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| ARM plans 15% workforce reduction |
3/17/2022 |
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“Like any business, Arm is continually reviewing its business plan to ensure the company has the right balance between opportunities and cost discipline. Unfortunately, this process includes proposed redundancies across Arm’s global workforce.”
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| Micron offers SSD made with 176 layers NAND |
3/16/2022 |
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The Micron 7450 SSD with NVMe delivers quality-of-service (QoS) latency at or below 2ms, a wide capacity range, and the broadest set of form factors available to meet the needs of the most demanding data center workloads.
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| EV companies to resume autonomous vehicle (AV) passenger services testing |
3/16/2022 |
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Testing shut down completely in response to the pandemic but began to revive last summer. As a practical matter, only three companies (Pony.ai, Waymo, Zoox) performed enough testing to generate a meaningful amount of data, and one company (Aurora) had its permit to test revoked, but testing activity is clearly picking back up.
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| ROHM-Wako Electronics expands component factory in Malaysia |
3/16/2022 |
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ROHM-Wako Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (RWEM) is expanding its electronic components facility in Kelantan, Malaysia, with a total investment of RM910 million ($216.26 million at $1=RM4.20). This investment is expected to create high-skilled jobs for over 340 Malaysians. It is the single biggest investment ever made by the company
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| Sanctions keeps 5G from deploying in Russia |
3/16/2022 |
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Ericsson and Nokia have already confirmed that they have stopped supplying infrastructure to Russian operators Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Megafon, and Veon. Russia’s largest mobile operator MTS started working with the Swedish vendor in 2020 on large-scale modernization of its existing cellular infrastructure (2G/3G/4G) towards a 5G future.
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| Shenzhen lock-down closes Foxconn local production |
3/15/2022 |
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Businesses providing non-essential services have been ordered to close and everyone in the city of 17 million will be tested for COVID-19 following the reporting of 60 new infections on Sunday.
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| MediaTek made record sales |
3/14/2022 |
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In a statement, MediaTek said it posted NT$40.03 billion (US$1.41 billion) in consolidated sales in February, up 22.97 percent from a year earlier.
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| CEO of Micron Technology optimistic about Semiconductor Shortage |
3/14/2022 |
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"There are parts of the chip shortage that will continue to improve as we go through calendar year 2022 and some parts of this will continue into 2023 as well," Mehrotra said. "Of course, Micron continues to make the necessary investments to meet the demand growth that our customers are bringing to us."
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| Biden talks to IT Industry leaders on semiconductor shortage |
3/11/2022 |
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Biden said the nation is seeing a revitalization of American manufacturing, especially in the industrial Midwest, and that companies are choosing to build new factories in the U.S. when just a few years ago they would have built them overseas.
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| ITRI and UCLA signed a Voltage Control Magnetic RAM (VC-MRAM) cooperation project |
3/11/2022 |
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With the support from Taiwan’s Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT), Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), this collaboration aims to leverage the technical expertise and innovative capacity from both parties to apply material components to memory chips for computing and storage.
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| Phison expands into automotive data storage |
3/10/2022 |
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Phison Electronics has had its solutions pass ISO 26262 automotive functional safety and development process certification, and is looking to expand its presence in the global automotive storage market.
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| DDR3 DRAM prices to go up citing supply issues |
3/10/2022 |
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With Korean suppliers accelerating their withdrawal from DDR3 production, Taiwanese suppliers yet to kick off mass production using newly installed capacities, and Chinese suppliers falling short of their expected yield rate, the global supply of DDR3 solutions will undergo an impending decline.
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| SEMICON Southeast to open in Penang, Malaysia |
3/10/2022 |
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To be held from 21-23 June 2022, SEMICON Southeast Asia 2022 will commemorate Malaysia’s 50th Year of Manufacturing Excellence and celebrate Penang’s reputation as the Silicon Valley of the East.
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| Apple M2 chip could be imminent and find a home in multiple Macs |
3/9/2022 |
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That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in his ‘Power on’ newsletter. Gurman claims that a “developer source” has informed him that Apple is testing a new chip at the moment. What's more, this chip has an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, and has been tested on various unreleased macOS updates running on multiple Mac machines.
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| U.S. fabs don't help until we have backends and assembly test |
3/9/2022 |
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While U.S. legislators prepare to approve a $52 billion package of incentives to help revive the domestic semiconductor industry, there are concerns that most of the financial support will go to chipmakers that don’t need assistance while the dwindling U.S. assembly and test segment goes neglected.
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