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| India’s power demand set to surge 6% |
7/28/2022 |
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India’s power demand is seen growing over 6% for the second straight fiscal year, and above the pre-pandemic levels and the long-period average growth of 5%. This trend of above-average growth could continue for two more fiscals.
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| STMicroelectronics has introduced the market’s first Serial Page EEPROM |
7/27/2022 |
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This brand-new class of EEPROM is a high-density, page-erasable SPI memory that delivers unique and unprecedented flexibility and performance with ultra-low power consumption. Starting with the 32Mb M95P32, ST will grow the new Serial Page EEPROM family by adding 16Mbit and 8Mbit density options in due course.
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| Intel Corp.to foundry for MediaTek Inc. |
7/27/2022 |
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Intel Corp. and MediaTek Inc. have announced a strategic partnership to manufacture chips using Intel Foundry Services’ (IFS) advanced process technologies. The agreement is designed to help MediaTek build a more balanced, resilient supply chain through the addition of a new foundry partner with significant capacity in the United States and Europe.
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| Semiconductor Chip Bill is not without opposition in Washington |
7/26/2022 |
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Sanders, I-Vt., said he doesn’t hear from people about the need to help the semiconductor industry. Voters talk to him about climate change, gun safety, preserving a woman’s right to an abortion and boosting Social Security benefits, to name just a few.
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| Massively scalable qubit technologies are a must for Quantum computing |
7/26/2022 |
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For several sectors looking to drastically increase their procedures and capacities, quantum computing opens the next frontier of computing power. To achieve this, massively scalable qubit technologies must be created. Additionally, rising quantities of qubits must be controlled, and error levels must be kept as low as possible to prevent measurement from being impacted.
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| eMMC interface shines over UFS for low–power, low–capacity applications |
7/25/2022 |
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UFS was trumpeted as widely replacing eMMC when it debuted, it’s overkill for some applications. Eric Spanneut, vice president of flash global product management for Western Digital’s flash business unit, said eMMC works best for mid–range mobile devices and thin–and–light entry–level compute devices, as well as wide range of emerging applications. “eMMC is here to stay for a very long time,”
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| Toshiba favors 4 firms as potential acquirers |
7/22/2022 |
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Toshiba announced on Tuesday it has settled on a shortlist of potential buyers, with local reports suggesting its list of suitors includes Bain, Japan Industrial Partners, Brookfield Asset Management and CVC Capital Partners.
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| Overstock situations drive NAND prices down 10 to 13% |
7/21/2022 |
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According to TrendForce. The market consensus is a disappointing 2H22 peak season for consumer electronics including notebooks, TVs, and smartphones. Material inventory levels continue to rise and has become a risk to the supply chain.
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| ASML cuts outlook |
7/21/2022 |
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Due to supply chain constraints, ASML has increased fast shipments to its customers and revised its sales growth forecast, from 20% to 10%, for fiscal year 2022.
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| First Power 'ChiP' Fab Supports Automotive Electrification and Data Centers |
7/21/2022 |
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Vicor Corp., the industry leader in innovative power–module design and manufacturing, has recently celebrated the opening of a new 90,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Andover, Massachusetts. The power–module–manufacturing facility, created to support the demand coming from the fast-growing automotive electrification and data center/AI industries, is the world’s first converter-housed-in-package (CHiP) fabrication facility.
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