Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has announced the successful completion of its first 45nm GP (generic process) yield lot. The China-based foundry signed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and SpringSoft have announced availability of the foundry-certified Laker process design kit (PDK) for UMC's 65nm manufacturing technologies...
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...
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...
Despite the disastrous final months of 2008, semiconductor sales of optoelectronics, MEMS-based accelerometers, CMOS image sensors, power transistors, and overall discrete devices...
