Articles Tagged with ''semiconductor''

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announces the promotion of Takaki Murata to vice president and general manager of the high performance analog (HPA) business unit.

Microsemi Corp., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced it will feature 15 new products from its radio frequency (RF), millimeter wave integrated circuits (ICs), monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), ultra-low power sub-GHz transceivers and high performance WLAN monolithic radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) portfolio at the 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2016) and Exhibition held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., May 22-27, 2016.

e2v has won a contract with Airbus DS GmbH to design, develop and supply bespoke CMOS image sensors for advanced METimage radiometers for MetOp weather satellites.

GigOptix Inc., a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor communications components for use in Cloud connectivity, data centers, and high-speed optical and wireless networks, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Magnum Semiconductor Inc., a privately-held Milpitas, California-based provider of silicon ICs, SoCs, software, and IP for the professional video broadcast and IoT camera markets, in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $55 million net based upon the average closing price of GigOptix stock for the trailing thirty day period ended April 1, 2016.

STMicroelectronics is now supplying its latest long-range (77 GHz) radar chips to leading automotive customers.

Advancing semiconductor technology, X-FAB Silicon Foundries is putting itself at the vanguard of wideband gap semiconductor production by announcing the availability of its silicon carbide (SiC) offering from its wafer fab in Lubbock, Texas.

Optimal+, a global big data analytics provider for the semiconductor industry, announced that it has collaborated with NI, a leading provider of platform-based test systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, so that the entire suite of solutions from Optimal+ will be supported by NI’s Semiconductor Test System (STS) via the Optimal+ Proxy starting in Q1 2016.

II‐VI Inc., a leader in semiconductor lasers, announced that it signed agreements to acquire EpiWorks Inc. and ANADIGICS Inc. These two businesses that will expand II‐VI's technology platforms and production capacity for semiconductor lasers with a scalable 6‐inch epitaxial growth and wafer fabrication platform.

Altair Semiconductor, a leading provider of LTE chipsets, announced the opening of a research and development (R&D) center in Taiwan to support the company’s technical advancement in the major Asian growth-center.

The merger has created a high performance mixed signal semiconductor industry leader, with combined revenue of over $10 billion. The merged entity will continue operations as NXP Semiconductors N.V. and has become the market leader in automotive semiconductor solutions and in general purpose microcontroller (MCU) products.