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| Samsung's Q2 earnings beats estimate |
7/8/2020 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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| Slightly elevated levels of radioactivity detected in northern Europe |
7/6/2020 |
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The IAEA said the higher level of isotopes “is likely related to a nuclear reactor that is either operating or undergoing maintenance, when very low radioactive releases can occur.” It added in a statement that “the geographical origin of the release has not yet been determined.”
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| U.S. unemployment fell to 11.1% in June |
7/6/2020 |
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President Donald Trump said the jobs report shows the economy is “roaring back,” though he acknowledged there are still areas where “we’re putting out the flames” of the virus.
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| Researchers are fining ways to new skyrmion memory |
7/3/2020 |
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Magnetic skyrmions are self-contained stable spin fields that share some characteristics with particles. They can be only a few nanometres across, and in certain circumstances can be created, destroyed and manipulated with very little energy, leading to them being studied as a possible memory technology.
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| June PMI turns around |
7/3/2020 |
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Manufacturing index rose to 52.6 last month after registering 43.1 in May and 41.5 in April. Any reading below 50 signals that U.S. manufacturers are contracting.
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| Airbus to trim 15,000 jobs |
7/2/2020 |
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“With air traffic not expected to recover to pre-COVID levels before 2023 and potentially as late as 2025, Airbus now needs to take additional measures,” the company said in a statement.
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| Demand for household appliances chips increased |
7/1/2020 |
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought changes to people's daily life, spurring demand for notebook, 4K TVs and STBs creating stable flip-chip packaging business for backend firms.
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| Tesla warn of Q2 outlook |
7/1/2020 |
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Tesla is trying to avoid a quarterly loss despite its Fremont, California, factory being shut down for nearly two months due to coronavirus restrictions. The company also has a plant in China.
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