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| AMD quarterly numbers bring disappointment |
8/1/2019 |
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AMD expects revenue of about $1.8 billion, plus or minus $50 million for the three months ending September. Analysts on average had expected revenue of $1.95 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
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| Industry optimiztic on PC chip shipments |
8/1/2019 |
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Taiwanese chipmakers are expected to kick off shipments of new chip solutions in the third quarter to support specs upgrades on new PC and notebook models. Among the new offerings are Type-C chips, touch controller ICs, fingerprint identification chips, MEMS microphone chips, MOSFET chips, audio ICs, and Wi-Fi chips, all boasting higher prices and gross margins.
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| Samsung blame DRAM prices and Galaxy 10 sales for income drop |
8/1/2019 |
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Last quarter, Samsung also reported that its operating profit had dropped by more than half. The same issues that hit its earnings during the first quarter of this year have continued, including lower memory prices as major data center customers adjust their inventory,
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| Mobile DRAM continue to drop |
8/1/2019 |
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Disappointing smartphone sales continue to drag down the overall mobile DRAM demand. The global smartphone unit production is forecast to decline nearly 5% in 2019, DRAMeXchange indicated.
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| MediaTek announced its latest flagship processors, the Helio G90 |
7/31/2019 |
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The chips include an octa-core CPU clocked at up to 2.05GHz, which uses the same ARM Cortex-A76 and A55 cores as the latest flagship processors from Qualcomm and Huawei. MediaTek’s chip also includes a Mali G76 GPU with speeds of up to 800MHz and support for up to 10GB of LPDDR4x RAM
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| Rambus to acquire Northwest Logic, a specialist supplier of digital controllers |
7/31/2019 |
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Northwest Logic’s high-performance, high-quality and silicon-proven digital IP controller cores have been optimized for use in both ASICs and FPGAs and its interface IP solutions consist of a physical interface (PHY) and companion digital controller making it possible to optimize the transfer of data between chips and electronic devices.
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| Qualcomm teams with Tencent on 5G games |
7/31/2019 |
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Qualcomm is the largest supplier of mobile phone chips that power many Android devices. With a market capitalization of about $453 billion, Tencent is China’s largest mobile software company, and owns WeChat, the nearly ubiquitous social network.
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| 7 and 5nm are good business at TSMC |
7/30/2019 |
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The company said that demand is so strong that it is preparing to raise its full-year capital expenditure to more than $11 billion, the high end of its target, and that it may need to increase 2019 capex to accelerate the installation of tools for 5nm production next year.
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| Maxim offers medical micro chip sensors |
7/29/2019 |
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The MAX86161 in-ear heart-rate monitor and its MAX30208 digital temperature sensor are designed to deliver clinical-grade medical results while shrinking size and power requirements that are key to delivering compact mobile devices.
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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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