48 PCB007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2021
Siemens Acquires proFPGA Product
Family from PRO DESIGN E
Building on the recent announcement of its
next-generation Veloce hardware-assisted ver-
ification system for integrated circuits (ICs),
Siemens Digital Industries Soware has signed
an agreement with Germany-based PRO DE-
SIGN Electronic GmbH to acquire its proF-
PGA product family of Field Programmable
Gate Array (FPGA) desktop prototyping tech-
nologies.
Q1 2021 Global Semiconductor Equipment
Billings Increase 51% YoY E
Global semiconductor equipment billings in-
creased 51% year-over-year and 21% from the pri-
or quarter to US$23.6 billion, SEMI announced
in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment
Market Statistics (WWSEMS) report.
NORBIT Enters Nordic Semiconductor
IoT Partner Program E
NORBIT announces signing of Partner Pro-
gram Agreement with Nordic Semiconductor,
a Norwegian fabless semiconductor company
specializing in wireless communication tech-
nology, to explore joint opportunities stem-
ming from Internet of ings (IoT).
Energous, Atmosic Achieve Industry First
Interoperability Energy Harvesting E
Energous Corporation, the developer of Wat-
tUp®, and Atmosic Technologies, an innovator
of ultra-low power wireless for the Internet of
ings (IoT), announced they have achieved
the industry's first interoperability for radio
frequency (RF) energy harvesting technology.
Atotech Experts Present at Global
Semiconductor & Electronics Forum E
Atotech, a global supplier of specialty chemi-
cals, equipment, soware, held a presentation
at the Global Semiconductor & Electronics
Forum on semiconductor innovation in June.
SEMI Supports Introduction of Fabs Act
to Spur Semiconductor Manufacturing
Growth E
SEMI, the industry association serving the
global electronics design and manufacturing
supply chain, has expressed strong support for
the Facilitating American-Built Semiconduc-
tors (FABS) Act.
KLA Launches Automotive Products to
Improve Chip Yield and Reliability E
KLA Corporation announced the launch of
four new products for automotive chip man-
ufacturing: the 8935 high productivity pat-
terned wafer inspection system, the C205
broadband plasma patterned wafer inspec-
tion system, the Surfscan® SP A2/A3 unpat-
terned wafer inspection systems, and I-PAT®
inline defect part average testing screening
solution.
Scientists Develop Transparent Electrode
that Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency E
Developing new ultrathin metal electrodes
has allowed researchers to create semitrans-
parent perovskite solar cells that are highly
efficient and can be coupled with traditional
silicon cells to greatly boost the performance
of both devices, said an international team of
scientists.
