Industry News (2012/05/02)

Five companies are linked to Indian fab plan

Published:2012/5/2 21:11:00 Author:Ecco

According to a latest report from Hindu Business Line, five chip companies have expressed an interest in supporting the Indian government’s plan to get one or more semiconductor wafer fabs constructed on the sub-continent. And the five companies are: GlobalFoundries, STMicrolectronics, Russia’s Sitronics JSC and a consortium comprising Jaypee Associates, IBM and Tower Semiconductor Ltd., Infineon Technologies. (View)

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Photomask market is expected to grow to $3.35 billion in 2012 with 7％ rate

Published:2012/5/2 3:25:00 Author:Ecco

The fab tool vendor trade group SEMI expected that the worldwide semiconductor photomask market would grow to $3.35 billion in 2012 with 7 percent growing rate from 2011.According to SEMI data, 2011 was a record year for mask/reticle making equipment, with sales growing 36 percent year-over-year from the previous record year of 2010 to reach $1.11 billion. However, the growth in the (View)

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Power Management is Moving from Static to Dynamic Control

Published:2012/5/2 2:51:00 Author:Li xiao na

Many engineers may not pay much attention to the power design, because they do not necessarily deal with power management issues everyday. Nowadays, the power supply and board power management is becoming more and more important. IBA is short for intermediate but architecture, which is the most advanced power system today. It is composed of bus converters and digital point-of-load converters. Large comp...   (View)

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Pixel Qi will produce a new display to beat iPad display

Published:2012/5/2 0:58:00 Author:Ecco

Pixel Qi Corp. is a professional company which aims to develop reflective liquid crystal displays that can be read in sunlight thereby saving power. The company recently issued a new products introduction. It indicated that the company could produce a screen with higher image quality than the iPad 3 retina screen. The company said t...   (View)

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