Nexperia took a big step in March, moving from its established business of discrete logic and transistors to power management ICs. A new design centre in Dallas, its first in North America, taps a pool of established power and analog designers. The Chinese-owned company says it is not competing…

Japanese printing conglomerate Toppan is spinning out its semiconductor photomask business into a joint venture prior to a stock market listing Toppan Photomask has been set up with Japanese private equity firm Integral as an investment partner, and says it is the only mask maker with sites in Europe, the…

Synopsys has teamed with Microsoft to launch a pay-as-you-go cloud platform that it says has all the tools needed for chip design. The cloud-optimized electronic design automation (EDA) deployment model provides the Synopsys design and verification tools with pre-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. The pre-configured tool flow helps to address…

荷兰芯片设计师现已推出其最新的能源收集电源管理芯片（PMIC），具有更自动化的功能和集成。NH16D3045 DiAtom是一种无电源设计，具有集成电源管理功能，可降低所需的实现成本和面积。4x4mm设备具有宽的电源输入范围从...