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This year’s market, worth $36.9 billion, will be split: Wafer Processing $29.33 billion +1.9% Test $3.36 billion +o.9% Assembly & Test $2.39 billion -5% Other Front End $1.86 billion -2.1% This year’s market will be split by region: Taiwan $9.46 billion -1.8% y-o-y China $6.41 billion. +30.8% y-o-y Korea $6.17 billion -17.3% y-o-y Japan 5.08 billion -7.6% y-oy USA $4.62 billion -9.8% y-o-y ROW $3.13 billion +58.9% y-o-y Europe $2.07 +6.2%...

What is Sensor technology sensor is kind of transducer; sensors may provide various types of output, but typically use electrical or optical signals. For example, a thermocouple generates a known voltage (the output) in response to its temperature (the environment). A sensor is a device that detects and responds to...

Birlasoft recognizes IoT as a driving force in manufacturing industries to maximize plant performance, increase manufacturing execution efficiencies, improve quality and quantity of plant output, and drastically reduce cost of plant maintenance.  The ROMO solution is built to capture machine-generated data from sensors in reverse osmosis (RO) plants, to provide real-time, unprecedented, smart analytics to the plant operations manager, in the form of improved,...

Moxa’s newly launched UC-8100-ME-T series is a 4G LTE-enabled edge- computing solution designed for IIoT applications. The UC-8100-ME-T is built around an ARM Cortex -A8 1 GHz processor and comes with two RS-232/422/485 serial ports and dual 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN ports, as well as a Mini PCIe socket to support 3G/4G LTE cellular modules. 4G LTE networks’ connectivity speeds...

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced that General Motors (GM) is using Microchip’s Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) Intelligent Network Interface Controllers (INICs) to manage the infotainment system networking functions in their global compact car platform. This includes the Chevy Cruze, Chevy Volt, Opel Astra, Buick Excelle and...

On July 7th, Seoul Semiconductor announced that it has successfully revoked Japanese lens maker Enplas’s LED lens patent in Taiwan, adding to a string of legal victories against Enplas in the United States, Korea, and Europe.  As a result of Seoul’s challenge, Enplas’s patent has been revoked in Taiwan. Since patent litigation between the two companies began, Seoul has pursued...

Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd of Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan has developed what is claimed to be the first 1.2kV-class power semiconductor device chip capable of large-current operation exceeding 20A. Using gallium nitride (GaN) crystal growth technology developed since 1986 for the production of blue LEDs, Toyoda Gosei began research on GaN-based power semiconductor devices in 2010. Previously, low-loss 1.2kV-class MOSFETs...

Samsung Electronics has come up with world’s first removable memory cards based on the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard, for use in high-resolution mobile shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones. This cards comes with a wide range of storage capacities including 256, 128, 64 and 32 gigabyte (GB), Samsung's...

Anritsu extended its Signal Analyzer MS2840A product line by adding three new frequency models (3.6 GHz, 6 GHz, and 26.5 GHz) to its current 44.5-GHz model supporting excellent narrowband measurement performance in a middle-range signal analyzer/spectrum analyzer platform. With a dedicated low phase noise option, the 3.6-GHz and 6-GHz models have excellent close-in SSB phase noise performance that exceeds...

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking Hexiwear wearable platform products from MikroElektronika. Completely open source and developed in partnership with NXP, the Hexiwear device incorporates a low-power NXP Kinetis K64microcontroller, Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) and wireless connectivity, and six onboard sensors into a compact wearable form factor for developers who need a complete Internet of Things (IoT) toolkit. With Hexiwear's...