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| Intel plans to build Optane Technology Center in New Mexico |
9/30/2019 |
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Optane is a new advanced memory technology designed to speed moving data between memory and a central or main processor, boosting performance for the user, according to sister publication Portland Business Journal. The Santa Clara, California-based tech giant said the new technology offers solutions for cloud, artificial intelligence and network edge applications.
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| 5G to drive Flash demand in 2020 |
9/30/2019 |
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Kou of Silicon Motion said that his company expects stable shipments of NAND flash storage chips in the fourth quarter of 2019 amid rising demand and is optimistic about business prospects for 2020 as demand from the smartphone and IoT segments will both be significantly stoked by 5G commercialization.
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| Intel to launch advance memory to its Optane platform next year |
9/27/2019 |
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Intel said it has four generations of Optane DC Persistent Memory and SSDs in the pipeline. The second generation Optane DC Persistent Memory has been dubbed the Barlow Pass, while the Optane SSD will be called the Alder Stream. Intel will also start shipping a 96-layer 3D NAND in the fourth quarter and launch a 144-layer QLC, or 4-bits per cell, 3D NAND next year,
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| U.K. startup offers IoT devices unforgeable identities |
9/27/2019 |
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The company said it uses the most advanced techniques in cryptography and quantum physics to address the growing challenges of end-to-end IoT security. Using its quantum driven secure chip (QDSC), Crypto Quantique (CQ) said it enables devices to regenerate keys without secure storage, and also to identify themselves to remote servers without a previous trust relationship or shared key being needed.
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| Wave Computing quietly swapped out CEO after only 4 months |
9/27/2019 |
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Wave’s website now shows that Art Swift, who became Wave’s CEO last May, is already gone. It lists Sanjai Kohli as the new CEO. Swift said, “I had a disagreement with the [Wave] board on a short-term fund-raising strategy.” He declined to elaborate.
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| Toshiba Electronic offers photo-relay for ATE applications |
9/26/2019 |
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The TLP3407SR’s small S-VSON4T package has a mounting area that is smaller than the current VSONR4 package and is the industry’s smallest. It supports size reductions in equipment like probe cards, or mounting of more photorelays.
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| Vesper thinks always-on microphones don't have to be a power drain |
9/26/2019 |
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Vesper’s ZeroPower Listening (ZPL) technology uses the piezoelectric effect, first discovered by French physicists Paul-Jacques and Pierre Curie, to make the acoustic transducer operate as an acoustic switch. When a soundwave hits a piezoelectric cantilever, it moves the cantilever. This motion creates a voltage via the piezoelectric effect. This voltage is sensed by a very low-power comparator circuit, which sends a wake signal to the rest of the system.
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| Cree to build $1 billion silicon carbide fab in New York State |
9/25/2019 |
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When completed in 2022, the nearly 500,000-square-foot facility in Marcy, near Utica, will be the world’s largest silicon carbide fabrication facility. State officials say the factory is expected to employ 600 workers within eight years. The workers will make an average salary of $75,000.
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| Semi Industry looking forward to a 4% rebounce |
9/25/2019 |
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Malcolm Penn, chairman and CEO of industry analyst Future Horizons, assured attendees that industry fundamentals were sound, and after a fall of around 15% in 2019, the industry will rebound with around 4% revenue growth to $414 billion in 2020.
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| Does the 737 MAX case uncovered "profit ahead of reliability"? |
9/25/2019 |
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Competitive pressures have extended to technologies ranging from botched robotic surgery to runaway autonomous vehicles. As more horror stories emerge, might the technology pendulum swing back toward a greater emphasis on reliability and safety?
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| Memory prices start to stablize |
9/24/2019 |
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The price of three-dimensional high-spec NAND rose for two months in a row, while the most widely used memory DRAMs halted their price fall in August for the first time since September 2018.
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| Wireless charging is here to stay |
9/24/2019 |
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The more machines, gadgets we have, the more cables we need to connect them to the grid. Or not? With wireless charging you can easily get rid of tangled charging cables that have become a real issue in our life in the past couple of years.
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| We are heading into monster chip of complex SoC design |
9/23/2019 |
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It’s not only big datacenter artificial intelligence (AI) chips, but also autonomous vehicles such as cars, trucks and drones; they are self-landing, reusable rockets; they are medical devices carrying out remote diagnostics; and they are connected machine tool controllers supporting smart manufacturing.
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| Semiconductor industry heading for a rebounce |
9/23/2019 |
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Future Horizons, assured that industry fundamentals were sound, and after a fall of around 15% in 2019, the industry will rebound with around 4% revenue growth to $414 billion in 2020.
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| Foxconn wants to become a full-solution provider |
9/20/2019 |
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Foxconn's goal is to become a full-solution provider that covers segments ranging from IC to software design. The group is also set to vertical integrate all its existing resources and deployments in fields such as semiconductor equipment, packaging and testing, foundry, IC design, system integration and channel, and to push for a modularized or even systemized platform.
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| Merger and Acquisition trend re-ignited |
9/20/2019 |
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Semiconductor M&A activity strengthened in the first eight months of 2019 with the combined value of about 20 M&A agreement announcements reaching $28.0 billion for the purchase of chip companies, business units, product lines, intellectual property (IP), and wafer fabs between January and the end of August.
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