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| Demand for 5G peripheral chips to skyrocket |
12/3/2019 |
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Taiwan-based IC designers are gearing up to cash in on the growing demand for high-speed, high-performance peripheral chips including Type-C interface chipts, USB 4.0 chips, diverse ASICs and server ICs, driven by the upcoming commercialization of 5G services.
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| Taiwan Nuvoton Technology to buy Panasonic semiconductor unit |
12/3/2019 |
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Nuvoton, which is a subsidiary of memorychip maker Winbond Electronics Corp, said the acquisition of PSCS would generate greater value for the customers and shareholders of both companies, while increasing its presence in the global semiconductor industry through greater scale and volume of semiconductor solutions.
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| New startup's 4D imaging sees through walls |
12/3/2019 |
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Vayyar claims it has designed a small, sensor-based chip that, with its 72 transmitters and 72 receivers, tracks and maps everything without a camera. It detects obstacles and monitors people’s location, movement, height, posture and vital signs wirelessly, in all lighting and weather conditions, and in real time. A key differentiator is its ability to “see” through walls, closed doors, and other solid objects.
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| Amid trade tension, RISC-V Foundation is moving headquarters from the U.S. to Switzerland |
12/3/2019 |
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The RISC-V Foundation’s CEO Calista Redmond said she wants to ensure that universities, governments and companies outside the United States can maintain access to and develop the open-source RISC-processor core technology. She said that its members, which include Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductors, Huawei and Alibaba, are concerned about possible geopolitical disruption.
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| Examine accuracy of quantum computers |
12/2/2019 |
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"A quantum computer is only useful if it does two things: first, that it solves a difficult problem; the second, which I think is less appreciated, is that it solves the hard problem correctly. If it solves it incorrectly, we had no way of finding out. So what our paper provides is a way of deciding how close the outcome of a computation is to being correct."
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| NAND-based eMMC memory found in older Tesla Model S, X units are wearing out |
12/2/2019 |
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The problem with the embedded eMMC chips is that they regularly update Tesla’s vehicle logs, and over time, the storage medium begins to lose space and thus will have to overwrite new data over the old. These constant updates wear out the Flash memory faster than normally expected, which ultimately leads to failure.
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| Dell sales fell due to Intel chip shortage |
11/29/2019 |
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Intel said last month that demand for its processors used in PCs was outstripping its ability to add capacity, prompting it to rely on contract manufacturers to ease shortage.
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| MediaTek forms 5G alliance with Intel |
11/29/2019 |
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In the meantime, MediaTek has entered into an alliance with Intel to provide 5G modems for use in laptop computers. In August this year, Apple said it would pay about $1 billion to acquire Intel’s smartphone modem business, signaling that Apple aims to design its own silicon for 5G.
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| ADAS and AV have parallels, the two are not directly related |
11/29/2019 |
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“ADAS and Autonomous have been, of necessity, on very different development paths, typically with different teams,” And it is becoming apparent that most carmakers cannot afford to keep these parallel projects alive at the same time.
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| Carbon nano-tube challenge Silicon when it breaks 100 GHZ RF barrier |
11/27/2019 |
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Reported in a paper published this month, “Wafer-scalable, aligned carbon nanotube transistors operating at frequencies of over 100 GHz," it added the milestone ‘eclipses’ the performance — and efficiency — of traditional RF CMOS technology ubiquitous in modern consumer electronics. That includes cell phones, where the superior performance could boost 5G wireless and other mmWave technologies.
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| EU funds project for Advanced Packaging |
11/27/2019 |
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The Internet of things generates demand for faster connectivity and expanded sensor capability. To meet the required performances, multiple chips are integrated into one package, together with optics (sensors) and photonics (interconnects).
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| Voice command to take a new dimension in the smart home |
11/26/2019 |
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Today, the voice communications revolution is in the midst of a new quantum leap, as new classes of smart devices make it possible for artificial intelligence (AI) to extract meaning from sound and give people new ways to interact with their world in a more intuitive way.
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| Sigfox announced tracking network with improved geolocation accuracy |
11/26/2019 |
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Sigfox described a PAN as a private network sitting on the Sigfox public network. While the official reason is that it gives customers the option of accounting for their network connectivity as either capex or opex, Sigfox executives also indicated that it gives some customers the extra assurance that they have their own dedicated network, with the associated assurances about data privacy and security.
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| South Korea president calls for silicon wafer independence |
11/25/2019 |
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he Moon administration has redoubled a push to foster South Korea's production of industrial materials, components and equipment since Japan's export control imposed in early July. South Korea is seeking to rely less on Japan for the supply of key items.
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| Micron see healthy demand trend in DRAM |
11/25/2019 |
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“What’s happening now is that the demand growth is actually greater than the supply growth. As a result, the supply and demand balance is starting to improve,”
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| China claims to supply 4% of global memory needs in 2020 |
11/22/2019 |
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There is, of course, no way for outsiders to know in advance how many chips a wafer will produce, so the effect on the world memory market of these Chinese wafers could be either minimal or, if yields are good, could actually represent 4% in IC unit terms.
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