STMicroelectronics partnered with Fidesmo, a contactless service developer and a MasterCard certified supplier, to develop an active NFC total solution for secure contactless payment for wearable technologies such as smart watches. Fidesmo’s MasterCard MDES tokenization platform completes the solution by allowing the user to load the personal data needed for payment transactions. Convenient Over-The-Air (OTA)…

STMicroelectronics announced to open the STM32 official online store on tmall.com, the first batch of products available for sale are STM32 microcontrollers and related evaluation boards. The opening of the STM32 Tmall online store marks the expansion of STMicroelectronics and Alibaba’s efforts to provide a complete IoT vertical solution for the Chinese market. A few days…

Affected by multiple factors such as insufficient supply of upstream materials, insufficient capacity of 8-inch wafers, and international IDM exit from the medium and low-voltage MOSFET market, global MOSFET supply is tightening and prices are rising. For the lead time and price situation of MOSFET and IGBT, Infineon started that the lead time may exceed 26…

Infineon Technologies AG held early-stage talks about buying STMicroelectronics NV last year, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would have created a European semiconductor powerhouse. Infineon hired BNP Paribas SA as an adviser and studied the purchase for about three months, approaching STMicro before dropping the idea last August, said the people, who asked…

ST’s  STCH03 offline Pulse-Width Modulation controller combines high integration with accurate constant-current output using primary-side regulation enabling economical mobile chargers, power adapters, or auxiliary supplies to meet stringent eco-design limits for average efficiency and standby power. At heavier loads, the STCH03 maximizes efficiency by operating in quasi-resonant mode with zero-voltage switching (ZVS) controlled by detecting transformer…

The top 10 semiconductor  suppliers in the $54.5 billion analog market last year accounted for 59% of the category’s worldwide sales in 2017, according to a recent monthly update to semiconductor Insights’ 2018 McClean Report. Collectively, the top 10 semiconductor companies generated $32.3 billion in analog semiconductor sales last year compared to $28.4 billion in 2016, which…