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| Memory market ASP predicted to drop 40% |
6/20/2019 |
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DRAM and NAND revenues hit a record high of around $160 billion in 2018, for a CAGR of 32% between 2016 and 2018. However a hit to demand and over-capacity have hit revenues and profits.
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| Winbond to continue investment to build a 12-inch fab in Kaohsiung |
6/19/2019 |
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Winbond is to continue with its NT$355 billion (US$11.3 billion) investment to build a 12-inch fab in Kaohsiung to meet rising customer demand. Construction began in October last year. The factory is to start mass production in 2021 using 20 nanometer technology
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| Eye control TV for future vision |
6/19/2019 |
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The initial hope is that the system will make it easier for people with physical disabilities to enjoy television — but that’s just one part of Comcast’s bigger plan.
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| Samsung to ride on M&A to grow non-memory business |
6/19/2019 |
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“It’s impossible to expect organic growth to become the top player in this field,” Kang (president of the system LSI business of Samsung’s device solutions division) said. “We will consider both small and big M&As to secure talent.”
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| 2nd day cash register blackout at Target |
6/17/2019 |
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The retail giant went down for a second day in a row. Many stores were only taking cash and gift cards. It comes after Target suffered a global point-of-sale machine outage on Saturday. Checkouts were down for more than two hours.
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| China May Industrial Output suffers |
6/14/2019 |
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China’s industrial output growth slowed to a more than 17-year low of 5% in May, well below expectations, in the latest sign of weakening demand in the world’s second-largest economy as the United States ramps up trade pressure.
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| SEMI predicts IC industry to grow 20% by 2020 |
6/14/2019 |
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Memory sector spending alone is expected to account for a disproportionate share of the 2019 falloff, dropping 45%, but should stage a strong recovery of 45% to US$28 billion in 2020, SEMI indicated.
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| Qualcomm to invest in Taiwan IC industry |
6/14/2019 |
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Qualcomm has made significant efforts to support academic research and has helped realize some research projects in Taiwan, Hsu said. Qualcomm's efforts will help boost the production value of Taiwan's networking/communications sector to NT$600 billion (US$19.07 billion) annually, plus an additional NT$200 billion for the foundry and back-end semiconductor sectors
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| Intel to turn New Mexico plant into optronics |
6/14/2019 |
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Now, the Rio Rancho site is front and center in developing new technologies that go far beyond Intel’s traditional focus on computer processing units, or CPUs, for personal computers and lap tops, Edgerly said. The local plant has become a key corporate cog in the design and production of next-generation components to immensely speed processing capacity in everything from data centers to smart buildings and cars.
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| OPEC Oil output fell to five-year low |
6/13/2019 |
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Production from the 14-nation producer club fell by 236,000 barrels per day last month to 29.88 million bpd, according to independent sources cited by OPEC in its monthly report. It was the first time OPEC pumped below 30 million bpd since June 2014.
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| Broadcom samples its first 7-nm network switch chip |
6/13/2019 |
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The Trident 4 family, which spans switches with 2- to 128-terabits-per-second aggregate bandwidth, is aimed at business networks that need a variety of management features. The 21 billion transistor chip packs up to 256 50G PAM4 SerDes and manages up to 5 billion packets per second in a single chassis.
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| Qualcomm has chosen Samsung Electronics to make next flagship chipset |
6/13/2019 |
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Reportedly, Samsung foundry for the Snapdragon 865 is expected to commence at the end of 2019. The chipset will be manufactured on the 7 nm ultra-violet (EUV) process. While TSMC used the manufacturing process first in 2018, Qualcomm reportedly believes that Samsung's tech is more advanced than TSMC's.
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| AMD's Ryzen 3000 gaming processors has 12 cores and costs less than half the price of competing chip |
6/12/2019 |
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“It’s all about gaming, because we believe that the gaming market is a phenomenal market,” Su said. “We are one of the very, very few companies that can bring what’s needed to the gaming market that we love, for every category of gaming. Gamers are some of the toughest people to please. They have extreme requirements. They want everything. They want fast framerates. They want incredible quality. They want extremely responsive. And they want it, frankly, on every platform. Do we care about gaming? We absolutely care. And we are going to win in gaming.”
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| Japan’s Tokyo Electron joins ban to supply technology equipments to China |
6/12/2019 |
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“We would not do businesses with Chinese clients with whom Applied Materials and Lam Research are barred from doing businesses,” the executive said, referring to the top U.S. chip equipment firms. “It’s crucial for us that the U.S. government and industry see us as a fair company,”
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| Chinese designers will likely stay away from U.S. components for decades to come |
6/12/2019 |
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Some analysts believe that it is U.S. suppliers who will feel the pain most acutely as China responds to the ban on U.S. companies selling chips and other components to Huawei by redoubling efforts to become self-reliant and placing heightened emphasis on sourcing components from suppliers based in Europe and elsewhere in Asia.
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| Foxconn says it can continue to manufacture iPhone outside of China |
6/11/2019 |
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Head of Foxconn’s semiconductor business group, Young Liu, said, “25 percent of our production capacity is outside of China and we can help Apple respond to its needs in the U.S. market.” “We have enough capacity to meet Apple’s demand,” Liu said at an investors’ conference.
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