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Monday 29 June 2009
Taiwan government launches program to strengthen MEMS supply chain
Taiwan's Science Park Administration has proposed a program, the SoC Innovative Product Partnership (SIPP), inviting players from the local CMOS and MEMS sectors to team up with the...
Thursday 25 June 2009
TSMC adopts SpringSoft Laker for 65nm CMOS node
SpringSoft has announced a multi-year technology agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to jointly develop and validate process design kits (PDKs) for chip...
Tuesday 23 June 2009
OmniVision aims to regain market share by offering inexpensive VGA CMOS image sensor
OmniVision will offer an inexpensive VGA CMOS image sensor (CIS), the 7675, for use in handsets or notebooks in September 2009, in a bid to recover lost global market share due to...
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Quanta, Pixart partner to develop CMOS optical-touch solutions
Quanta Computer and Pixart Imaging have announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which will see Quanta delegate optical touch ASIC designs to Pixart to...
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Novatek to step into CMOS image sensors
LCD driver IC design house Novatek Microelectronics will extend its business operation to CMOS image sensors (CIS) and initially offer 5-megapixel CIS products for handsets or other...
Friday 19 June 2009
TSMC gearing up for PWM IC market
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is optimistic about the outlook for the power management (PWM) IC market and expects to grab a significant market share thanks to...
Thursday 18 June 2009
Samsung CIS supply gap expands
The supply of CMOS image sensors (CIS) from Samsung Electronics is currently falling 30-40% short of demand, pushing the company to ramp up CIS production, according to sources at...
Friday 12 June 2009
APCB sees growing CMOS product sales
Taiwan-based PCB maker APCB has seen growing sales generated from its CMOS packaging board line on increased demand for CMOS sensors used in netbook webcams and games consoles, according...
Thursday 21 May 2009
NVM IC start-up claims breakthrough in NAND flash replacement
Unity Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley start‐up that will serve the semiconductor data storage memory market as a designer, developer and manufacturer of non‐volatile memory...
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Bosch Sensortec not to use Taiwan CMOS MEMS foundry services, says CEO
Germany-based Bosch Sensortec, a subsidiary of Bosch, will not employ Taiwan CMOS foundry services to make its g-sensors (accelerometers) because its has 14-years of experience making...
Wednesday 29 April 2009
SpringSoft, UMC support custom chip design with 65nm process design kit
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and SpringSoft have announced availability of the foundry-certified Laker process design kit (PDK) for UMC's 65nm manufacturing technologies...
Friday 10 April 2009
Samsung expected to increase supply share of CMOS image sensors to HTC
The proportion of Samsung Electronics' CMOS image sensors (CISs) used in High Tech Computer's (HTC's) handsets is expected to reach 50% with a more competitive pricing at the end...
Thursday 2 April 2009
China market: OmniVision adopts aggressive pricing for 1.3-megapixel CMOS image sensors
CMOS image sensor (CIS) provider OmniVision has adopted more aggressive pricing for its 1.3-megapixel CIS products, which has resulted in the company regaining part of its market...
Thursday 26 March 2009
Opto, sensor and discrete ICs will reach new record levels in 2010-2011, says IC Insights
Despite the disastrous final months of 2008, semiconductor sales of optoelectronics, MEMS-based accelerometers, CMOS image sensors, power transistors, and overall discrete devices...
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Silicon foundry Silterra ready for 110nm pilot production using CMOS logic technology
Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysia-based wafer foundry provider, has announced the official debut of copper-based 110nm CMOS logic technology. Codenamed CL110G, Silterra's 110nm...