Analog designers tend to stick with a component that they have used successfully, even if it’s a few years old and could easily be replaced.

— Investment aims to accelerate real-time analog product development and address surging demand for custom silicon across AI, edge computing, and many other applications — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 5, ...

One of the greatest things about National Semiconductor’s analog design flow was what they called planet runs. A planet run is single wafer that has maybe 10 or even 100 different IC designs on it. So ...

The analog IC supply has been tight but may start to loosen in the second half of 2022, which could force related IC suppliers in Taiwan to change their pricing strategies for the rest of the year, ...

Another year of double-digit market growth is expected for analog ICs in 2022 after sales in this semiconductor category surged by an unprecedented 30% in 2021, according to IC Insights. Total analog ...

Portable ultrasound equipment could get a big boost from the introduction of a new analog integrated circuit (IC) that enables next-generation machines to pack more performance into a smaller ...

A recent Semiconductor Intelligence Newsletter reviewed the present lineup of analog semiconductor companies. The newsletter said that one of the current changes involved Renesas Electronics’ ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OKI (TOKYO: 6703), in collaboration with Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. (Head office: Tokyo; President: Keiichi Yoshioka), has successfully achieved three-dimensional (3D) ...

Bob Widlar (1937-1991) is without a doubt one of the most famous hardware engineers of all time. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he is the person who single-handedly started the ...

Digital design is hard. But in the right environment, digital circuits are more forgiving than analog. That 3.3V signal coming out of the chip has to drop a lot along the way to not be a logic level ...