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January 5, 2021

The company demonstrated leading performance on the new flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform through a series of synthetic industry benchmark tests. Snapdragon 888 packs industry-leading mobile innovations in 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), gaming, and camera technologies that will transform premium mobile devices coming in early 2021. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement […]

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December 31, 2020

In infrastructure, Skyworks secured multiple design wins in next-generation MIMO base stations and small cell installations. In automotive, the company ramp telematic subsystems for BMW and Tesla and launched high-speed connected car solutions for Daimler and leading OEMs in Japan and Korea. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – […]

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December 22, 2020

NXP Semiconductors and Xiaomi Inc. announced the new Xiaomi PonPon Tile 2.0 stickers, powered by NXP’s NTAG NFC chip technology. The PonPon stickers and Xiaomi’s Mijia (Mi Home) app work with a multitude of Xiaomi Mi smart home devices, such as lighting, security cameras, alarm clocks and entertainment  systems. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income […]

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December 17, 2020

AMD launched a new product in its high-performance Embedded processor family, the AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series processor. Built on the innovative 7nm process technology, ‘Zen 2’ cores and high-performance AMD Radeon™ graphics, the AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series provides a new class of performance with 7nm technology, incredible power efficiency and continues to deliver […]

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December 15, 2020

Lam Research Corp. announced advanced Striker FE platform, a new processing solution for manufacturing high-aspect-ratio chip architectures. Striker FE utilizes an innovative, first of its kind ICEFill technology for filling extreme structures in 3D NAND, DRAM, and logic devices at emerging nodes. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – […]

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December 3, 2020

Intel announced that it will acquire SigOpt, a San Francisco-based provider of a leading platform for the optimization of artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. SigOpt’s AI software technologies deliver productivity and performance gains across hardware and software parameters, use cases and workloads in deep learning, machine learning and data analytics. Executive Summary Financial […]

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December 1, 2020

STMicroelectronics and Schneider Electric are demonstrating a prototype IoT sensor that helps to enable new building-management services and efficiency gains by better understanding building-occupancy levels and usage. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow – Q3FY20 Results – Q3FY20 Results segment wise – Q3FY20 guidance and conclusion […]

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November 26, 2020

Texas Instruments introduced the TMCS1100 and TMCS1101, industry’s first zero-drift Hall-effect current sensors. They enable the lowest drift and highest accuracy over time and temperature while providing reliable 3-kVrms isolation, which is especially important for AC or DC high-voltage systems such as industrial motor drives, solar inverters, energy storage equipment, and power supplies. Executive Summary […]

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November 25, 2020

Teradyne’s new test in IA products are seeing strong market acceptance, and the company’s R&D pipelines are well stocked with future products to drive future growth.In SOC Test, the adoption rate of 5G and millimeter wave, AI integration and handset unit growth will be the key indicators to watch in the coming quarters. Executive Summary […]

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November 24, 2020

TSMC has developed an industry leading comprehensive wafer-level 3D IC technology road map to enhance system level performance. 3-nanometer technology will be the most advanced foundry technology in both PPA and transistor technology when it is introduced. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow – Q3FY20 Results […]

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October 31, 2020

Nvidia is using Micron’s new memory tech designs for its powerful gaming chips GeForce RTX 3000 series, which are manufactured by Samsung. These chips use memory technology that Micron has been developing since 2006 called GDDR6X to double the amount of data that can be shoveled into Nvidia’s chip for processing. Executive Summary Financial Statements […]

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October 31, 2020

Microchip Technology announced the first-ever Wi-Fi microcontroller (MCU) module with Microchip’s Trust&GOenabled unique, verifiable identity. For developers designing secure IIoT systems, Microchip’s highly integrated WFI32E01PC is a Trust&GO secured platform-enabled Wi-Fi MCU module that is pre-provisioned for cloud platforms Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow – […]

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October 28, 2020

Broadcom launched the highest performing router in the industry – Jericho2c+. The Jericho2c+ chip provides 14.4 terabits per second of advanced routing capabilities and the best power efficiency in the market. Jerciho2c+ enables a 36 Port 400GbE line-card with integrated security with only two chips. Broadcom continues to innovate on its high-end switching and routing […]

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October 15, 2020

Analog Devices and Microsoft Corp. have announced a strategic collaboration to leverage Microsoft’s 3D time-of-flight (ToF) sensor technology, allowing customers to easily create high-performance 3D applications. ADI’s technical expertise will build upon Microsoft Azure Kinect technology to deliver leading ToF solutions to a much broader audience in areas such as Industry 4.0, automotive, gaming, augmented […]

