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The global semiconductor market will continue to march ahead with significant growth forecasted next few years, from $350.2B in 2016 reaching $428.9B in 2020 based on a recent IC Insights report Electronic Components Distributor. Drivers adding to this growth are increasing smartphone production (for the expense of feature phones), an increase within the usage and complexity of automotive electronics plus the Internet of Things. The latter of the has shown huge boost in the proliferation of smart sensing devices in additional and more smart connected “things.”

This almost insatiable demand is fueling many technologies and new developments from the semiconductor industry. Such innovations are the introduction of latest process technologies and new power-efficient design techniques, like the use of cost-effective fabrication processes that integrate control logic, analog functions and robust power stages.

The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co. can take foreign money, the country’s tech industry overseer said on April 25.

“The second phase from the national IC fund remains raising money. We welcome overseas companies to participate inside fund,” Chen Yin, general engineer and spokesman with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in Beijing.

Semiconductors lie on the heart of your spat between world’s two largest economies, a dispute that’s swelling tariffs, chilling Chinese investments in American companies and hampering the Asian nation’s continuing development of technologies from fifth-generation wireless to artificial intelligence.

In addition, the capabilities of handling higher voltage and current requirements yet with smaller die sizes can be appealing to reduce NASA’s missions operation and launch costs. This warm, radiation hardened SiC-based power conversion system may find extensive applications in space explorations for several power management and distributions.The development, demonstration, and integration of high-performance Analog ICs, lightweight, compact SiC-based inverter will probably be directly applicable on the military, transportation, energy, aerospace and also other commercial sectors for a number of power management and distribution.