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| Carriers are hurdling to join the deployment of 5G |
9/19/2019 |
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As a reality check, the August “report card on 5G” from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) noted that despite “continued progress,” so far just 39 global operators have announced 3GPP-compatible commercial 5G services. The most recent ones include three operators in Kuwait, one in Bahrain, T-Mobile and Vodafone in Germany, Vodafone in the UK – and the prominent operator in the Maldives
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| IoT devices to dominate the Bluetooth market by 2024 |
9/18/2019 |
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According to the research firm, by 2024, IoT devices will represent 31% of total Bluetooth device shipments and 27% of total WiFi device shipments, up from 13% and 10%, respectively, in 2018. Key markets for Bluetooth are expected to be in beacons, asset management and personal trackers.
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| Sony Corp. rejects proposal to split its IC unit |
9/18/2019 |
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Sony's semiconductor business "is expected to create even more value going forward through its close collaboration with the other businesses and personnel within the Sony group," Sony President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said in a letter.
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| Qualcomm pay TDK $3.1 billion to buy out RF development JV |
9/18/2019 |
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Qualcomm and TDK worked together to expand the former’s expertise in developing RFFE parts that connect cellular modems to antennas, which have historically been separate components inside smartphones and other cellular devices.
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| Winbond launched LPDDR4X Mobile DRAM |
9/17/2019 |
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Winbond Electronics has been devoted to the development of the niche memory product market for many years. Winbond pays great attention to their customers’ needs and the development trend of new technologies, and has successfully developed a new generation of Mobile DDR products LPDDR4X to fulfill the needs.
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| Hauwei is open to licensing its 5G technology to U.S.-based manufacturers |
9/17/2019 |
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that he had met with reclusive Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and reported that Ren had made a startling offer: if the U.S. is concerned about potential security problems associated with Huawei equipment, then Hauwei would be open to licensing its technology to U.S.-based manufacturers.
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| China trade war affects IC design industry |
9/16/2019 |
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All top five global IC design companies fell in Q2 2019. Reasons cited are the US-China trade war, mounting inventory levels along the supply chain, and less-than-satisfactory global demand for consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, LCDs, TVs and servers.
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| Researchers at MIT forsee carbon nanotube to take over Silicon one day |
9/16/2019 |
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With silicon no longer following historical scaling trends, there’s been considerable research in beyond-silicon nanotechnologies. Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET)-based digital circuits offer one approach that promises substantial energy-efficiency benefits, but the inability to perfectly control intrinsic nanoscale defects and variability in carbon nanotubes has precluded the realization of very-large-scale integrated systems.
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| India has opportunity to expand on analog and mixed-signal design services |
9/16/2019 |
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Indian analog and mixed-signal design services firm Sankalp Semiconductor was acquired in an all-cash deal by HCL Technologies, one of the country’s leading IT outsourcing firms, for just over US$25 million. The acquisition is part of the latter’s strategic plans to expand into newer market domains and offer a wider range of services to its customers in the analog and mixed signal space.
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| Taiwan's semi industry success stories |
9/13/2019 |
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It was the first day after Lunar New Year in February 1974 when seven men gathered over breakfast at the Little Xin Xin Soy Milk stall in central Taipei and mapped out Taiwan’s foray into semiconductor manufacturing.
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| Memory is 43% of 2019 Capex spending |
9/12/2019 |
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Memory capex is forecast to account for 43% of total semi industry capital spending this year, down from 49% in 2018, according to IC Insights.
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| Apple's new phone has an A13 processor |
9/12/2019 |
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The chip has 8.5 billion transistors. Apple’s previous A12 processor had 6.9 billion transistors, which was about 60% more than the A11’s 4.3 billion transistors.
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| Winbond VP said Taiwan is benefactor of Korean/Japanese trade dispute |
9/11/2019 |
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Trade disputes between Japan and South Korea will likely result in fundamental changes to both countries' high-tech industry supply chains, while opening the door for enhanced cooperation between the Korean and Taiwanese high-tech sectors, according to Pei-Lin Pai, VP of technology R&D for Winbond Electronics.
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| AI in the Cloud market to double in 5 years |
9/11/2019 |
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AI chipset market is expected to grow from US$4.2 billion in 2019 to US$10 billion in 2024. Nvidia and Intel, the current leaders in this space, are being challenged by companies including Cambricon Technologies, Graphcore, Habana Labs and Qualcomm.
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| Startup offers algorithum to help design FPGA applications |
9/11/2019 |
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A complete application representation can be analyzed, partitioned, optimized and targeted to a variety of compute engines, including x86, Arm and RISC-V, and FPGAs. Input is HLL code that is generated into CQVM, then optimized and partitioned. The final result is compute executables from the partitioned CQVM.
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| China trade war slowing IC shipments |
9/11/2019 |
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YoY revenues of all top five global IC design companies fell in Q2 2019. Reasons cited are the US-China trade war, mounting inventory levels along the supply chain, and less-than-satisfactory global demand for consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, LCDs, TVs and servers.
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