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October 13, 2020

NVIDIA launched its GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs, powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, that shattered the performance of its predecessors. The GeForce RTX 3090, 3080, and 3070 GPUs offer up to 2x the performance and 1.9x the power efficiency over the previous Turing-based generation. The GeForce RTX 3080 and the GeForce RTX 3090 are […]

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September 30, 2020

The commerce department has instructed U.S. chip companies in a letter that they must obtain licenses before exporting certain technology to China’s largest manufacturer of semiconductors, Semiconductor Manufacturing International. Geographically, revenue from customers based in United States accounted for 12.3% of total net revenue. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance […]

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September 29, 2020

Samsung has started manufacturing Qualcomm’s mobile application processor for low-end 5G smartphones. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 4-series processors are expected to hit the market in 2021. Xiaomi, Oppo, and Motorola are rumored to be the handset partners.  Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow – Results Overview – Segment […]

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September 21, 2020

Intel unveiled the 11th generation version of its flagship chipset ‘Tiger Lake’. The latest processor features Intel Iris Xe graphics that offer a maximum frequency of 1.35 GHz. The company also launched Evo platform brand for laptops which are powered by the Tiger Lake processor, with more than 20 verified designs expected this year under […]

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September 15, 2020

AMD has launched its new Radeon RX 5300 GPS, which supports AAA, eSports and Virtual Reality (VR) games. The new GPU is powered by the latest 7 nanometer (nm) Radeon DNA (RDNA) architecture. The RX 5300 supports DirectX12 Technology, AMD FreeSync Technology, and The Vulkan API for an improved soundscape for gaming along with better […]

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August 31, 2020

Brooks had total cash and cash equivalents of $263mn and total debt of $51mn at the end of the quarter. Operating cash flows in the quarter was $26mn,despite higher working capital due to the ramp in semiconductor solutions.CapEx was $9mn, resulting in free cash flows of $18mn. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and […]

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August 26, 2020

Lam Research and VELO3D, have entered into a partnership in a joint development agreement for novel materials and designs in metal additive manufacturing or 3D printing applications for the semiconductor industry. Over the next five years, Lam plans to significantly increase the volume of parts produced by AM. VELO3D will develop new metal alloys on […]

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August 24, 2020

NXPI has announced a collaboration with Mastercard and Xiaomi Inc. to offer more convenient and secure contactless experiences in Europe. Currently, it Is being deployed in Russia as the first phase of a European-wide roll-out with NXP’s mobile wallet solution. NXP’s cloud platform mWallet 2GO and secure NFC chips power contactless payment capabilities for Xiaomi […]

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August 18, 2020

Skyworks has been partnering and securing deals from many Mobile OEMs for its Sky5 platform. During the quarter, it secured key design wins across numerous applications. In mobile, it expanded its Sky5 platform across multiple flagship 5G models at Samsung, Motorola, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi. In automotive, it deployed its Sky5 at BMW, Ford and […]

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August 11, 2020

Teradyne will ramp its shipments of its new UltraFLEXplus SOC test system supporting recent design wins, which is expected to be a tailwind for Q3FY20 revenues. In memory, its Magnum product line is expected to drive strong demand for flash and DRAM applications. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet […]

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August 7, 2020

Texas Instruments introduced the TMCS1100 and TMCS1101, industry’s first zero-drift Hall-effect current sensors. They enable the lowest drift and highest accuracy over time and temperature while providing reliable 3-kVrms isolation, which is especially important for AC or DC high-voltage systems such as industrial motor drives, solar inverters, energy storage equipment, and power supplies. Executive Summary […]

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August 6, 2020

Semiconductor segment suffered a blow in its sales in 2019. Lower end consumer demand as well as the trade disputes between the U.S and China grounded semiconductor sentiments. By end of 2019, inventory levels began to stack up in specific areas like mobile phones and cloud infrastructure, which brought pricing pressure and negatively impacted semiconductor […]

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August 5, 2020

Cadence Design Systems has announced a three-way collaboration with TSMC and Microsoft focused on utilizing cloud infrastructure to reduce semiconductor design signoff schedules. Collaboration provides an accelerated path for customers to complete timing signoff by adopting Cadence signoff solutions using TSMC technology on the Microsoft Azure cloud with the Cadence CloudBurst Platform. Executive Summary Financial […]

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July 22, 2020

The semiconductor foundry market is consolidated due to a major share of the market is occupied by top players. The top 5 companies in the industry accounts for nearly 90% of the total market share The foundry makers caters to the demand depending upon the various application such as consumer electronics, automotive, industrial. They manufacture […]

