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Q2 semiconductor industry sales of $149.9 billion were up 18.3% y-o-y and up 6.5% on Q1, says the SIA, and June sales were $50 billion, up 1.7% on May’s $49.1 billion. “The global semiconductor market remained strong during the second quarter of 2024, with quarter-to-quarter sales increasing for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2021,” says SIA CEO ...

Eleven more UK semiconductor startups have joined the government backed incubator programme ChipStart. They are: Apitronix Semiconductor Chevin Technology HeronIC KuasaSemi Metahelios Nanomation PhovIR Technologies POM Health Qontrol Rigpa Visionchip The initial group of ChipStart participants raised over £10 million in funding from private investors and grants, and have nearly £20 million in commitments currently being finalised. The ChipStart incubator ...

Eight year-old waferscale AI chip developer, Cerebras Systems, has confidentially filed for an IPO, reports Reuters. The company is reported to be looking for a valuation of around $4 billion – the valuation at which its 2021 funding round was made. According to Reuters, a confidential filing is often pursued when postponing financial disclosure is seen as desirable. The third ...

San Francisco-based Particle has announced an octa-core Raspberry-Pi shaped single-board computer built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon Kryo CPU with 12Top/s neural processing capability, and equipped with 5G and Wi-Fi 6E comms. Called Tachyon, and aimed at AI edge processing, it is designed to run Ubuntu across its four 1.9GHz Arm cores, three 2.4GHz cores and single 2.7GHz core. Particle describes ...

Alphawave IP has published its trading and business update for the three months ended 30 June 2024. US$m Q2 2024 Q2 2023 Change Licence and NRE (non-recurring engineering) 94.6 47.7 98% Royalties and Silicon Orders 12.8 36.4 -65% New Bookings 107.4 84.1 27% Additional design win activity – FSA drawdowns and China re-sale licences[1] – 3.4 Nm “For the third ...

TI reported Q2  revenue of $3.82 billion, net income of $1.13 billion, “Revenue decreased 16% from the same quarter a year ago and increased 4% sequentially,” said CEo Haviv Ilan, “industrial and automotive continued to decline sequentially, while all other end markets grew.” “Our cash flow from operations of $6.4 billion for the trailing 12 months again underscored the strength ...

Infineon and Amkor have made a joint commitment to stimulate decarbonisation and sustainability strategies across the supply chain. The companies will engage with common suppliers to help them develop and implement effective decarbonisation strategies. This will involve workshops, meetings, and the sharing of best practices and learnings related to decarbonisation. The aim is to identify areas for improvement and support ...

There are three phases in the ‘hype cycle’ before market enlightenment leads to full production. The path to market for flexible electronics is a textbook example, says Dan Cathie. According to the Gartner Hype Cycle there is a natural progression that all new technologies face when first presented to market. It starts with the ‘Innovation Trigger’ when a new buzz ...

Quinas, the startup founded by IQE and the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff, has received £1.1 million from Innovate UK to take UltraRAM further towards mass production. Invented by Lancaster physics professor Manus Hayne, UltraRAM technology is non-volatile with the speed, energy-efficiency, and endurance of  DRAM. Most of the funding for the one-year project will be spent at IQE which ...

Samsung says it has won a foundry order from Preferred Networks of Japan for accelerators to be made on its 2nm GAA process and packaged using its 2.5D Interposer-Cube S (I-Cube S) heterogeneous packaging technology. “This order validates Samsung’s 2nm GAA process technology and Advanced Package technology as an ideal solution for next-generation AI accelerators,” says Samsung  vp  Taejoong Song. ...