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| IC designers in Taiwan goes in alliance to stay competitive |
8/4/2021 |
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Facing increasing cost pressure on developing new-generation chip solutions, prompted them to form alliances with peers and partners in other semiconductor segments or integrate subsidiaries to build their own fleet of design forces, according to industry sources.
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| Toshiba offers 12 new motor control MCUs |
8/3/2021 |
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All of the products announced are based upon an ARM Cortex-M4 core with floating-point unit (FPU) and memory protection unit (MPU), running at speeds up to 160MHz.
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| Micron ships 176-layer NAND UFS 3.1 mobile memory |
8/2/2021 |
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Engineered for high-end and flagship phones, Micron’s discrete UFS 3.1 mobile NAND unlocks 5G’s potential with up to 75% faster sequential write and random read performance than prior generations, enabling downloads of two-hour 4K movies in as little as 9.6 seconds.
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| IC unit shipments to surge 21% in 2021 |
8/2/2021 |
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IC unit shipments for 2021 will reach 391.2 billion, more than 11 times the 34.1 billion units shipped over 30 years ago in 1990, IC Insights indicated.
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| STMicroelectronics see strong coming demand |
8/2/2021 |
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The second-quarter net revenues totaled $2.99 billion, up 43.4% year-over-year. The gross margin of 40.5% and operating margin of 16.3% improved from 35.0% and 5.1%, respectively. And the net income rose to $412 million.
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| Samsung post %8.3 billion profit |
7/30/2021 |
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Samsung Electronics’ operating profit in the second quarter soared 54.3 percent on-year to reach 12.5 trillion won ($10.9 billion), its best quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2018.
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| Qualcomm predicts IC shortage to end 2022 |
7/30/2021 |
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The company says it is having multiple vendors produce the same type of chip to boost its supply. Demand for Qualcomm’s products, however, is still outstripping its ability to supply them.
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| Advanced Micro Devices Inc forecast robust business |
7/29/2021 |
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Although, AMD has been more constrained than rivals like Intel Corp by supply chain bottlenecks, including a shortage of raw materials like substrates, it has averted damage to revenue by selling its higher-end chips used in servers, PCs and notebooks.
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| Many new consumer applications are to come with 5G |
7/29/2021 |
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Immersion can come, for example, from multi-view–angle technology and can find some interesting practical implementations. One is virtual shopping, which could revolutionize the retail customer experience. Another strong developmental focus is cloud gaming, for which consumers need access to powerful platforms and for which strong, fast, low-latency communication is required. 5G coverage is an essential enabler for this specific, high-value, and rapidly developing application.
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| Intel discloses its course over the next few years |
7/28/2021 |
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That’ll be five nodes taking Intel into 2025. The roadmap the company just announced includes a new transistor architecture — a gate all-around variant Intel calls the ribbonFET; a new interconnect technology called PowerVia that uses the back of the wafer; and the announcement that Intel is contributing to an evolution of EUV technology with lithography specialist ASML.
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| SK hynix Inc. is confident that happy market days for memory is just ahead |
7/28/2021 |
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The world’s No. 2 memory chipmaker disclosed Tuesday that it posted an operating profit of 2.7 trillion won ($2.3 billion), up 103.5 percent on quarter and 38.3 percent on year. Revenue increased 21.5 percent on quarter and 19.9 percent on year to 10.3 trillion won. Net income was at 1.99 trillion won, up 100.3 percent on quarter and 56.5 percent on year.
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| MediaTek offers the Kompanio 1300T chipset for Android tablets |
7/28/2021 |
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Built upon TSMC’s 6nm process, this is an 8-core CPU that comes with an ARM Cortex-A78 cores plus Cortex-A55 efficiency cores, but MediaTek has not fully detailed the configuration. Graphic performance should be fairly solid with the usage of the ARM Mali-G77 MC9 GPU.
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| Apple reserved 100M A15 from TSMC |
7/28/2021 |
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The figure indicates potential expectations for a large-scale launch of the upcoming iPhone 13 lineup, with chipsets produced using TSMC's 5-nanometer process.
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| Intel CFO predicts CPU shortage starting at Q3 |
7/27/2021 |
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In fact, Intel’s chief financial officer, George Davis, has said there will be ‘acute’ supply problems in Q3 (from now through to September), following CEO Pat Gelsinger’s recent observation that the global chip shortage is likely to continue for one or two years, so perhaps until 2023.
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