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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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| China looks to EDA development to boost its IC design independence |
9/10/2019 |
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While the country is currently behind the United States in electronic design automation (EDA) software development, technology industry veterans in the academe suggest that the world’s second largest economy has an opportunity to catch up in this field.
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| Apple is facing steep challenges on its own 5G modem |
9/10/2019 |
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Apple is famous for its penchant for secrecy. Most of its leading technologies are proprietary that work within its own ecosystem. So, to be a modem leader, Apple has to fundamentally change its approach to technology development.
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| Major manufacturers are showing their 5G SOC |
9/10/2019 |
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Mobile processors with integrated 5G modems are the flavor of the week, as Europe’s equivalent of CES kicked off in Berlin with launches from Huawei, Samsung and Qualcomm.
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| EV benefits depends on proper management of the electrical grids |
9/9/2019 |
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Electric vehicle (EV) charging could create local constraints and stability problems on electricity grids and reduce the environmental benefits of electrification. Investment and infrastructure to support electric mobility will change significantly from one place to another.
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| China wants to build model city - Shenzhen |
9/9/2019 |
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Shenzhen is only 17 miles away from the port of Hong Kong, a key gateway for commerce between China and the west. Shenzhen's proximity to Hong Kong has made it strategically important for China’s ruling clique. Its significance.
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| Foundry business growth see slowing down |
9/6/2019 |
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“TrendForce thus expects the rebound in the semiconductor market during this year’s second half to be significantly weaker compared with the same period of the previous years”.
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| Rambus to buy Verimatrix for portfolio of security IP's |
9/6/2019 |
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As hardware-based security has become mission critical for protecting the SoCs and devices in demanding applications such as AI, Networking, IoT and Automotive, the integrated portfolio of products, which will combine the secure silicon IP and provisioning solutions from both companies, will create a comprehensive silicon-proven security IP offering.
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| When U.S. capitalism and Chinese state capitalism meets |
9/6/2019 |
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Perhaps Chinese workers can out-produce us. Maybe they are better workers. But the future of manufacturing is adding value, not mastering repetitive tasks that will soon be consigned to robots. The future of work is about advanced manufacturing, fixing the robots when they break down, and calibrating them when the assembly line slows.
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