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| Cray secured contract to build exascale computer |
8/15/2019 |
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El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 1.5 exaflops when it is commissioned in 2023. The estimated 30 MW system will use a combination of processors and accelerators to be chosen closer to its time of assembly.
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| CBS and Viacom finally strike merger deal |
8/14/2019 |
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The new company will be called ViacomCBS. Existing CBS shareholders will own about 61% of the combined company, with Viacom shareholders owning the remaining 39%.
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| Samsung to put 108-megapixel camera sensor to smartphones |
8/14/2019 |
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The Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX, which was designed in collaboration with Xiaomi, is a 108-megapixel smartphone camera sensor that Samsung says is the first to surpass the 100 million pixel milestone for phones. As well as producing high resolution photographs, the sensor can also shoot in 6K video (6016 x 3384) at 30 fps.
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| ASE to acquire factory building in Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
8/14/2019 |
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The new building, valued at NTY$2.326 billion (US$74.67 million) and located adjacent to its major manufacturing complex in Nanzih Export Processing Zone, will help ASE optimize its capacity allocation to strengthen the firm's overall development.
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| 5G deployment to cause up surge of memory demand |
8/14/2019 |
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Memory industry is expected to see a brighter prospect starting 2020 when 5G services kick off commercial runs driving the popularity of 5G terminal devices that will in turn generate strong growth for memory products, according to industry sources.
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| GlobalWafers remains conservative about sales outlook this year |
8/13/2019 |
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Some major clients have been cautious about placing orders despite the arrival of the peak season. The silicon wafer manufacturer also disclosed revenues fell 12.6% sequentially to a 17-month low of NT$4.48 billion (US$142.8 million) in July 2019.
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| Samsung found a source of photoresist through an Imec-JSR jv |
8/13/2019 |
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The Japan government has put restrictions on the export of photoresist to Korea as part of its trade war. It is thought that, because the Belgian facility has existed for sometime, it is not subject to Japan’s export restrictions.
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| Broadcom offers $10.7 billion in cash for Symantec |
8/13/2019 |
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he deal has all the hallmarks of Tan’s past acquisitions. A mature but troubled company is acquired. Its sales force, expenses and R&D budgets are significantly cut to focus on a few core products sold often at lower prices to undercut rivals.
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| Diodes to acquire Lite-On Semiconductor |
8/12/2019 |
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At the effective date of the transaction, each share of LSC stock will be converted into the right to receive NT$42.50 in cash, or US$1.37, as of June 30, 2019 without interest. The aggregate consideration will be approximately US$428 million. The price per share reflects a premium of 35% over LSC's 30-day volume-weighted average price.
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| Nasdaq-style tech board opens in Shanghai |
8/12/2019 |
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Of the first 25 companies listed, computer, communications and electronic equipment manufacturers held the lion’s share. They include eight specialty equipment makers covering chip, semiconductor, optical simulation, IoT and smart manufacturing. Six in the group are chip and semiconductor-related companies.
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| Japan re-open photoresist shipment to Korea |
8/9/2019 |
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Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon Thursday confirmed that Tokyo approved a Japanese vendor of photoresist, one of the three products subject to the export controls since July 4, to ship out the product to Korea after finding no risk of military use.
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| AMD use ROME to challenge Intel's server chip dominance |
8/9/2019 |
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Analysts said AMD’s Epyc 7002 series, aka Rome, likely will meet its goal of winning the company at least 10% of classic server sockets by next June, up from its low- to mid-single digit share today. To date, most of the gains AMD has made with its new Zen-based processors have been in desktops and notebooks
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| China showed 5G power at Mobile World Congress, Shanghai |
8/9/2019 |
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Exhibitors were showing user equipment (UEs), connectivity from the big players but also from a lot of emerging small-cell providers, lots of Internet of things (IoT) use-cases, also xR (VR/AR/MR) demonstrating immersive streaming to a group for interactive gaming — all of this 5G-based.
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| Japan’s Toshiba Corp is working hard to rebounce |
8/8/2019 |
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The Japanese conglomerate has been consolidating factories, cutting jobs, revamping the procurement method to compensate for the loss of the prized chip business, sold last year to plug a multi-billion-dollar balance sheet hole left by the collapse of its U.S. nuclear power unit.
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| Samsung put 100-layers V-NAND into production |
8/7/2019 |
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The 256Gb 3-bit V-NAND will be used to make SSDs for enterprise PCs and has been supplied to a global PC maker, the South Korean tech giant said. Samsung only need one etching step for the 100 layers of cells, and said it was the best product in the market in terms of speed, productivity, and power efficiency.
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| Microchip offers serial memory controller |
8/7/2019 |
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The SMC 1000 8x25G enables CPUs and other compute-centric SoCs to utilize four times the memory channels of parallel attached DDR4 DRAM within the same package footprint. The serial memory controllers are able to deliver higher memory bandwidth and media independence to these compute-intensive platforms with ultra-low latency.
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| 5G to greatly benefit Enterprises |
8/7/2019 |
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According to Digital Trends, 5G will have much deeper benefits than simply what appears on the screen. Public infrastructure will be able to easily co-opt the technology and use it to pre-empt flooding, improve surveillance, and enhance health care through things like augmented reality (AR) facilitated physical therapy and precision surgery.
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