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Tieto, STMicroelectronics
collaborate on software

Wearable technology
market surging

Tieto, a software and services
company and a member of
the ST Partner Program, and
STMicroelectronics have
announced collaborative
efforts to develop Central
Control Unit (CCU) software
to run on STMicroelectronics'
Telemaco3P platform.
Electrification and connectivity requirements of vehicles
are pushing greater processing
power and uncompromised
cybersecurity. In turn, automakers' demands for Central
Control Units meeting connectivity, data privacy, security, and over-the-air update
needs have led ST to develop
the Telemaco family of automotive, multiprocessor SoCs
and its associated Telemaco3P
Modular Telematics Platform
(MTP), which provides an open
development environment for
prototyping advanced smartdriving applications. The
secure and safe Telemaco3P
automotive SoC embeds an
isolated Hardware Security
Module for state-of-the-art
security.
Tieto's software R&D services division and ST are developing vehicle CCU software
and next-generation telemat-

The wearable technology market's growth is accelerating,
partly due to Apple's expansion
of its product portfolio. Market
researcher International Data
Corp.'s estimates for Q3 2019
show global unit volumes soaring to 84.5 million units.
IDC stated in a press release
that hearables-ear-worn
wearables-represent about
half of the market, with wristworn items such as smartwatches being the next-largest
category. According to IDC, the
global market for wearables
shipping is likely to end 2019
with an increase of 71.4% from
2018.

ics solutions based on the
Telemaco3P platform. Tieto
aids customers with system integration as well as design and
development of a wide range of
secure smart-driving applications. These applications will
support high-throughput wireless connectivity, over-the-air
firmware upgrades, and car-tocar communication solutions.

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SEMI: Semiconductor equipment
sales set for rebound
Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales will drop
10.5% to $57.6 billion in 2019 from 2018's historic peak of $64.4
billion but stage a 2020 recovery and set a new high in 2021, SEMI
reported recently in its Year-End Total Equipment Forecast.
Released at SEMICON Japan 2019, the forecast shows equipment
sales registering a 5.5% increase to $60.8 billion in 2020 and continued expansion into 2021, with record revenues of $66.8 billion
as leading device manufactures invest in sub-10-nm equipment,
especially for foundry and logic.
The SEMI year-end forecast shows sales of wafer fab equipment-consisting of wafer processing, fab facility, and mask/
reticle equipment-falling 9% in 2019 to $49.9 billion. The assembly
and packaging equipment segment is on track to decline 26.1%
to $2.9 billion in 2019, while semiconductor test equipment is
forecast to drop 14.0% to $4.8 billion this year.
Taiwan will dethrone Korea as the largest equipment market
and lead the world with 53.3% growth this year, followed by North
America with a 33.6% uptick. China will maintain the second spot
for the second consecutive year, and Korea will fall to third after
throttling back capital expenditures. All regions tracked except
Taiwan and North America will contract this year.
SEMI expects the 2020 equipment market recovery to be
fueled by advanced logic and foundry, new projects in China,
and, to a lesser extent, memory. In Europe, equipment sales
will surge 45.9% to $3.3 billion. Taiwan is forecast to remain
the top equipment market next year on the strength of $15.4
billion in sales, with China second at $14.9 billion and Korea
third at $10.3 billion.

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Marvin Test Solutions
completes SmartCan
deliveries to Israeli
Air Force
Marvin Test Solutions, Inc.
(MTS) announced that it
has successfully completed
deliveries of all MTS-3060A
SmartCan Universal O-Level
Armament Test Sets to the
Israeli Air Force (IAF). The rugged flightline hand-held MTS3060A SmartCan can test all
Alternate Mission Equipment
(AME) and Aircraft Armament
Equipment (AAE) including
pylons, launchers, bomb racks,
and pods. Addressing an armament test gap that exists across
legacy 4th- and 5th-generation
aircraft equipped with smart
weapon technology (MILSTD-1760), the MTS-3060A
enables support for any aircraft
and any smart or legacy armament system.
"The IAF has selected the
SmartCan from Marvin Test
Solutions as a universal flightline armament test set for F-16
and F-15 because of its robust
test capabilities," said Major
Dror Hadar from the Israeli

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