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…

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…

Dutch chip designer Nowi has launched its latest energy harvesting power management chip (PMIC) with more automated functions and integration. The NH16D3045 Diatom is an inductorless design with integrated power management functions to reduce the implementation cost and area required. The 4x4mm device has a wide power input range from…

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…