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MediaTek Q2 result top guidance |
7/14/2020 |
MediaTek has reported consolidated revenue climbed 11.1% sequentially to a 14-quarter high of NT$67.6 billion (US$2.3 billion) in the second quarter of 2020. The results beat its guidance.
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TSMC broke record on June sales |
7/13/2020 |
TSMC reported a new company high for June sales Friday, which analysts attributed to solid demand for emerging technologies such as 5G applications and high performance computing (HPC) devices.
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Snapdragon 865 Plus is for gamers |
7/10/2020 |
First, the speed increases: Qualcomm is promising a 10-percent faster CPU and GPU, thanks to faster clock rates. The CPU is officially up to 3.1Ghz now, and since the GPU on the Snapdragon 865 runs at 600MHz, the Plus version should be up around 660MHz.
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Nvidia has taken over Intel on capital stock value |
7/10/2020 |
Nvidia’s shares rose 2.3% in afternoon trading on Wednesday to a record $404, putting the graphic component maker’s market capitalization at $248 billion, just above the $246 billion value of Intel, once the world’s leading chipmaker.
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Global Foundries remains a DOD trusted source for chips |
7/10/2020 |
The company announced plans in May to implement U.S. export controls at its most advanced fab in Malta, N.Y. The $13 billion expansion of Fab 8 includes compliance with the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations. The company hopes to ultimately scale secure production to the 12-nm FinFET process node.
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Imagination Technologies announced family of GPUs for automotive applications |
7/9/2020 |
Imagination is investing heavily in graphics chips customized for cars. This comes as the auto industry is finally catching up with the computer era and getting better displays for dashboard information. The flashy screens are selling points in modern cars, and they’re even more important in self-driving cars and smart cars.
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Samsung's Q2 earnings beats estimate |
7/8/2020 |
In its earnings guidance, the South Korean tech giant expected its operating profit at 8.1 trillion won (US$6.7 billion) for the April-June period, up 22.7 percent from 6.6 trillion won a year ago.
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Taiwan's Research Institute to transfer memory technology to chip makers |
7/7/2020 |
The technology transfer is meant to assist Taiwan's chipmaking industry in making progress in the development for AI-enable IoT products, said ITRI. FRAM enables low-power consumption for IoT and portable electronics devices, while MRAM provides a strong performance advantage for applications such as self-driving vehicles and data centers.
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Nanya posts DRAM revenue growth in Q2 |
7/7/2020 |
Revenue for the second quarter climbed 14.4% sequentially to NT$16.49 billion. Nanya's cumulative 2020 revenue through June totaled NT$30.91 billion, rising 29.8% on year.
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Intel resumes shipment of server chips to China |
7/7/2020 |
Today Inspur told Chinese press that Intel had resumed shipments, an important development given that the company bought $2.5 billion in chips from Intel in 2019, and we followed up with Intel. We also pinged Nvidia and AMD for comment on the status of their business with Inspur.
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