The process of designing, manufacturing, and testing ICs is complex and exhaustive. The main contributors are the design and verification teams, IP vendors, and IC manufacturers. The process of ...

Forming circuits involves the use of cylindrical pieces of semiconductor material. These cylinders are sliced into thin, circular pieces known as bare wafers. The bare wafers are then oxidized before ...

Oki Electric Industry and Nisshinbo Micro Devices in Tokyo are collaborating to develop a new type of thin-film 3D analogue IC. These chips are designed to ...

From smartphones to aircraft, the miniature, delicate, and tiny microchips drive nearly every possible aspect of today's life. In 2025, terms like chip wars and rare minerals dominated global ...

A sensor signal conditioner (SSC) is an integrated circuit that improves — or conditions — the signal coming from a sensor to reduce noise. The SSC also converts the signal from analog to digital ...

Fig. 1. Simplified Power Bank circuit. To understand the advantages of Active-Semi’s new ACT2800 family of Power Bank ICs, we have to look at a typical application. The Power Bank is essentially a ...

The rising complexities of semiconductor processes and design are driving an increasing use of on-chip monitors to support data analytics from an IC’s birth through its end of life — no matter how ...

Last year, we saw the announcement of a chip design hub in Puchong, Selangor last year. It was the first of its kind, and now ...

China has had a long history of supporting its semiconductor development with industrial policies. The "Outline for advancing the national IC industry" announced in 2014 upgraded semiconductors from a ...

Market is Segmented by Type (Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), IC Physical Design & Verification, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and Multi-Chip Module (MCM), Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP)), ...

Silicon X Sdn Bhd, a homegrown integrated circuit (IC) design company, has achieved a major milestone in Malaysia’s ...