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| Alibaba Group announced own RISC-V chip |
7/29/2019 |
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Alibaba on Thursday unveiled the Xuantie 910 processor based on an open-source design known as RISC-V that competes with the global standard developed by SoftBank Group Corp.’s ARM. The new processor supports connected devices and some artificial intelligence applications.
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| Intel heighten quarterly estimates |
7/29/2019 |
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Intel, which was the second chipmaker this week to beat analysts’ earnings estimates. On Tuesday, Intel had resumed some product sales to Huawei that comply with U.S. regulations. Tariff threats between the United States and China actually helped second-quarter sales by about $400 million, Intel executives said.
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| Apple to pay $1 billion for Intel modem unit |
7/29/2019 |
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Under the deal, about 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases. Combined with its existing portfolio, Apple will have 17,000 wireless technology patents, ranging from cellular communication standards to modems.
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| SK Hynix see profits down 89% from a year earlier |
7/26/2019 |
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SK Hynix' revenues and operating profits for the second quarter also represented sequential decreases of 5% and 53%, respectively. The memory chipmaker attributed the negative performance to "steeper-than-expected" price declines and slow demand recovery.
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| U.S. trade groups call on Japan to stop export control |
7/26/2019 |
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In the joint letter, the business groups expressed concerns about Japan’s recent export curbs on semiconductor-related materials shipped to Korea and urged the two countries to put out efforts for swift resolution to the issue.
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| Taiwan manufacturers are bootstraping into higher technology |
7/26/2019 |
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the country’s science and technology minister Liang-Gee Chen during Innovex,emphasized a desire to connect its startups with global innovation ecosystems, provide them with a platform for growth, and encourage its academics to spinout out technologies that enable an AI enabled world.
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| Robotaxi service is not goin to happen in 2019 |
7/26/2019 |
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“In order to reach the level of performance and safety validation required to deploy a fully driverless service in San Francisco, we will be significantly increasing our testing and validation miles over the balance of this year, which has the effect of carrying the timing of fully driverless deployment beyond the end of the year.”
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| UK to set tight rules for electronic waste |
7/25/2019 |
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Waste of electrical and electronic equipment, or WEEE, is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the EU. The UK alone produces 24.9kg of e-waste per person, compared to an EU average of 17.7kg
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| Gartner predict Semiconductor Sales to retreat |
7/25/2019 |
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Worldwide semiconductor revenues are forecast to total US$429 billion in 2019, a decline of 9.6% from US$475 billion in 2018, according to Gartner. This is worse than Gartner's previous estimate of a 3.4% drop.
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| Winbond went ahead to construct new Fab. |
7/24/2019 |
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Winbond Electronics on July 22 held a beam-raising ceremony for its new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. The new facility is on track to have Winbond's in-house developed 20nm process technology ready for commercial production by 2021.
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| Most CEO support Trump's position towards Huawei |
7/24/2019 |
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Huawei has partnered with a Chinese state-owned firm Panda International Information Technology on projects in North Korea over at least eight years.By doing so Huawei, which has used US technology in its components, may have violated US controls on exports to the isolated North Korea regime.
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| Apple is in talks to buy Intel’s modem chip business |
7/24/2019 |
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If the purchase happens, it would again underscore Apple’s increased willingness to consider large multibillion-dollar acquisitions with its war chest of $225 billion in cash and marketable securities.
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| Moore's Law is not likely to run out of steam with advanced architectures |
7/23/2019 |
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The slow decline of Moore’s Law has become a talking point for chip executives since 2013, when Henry Samueli said that Broadcom had been discussing it with its customers. Like others in the industry, Samueli also expressed optimism that engineers will leverage new architectures to drive performance gains.
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| Samsung put LPDDR5 memory into new phone design |
7/23/2019 |
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The 12-Gb LPDDR5 is approximately 1.3 times faster than the LPDDR4X mobile memory found in today’s smartphones; the LPDDR4X comes in at 4.2 Gbps. As part of a 12-GB package, the LPDDR5 can transfer 44 GB of data (the equivalent of 12 full-HD movies) in a second.
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| Renesas enhanced AI performance by using processor-in-memory (PIM) technology |
7/23/2019 |
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Renesas’ existing generation of AI inference accelerators, based on its dynamically reconfigurable processor (DRP) architecture, achieves in the order of 1TOPS/W, enough to enable real time image recognition at the end node. The new PIM technology is almost an order of magnitude better in terms of TOPS/W and could be the basis for implementing incremental learning at the endpoint.
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| Intel announced a significant partnership with SAP |
7/22/2019 |
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Intel plans to tune its Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory for SAP’s suite of applications.The multi-year partnership includes giving SAP early access to emerging Intel technologies and building a Center of Excellence.
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| Senate introduced bill to keep Huawei from trading U.S. patents |
7/22/2019 |
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Huawei is pressing Verizon Communications Inc. to pay licensing fees for more than 200 of its patents, the Journal has reported. The tactic is seen by some in Washington as retaliation against U.S. policy makers' crackdown on the Chinese firm, which is the world's biggest telecom gear maker and has become a central sticking point in the U.S.-China trade talks.
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| Vendors see rising MOSFET order for second half of year |
7/22/2019 |
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Brand vendors' new PCs and notebooks are set to become available in the third quarter, coming with next-generation CPU and GPU platforms that require more MOSFET chips. Many Taiwan-based MOSFET suppliers have already seen rising orders for the third quarter.
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| Nvidia recruited safety expert from Intel |
7/22/2019 |
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Nvidia this week snatched up Riccardo Mariani, formerly chief functional safety technologist at Intel Corp., and an Intel Fellow, to be its vice president of industry safety. The position is a new role for Nvidia, added to augment its “world-class safety team,” according to Nvidia. The goal is to institute “an overarching safety view across multiple domains and technologies.”
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