Semiconductors – Page 9

Sigmaintell Forecasts Driver Chips Market as Flat

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chinese analyst, Sigmaintell said that the global market for display drivers grew by about 5% in 2020, with 7.8 billion devices sold, driven by strong demand for IT panels for monitors, …

Tags:Display Drivers| Market Data| Semiconductors

Automotive display shipment increases 22% in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that the automotive display market jumped 22% in 2020 to 351 million units, quoting Omdia as the source. Centre stack displays grew by 47% in the the year …

Tags:Automotive| Market Data| Semiconductors| Taiwan| TSMC

TSMC to Kick off Mass Production of Intel CPUs in 2H21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say EE Times reports, quoting Trendforce as a source, that Intel has moved the production of 15% to 20% of its non-CPU chips to TSMC and UMC. While the company is planning …

Tags:CPUs| Intel| Semiconductors| TSMC

Global Smartphone Production Expected to Reach 1.36 Billion Units in 2021 as Huawei Drops Out of Top-Six Ranking, Says TrendForce (2)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Trendforce of Taiwan said that volumes of smartphones manufactured in 2021 will reach 1.36 billion units this year, up from 1.25 billion this year, up 9%. The big change in brand …

Porotech Offers Native Red LED Epiwafers for MicroLED Applications

by Arthur Berman

A start-up company out of Cambridge University, Poro Technologies Ltd. (Sawston, United Kingdom) or Porotech has announced the upcoming availability of a native red LED epiwafer product. The development of an efficient native red …

Tags:LED| Semiconductors

Interesting Links for W/E 25th December 2020

by Bob Raikes

Every week, we see interesting articles where we can’t really add value or they are just interesting and not related to displays, so we put them in a round-up list. French startup is preparing …

Porotech announces the world’s first red GaN microLED epiwafer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat tip to DSCC’s subscription newsletter for alerting me to an announcement by Porotech, a start-up in Cambridge, UK, that had slipped under our radar. The company has just announced …

Tags:MicroLED| Semiconductors

Apple May be Genuinely Disruptive. Again

by Bob Raikes

When I did a search of the Display Daily website for the term ‘Disruptive’, there were 166 articles identified. However, looking through them, I had to go back to a Display Daily I wrote …

Tags:Apple| PCs| Semiconductors

Apple Adds Own Chip Option to Macs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has launched three new Macs that use its own chips, rather than those of Intel, which it has used since 2006. The architecture will be based on Arm technology. Arm, …

Tags:Apple| Arm| Semiconductors

Companies Sign Development And License Agreement to Accelerate MicroLED Mass Production

by Artem Alekseenko

Lextar Electronics Corp., a leader in Opto-Semiconductor solutions and X Display Company (XDC), a leader in MicroLED displays, announced that the companies entered into agreements, including Development and License Agreement and Services Agreement wherein …

Tags:MicroLED| Semiconductors

Nvidia Purchase of Arm Completely Resets Semiconductor Landscape

by Bob O'Donnell

Wow. That’s about all you can say to what could prove to be one of the biggest semiconductor purchases in the multi-decade history of the chip business. The amazing irony is that this $40 …

Tags:Arm| Mergers & Acquisitions| Nvidia| Semiconductors