With display driver IC (DDI) supplier FocalTech Systems announcing plans to lay off 10-15% of employees and reduce pays for all its senior executives, market concerns are rapidly rising over whether the entire IC design industry will fall into a storm of layoffs and salary cuts, according to industry sources. But IC design engineers will probably stay unaffected, the sources added.

Rohm Semiconductor has struck a strategic cooperation agreement with China’s Shenzhen-based BASiC Semiconductor under which the pair will jointly develop SiC power devices for electric vehicles.

Traveling from Thailand to the Malaysian border and further down to Singapore has been possible for decades with the internal combustion engine. Located between Singapore and Thailand, Malaysia is a crucial stopover point for electric vehicle (EV) commuters on an 862km E-journey.

For 3G and 4G, Indian operators depend on foreign telecom gear for their wireless services. However, Indian companies are trying to change that by developing and manufacturing indigenous equipment leveraging Open RAN.