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| Winbond launched LPDDR4X Mobile DRAM |
9/17/2019 |
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Winbond Electronics has been devoted to the development of the niche memory product market for many years. Winbond pays great attention to their customers’ needs and the development trend of new technologies, and has successfully developed a new generation of Mobile DDR products LPDDR4X to fulfill the needs.
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| Hauwei is open to licensing its 5G technology to U.S.-based manufacturers |
9/17/2019 |
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that he had met with reclusive Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and reported that Ren had made a startling offer: if the U.S. is concerned about potential security problems associated with Huawei equipment, then Hauwei would be open to licensing its technology to U.S.-based manufacturers.
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| China trade war affects IC design industry |
9/16/2019 |
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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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| Researchers at MIT forsee carbon nanotube to take over Silicon one day |
9/16/2019 |
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With silicon no longer following historical scaling trends, there’s been considerable research in beyond-silicon nanotechnologies. Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET)-based digital circuits offer one approach that promises substantial energy-efficiency benefits, but the inability to perfectly control intrinsic nanoscale defects and variability in carbon nanotubes has precluded the realization of very-large-scale integrated systems.
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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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