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July 15, 2020

By combining their technology, Analog Devices, Inc. and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. acquisition is expected to strengthen and expand its business portfolio. The deal will further fortify its position in the semiconductor market, allowing the company to tap the growth across several end markets including industrial, automotive, and communications. The deal will also bring in […]

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July 9, 2020

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, an investment holding company, engages in the computer-aided design, manufacture, testing, packaging, and trading of integrated circuits (IC) and other semiconductor services.The company  has secured an investment worth $2.2bn from Chinese state investors. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow – Company Overview […]

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July 7, 2020

In NAND, Micron’s 128-layer first-generation RG NAND technology was put into production in the quarter and is already being shipped to its customers. It is also making progress on its second-generation RG node, which will be deployed broadly across its product portfolio. The company remains on track for RG production and expects to represent a […]

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June 30, 2020

NVIDIA  Corporation announced the release of more than 100 new laptop models powered by NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, bringing the RTX 2080 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER high-end GPUs to laptops for the first time, and enabling RTX 2060 laptop price points as low as $999 for a mass market audience and brought Quadro professional graphics […]

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June 25, 2020

HCL Technologies announced an expansion of the preferred services partnership signed in 2018 with Broadcom. As part of the partnership, the majority of Broadcom’s Symantec enterprise consulting team will transition to HCL. This includes expertise across endpoint security, web security services, cloud security, and data loss prevention. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and […]

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June 17, 2020

ADI expects communication market to be in a bumpy scenario, but anticipates a high growth in the long-term, due to increased 5G business.The company also temporarily suspended its share repurchase program in the quarter. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow – Results Overview – Segment Performance […]

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June 10, 2020

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., JLC Infrastructure (“JLC”) and IGNITE Cities (“IGNITE”) announced a strategic collaboration to develop and deliver a suite of smart and connected technology solutions to help meet the needs of customers in the commercial, industrial and municipal sectors. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow […]

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June 1, 2020

AMD announced three new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors that deliver percore performance leadership for database, commercial high-performance computing and hyper converged infrastructure workloads. These new AMD EPYC 7Fx2 series processors leverage higher base and boost frequencies and more cache. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow […]

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May 22, 2020

TER bought back 1.3 million shares for $79mn at an average price of $58.81 in the quarter. In light of COIVD-19, the company has decided to suspend its share repurchase program to preserve cash at this time.In March, TER introduced the MiR250 Autonomous Mobile Robot and the AutoGuide MaxN10 Pallet Stacking autonomous forklift.  Executive Summary […]

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May 19, 2020

In infrastructure, SWKS is supporting 5G Massive MIMO and small cell base station deployments across the U.S., Europe and Japan. The company has expanded its technology reach across our customized Diversity Receive platforms, with new 5G-centric solutions being deployed across a growing set of customers and leveraged its Sky5® platform across flagship 5G handset launches […]

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May 15, 2020

Lam Research announced the launch of a completely transformed plasma etch technology and system solution, designed to provide chipmakers with advanced functionality and extendibility required for future innovation. Lam’s Sense.i platform offers unparalleled system intelligence to deliver process performance at the highest productivity, supporting logic and memory device roadmaps. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income […]

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May 13, 2020

TSMC and STMicroelectronics will collaborate to develop gallium nitride technology. GaN is a wide bandgap semiconductor material that offers greater energy efficiency at higher power than traditional, silicon-based semiconductors. The partnership combines STM’s automotive expertise with TSMC’s foundry strength, which includes GaN process technology. ST expects to deliver the first samples of power GaN discrete […]

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May 6, 2020

Intel has announced the collaboration with Nokia on technology advancements for its 5G radio portfolio. The jointly developed custom silicon solutions are included in Nokia’s AirScale radio access products being shipped worldwide as part of its 5G “Powered by ReefShark” portfolio.  Executive Summary  Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash […]

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May 4, 2020

Texas Instruments  has kept its CapEx plans unchanged as it is sticking with its current roadmap of 2022 to 2025. However, it will continue with previously announced construction plans that are underway for the next generation 300 millimeter analog wafer fab in Richardson, Texas. Executive Summary  Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance […]

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April 28, 2020

Brooks Automation has acquired informatics software company RURO for a total cash purchase price of $15mn, subject to customary working capital and other adjustments. RURO provides cloud-based software solutions to manage laboratory workflow and bio-sample data. the company  expects the acquisition will be accretive to non-GAAP earnings within the first year. Executive Summary  Financial Statements […]

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April 28, 2020

The Coronavirus outbreak has led to the massacre if the global stock markets. The U.S stock markets alone fell by more than 30% during March and April 2020. The pandemic has caused many industries and businesses to come to a dead halt. While the manufacturing sector and the automotive sector have taken the biggest hit […]

