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Aiming to be a global leader in sensor solutions and photonics – ams acquires OSRAM
On July 9, 2020 ams AG, a leading worldwide supplier of high-performance sensor solutions announced the successful closing of their acquisition of OSRAM Licht AG (OSRAM). The deal has closed and offered price paid to all holders of the tendered shares.ams now holds 69% of…
Trinamic and Maxim Integrated Bring Together the World’s Best Motion Control Solutions
According to Maxim Integrated’s news, Maxim Integrated has recently announced the acquisition of Trinamic. Trinamic translates digital information into physical motion to deliver motion control solutions. Trinamic’s motion control expertise and Maxim Integrated’s analog process technology and power design skills enable a new class of intelligent…
Infineon announces final regulatory approval for acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
On April 7, 2020, Infineon Technologies AG announced that all necessary regulatory approvals have been received for its acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and Infineon expected to close the transaction within five business days. On June 3, 2019, Infineon Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor announced…
COVID-19 Impact Updates | Industry News
Automakers Fight the COVID-19 ‘The Age of Ventilators’
The World faces a dangerous shortage of ventilators, the essential devices that assist the breathing of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Ventilators, which move air in and out of the lungs, could be the difference between life and death. While the makers of N95 masks, Ventilators,…
Intel Apologizes for Delays in CPUs’ Shipments AGAIN!
Intel has been having chip shortage issues since mid-2018 and still has not managed to catch up with the ever-increasing CPU demand. Towards the end of 2018, Intel officials stated that the 14nm shortages are linked to the company’s efforts to launch the 10nm generation of chips,…
Taiwan’s Yageo To Take Over US Rival Kemet’s Outstanding Shares
On Nov 12, 2019, Yageo Corporation announced its intention to acquire the outstanding shares of KEMET’s common stock for $ 27.20 per share in an all-cash transaction with total equity valued of $ 1.64 billion US dollars. The purchase price represents a premium of 26% to KEMET’s volume-weighted average price…
Raising the Tariffs on Imported China Goods
25% to 30% Tariff Increase Coming October 15 Just announced, the United States will begin the process of raising the tariffs represented on List 1, 2 and list 3 approximately from 25% to 30%. These three lists of goods will impose a tariff of approximately $250 billion of goods imported from…
Congratulations MIT Hyperloop II Team: 1st of all US Teams @ SpaceX Hyperloop Competition IV
MIT Hyperloop II team places 1st out of all the US teams and 5th internationally at the @SpaceX Hyperloop Competition IV on July 21 The MIT Hyperloop II team faced some tough challenges and triumphantly came out of the tunnel ranked #1 among the USA…
Good Luck to the MIT Hyperloop II Team at this year’s Hyperloop International Finals
For the last four years SpaceX has held an annual worldwide competition to design a vehicle that can whisk passengers through a vaccum tunnel. This tunnel is to serve as a tube carrying a friction-less vehicle about 700 miles per hour. 2,000 plus teams…
Yamagata Earthquake: Impact to Electronics Industry
On June 18, 2019 at 10:22 p.m. an earthquake measuring 6.4 Mw struck the coast of Yamagata and the surrounding areas in Japan. The earthquake originated at the convergent boundary of the Amur Plate and the Okhotsk Plate that lies under the Sea of Japan,…