International

Infineon acquires Cypress Semiconductor

The risky bet of the Campeon

Infineon plans to acquire US competitor Cypress for 9 bn. euros, the largest investment in the company's history. According to the management's view, as usual there are many "synergies" and "further development potentials" to be found in such…

Further Breakthrough

AI Beats People in Team Games

In chess and go AI systems have beaten people, now they also win games in which they have…

Smartphone as Control Device

Driver Assistance by App

VIA Technologies used Computex 2019 to introduce a driver assistance app for smartphones.

Semiconductor manufacturing

Where Investments were made in new Semiconductor Factories

Year-on-year, expenses for semiconductor production equipment decreased by 19%. There are,…

Project EuroLED by Fraunhofer CAN

New Technology for Warm White LEDs

Although LEDs are more energy-efficient than conventional light sources, they do not…

1st and 2nd Quarter

DRAM Price Erosion Continues

DRAM prices continued to fall in the first quarter of 2019 and the trend will continue in…

Horizont Ranking by Advertising Revenue

WEKA FACHMEDIEN trade journals among the top

WEKA FACHMEDIEN are broadly represented in the annual Horizont trade magazine ranking…

TU Munich

New semiconductor hybrid material splits water more efficiently

Until now, the low efficiency has slowed down the large-scale industrial use of…

Processor IP Verification

Testing RISC-V Processor Cores for Conformity

With the RISC-V Verification App, OneSpin Solutions provides a tool for verifying RISC-V…

New Test Procedure

How User-friendly is Virtual Reality?

In order to find out whether a virtual world is user-friendly, time-consuming manual tests…