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April 14, 2020

Broad has announced that its Stingray Ethernet-based adapter, 100G SmartNIC, has been selected by Baidu’s BIDU cloud platform to boost server performance and utilization. Broadcom’s Stingray adapter utilizes eight ARM A72 CPU cores to provide high performance and accelerate complex cloud-native workloads. The adapter supports 3GHz, 300G of memory bandwidth with 100G NetXtreme Ethernet NIC, […]

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April 14, 2020

Micron announced the new Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD capacity and features. The world’s first QLC solid-state drive, the Micron 5210 is based on the company’s advanced QLC NAND technology and quickly replacing legacy hard disk drives. The company recently added new features and capabilities to the 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD, including the […]

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April 9, 2020

Analog Devices Inc’s HEV platform continues to gain traction in the cabin electronics ecosystem. The company continues to work on the new applications for its customers such as active noise cancellation. In the quarter, Hyundai became the 14th auto manufacturer to incorporate in to A2B technology. Together, they announced the industry’s first all-digital road noise […]

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March 26, 2020

NVDA is including raytracing capabilities in its lower priced RTX GPUs which cost as low as $299. The company  is also expanding its GeForce NOW platform as many gamers even with normal PCs and laptops are playing on the platform.  Executive Summary  Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast – Balance Sheet – Cash Flow […]

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March 23, 2020

NXP had announced a multi-gigabit Ethernet switch designed to help automakers deliver the high-speed networks required for evolving connected vehicles.The company announced a new automotive Digital Key Solution that enables smartphones, key fobs and other mobile devices to securely communicate, store, authenticate and share digital keys with vehicles. Executive Summary Financial Statements – Income Statement […]

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March 18, 2020

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced that global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and brands ASUS, Black Shark, Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited, iQOO, Lenovo, Nubia, OPPO, realme, Redmi, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Sharp Corporation, Sony, vivo, Xiaomi and ZTE have selected the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865 5G Mobile Platform for their 5G device launches this year.  Executive Summary Financial […]

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March 11, 2020

TER introduced the UltraFLEXplus platform targeting the AI and big data markets. It launched Magnum epic platform for LPDDR5 DRAM final test and the MX44 instrument for 5G millimeter wave device test. At LitePoint, it also introduced new members of its IQgig and IQxel families of production testers for 5G handsets. Executive Summary Financial Statements […]

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February 29, 2020

AMD and Google Cloud announced the beta availability of N2D VMs on Google Compute Engine powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. The N2D family of VMs is a great option for customers running general purpose and high-performance workloads requiring a balance of compute and memory.  Executive Summary  Financial Statements – Income Statement and Forecast […]

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February 19, 2020

Lam Research Corp. is offering new capabilities in its semiconductor manufacturing systems portfolio to further improve device yield at the edge of the wafer, which is essential to delivering greater productivity for customers. During the semiconductor production process, device manufacturers want to build integrated circuits on the entire surface of the wafer. On the edge […]

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February 18, 2020

On Jan 12, 2020, Intel announced a collaboration with AREA15, one of the first purpose-built experiential retail and entertainment complexes. To thrive in the digital age, traditional retailers and malls face a reinvent-or-die reality. AREA15 is tackling this issue by offering live events, immersive experiences and activations, and monumental art installations, employing ground-breaking technology and […]

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February 10, 2020

New low-power, high-performance TI Jacinto™ 7 processors enable mass-market adoption of automotive ADAS and gateway technology. Texas Instruments introduced the new Jacinto™ 7 processor platform. Built on the foundation of TI’s decades of automotive systems and functional safety expertise, the new Jacinto processor platform brings enhanced deep learning capabilities and advanced networking to solve design […]

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February 10, 2020

SWKS is gaining momentum in automotive, enabling new wins with leaders like Continental, Nissan and Renault along with industrial players including Honeywell, Bosch and GE.The company  is pushing its automotive content with SkyOne in our emerging V2X portfolio and supplying low power, long range IoT products as [ph] Ring and many others. The company is also […]

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September 18, 2019

Increasing investments in research and development, growing demand for consumer electronics, and evolving IOT market are all contributing to the market growth of the industry. It is very evident that the following decades brings in a lot of opportunities for the growth of the semiconductor industry. It is expected that in the forecast period 2018-2022, […]

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July 3, 2019

The weakness in demand which began in 2HFY18 continued in FY19 for TXN. The weakness was seen across all major markets with the exception of communications equipment. Communications equipment was stronger than expected due to shipments of products that support 5G, grew about 30% Y/Y. Embedded segment revenues declined 14% in the quarter as it […]

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