -
Six companies expecting an increase in 2Q sales; 15 anticipating a decline or flat sales.
-
May. 19, 2020 -
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that the new release of the Cadence® digital full flow—proven with hundreds of completed advanced-node tapeouts—has been enhanced to further optimize power, performance and area (PPA) results across a variety of application areas including ...
-
May. 07, 2020 -
Imagination Technologies and BAIC Group Industrial Investment Co., Ltd. (BAIC Capital), signed a joint venture agreement to initiate the establishment of an industry-leading automotive fabless semiconductor company.
-
Mar. 23, 2020 -
Under the combined influence of the U.S. Entity List and the COVID-19 pandemic, the IC design industry is unlikely to return to growth in 2020.
-
Mar. 17, 2020 -
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that the new release of the Cadence® digital full flow—proven with hundreds of completed advanced-node tapeouts—has been enhanced to further optimize power, performance and area (PPA) results across a variety of application areas including ...
-
Dec. 13, 2019 -
The newest analysis from TrendForce shows that several U.S.-based IC design companies experienced continually expanding losses in 3Q19 revenue because of the ongoing China-U.S. trade war and because Huawei had yet to be removed from the Entity List. Of the U.S.-based companies, Qualcomm demonstrated ...
-
Nov. 18, 2019 -
In total, the top-15 semiconductor companies’ sales are forecast to drop by 15% in 2019 compared to 2018, two points lower than the expected total worldwide semiconductor industry decline of 13%.
-
Oct. 29, 2019 -
HAPS-80 is deployed at more than 100 companies worldwide, including nine of the top 10 semiconductor companies, to accelerate software development and system validation across a wide range of consumer, wired and wireless communications, industrial, AI, and computing/storage applications.