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| NAND sales reportly down 23.8 percent |
6/3/2019 |
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Disappointing demand for smartphones and servers during the fourth quarter of 2018 has prompted OEMs to start adjusting their inventory levels since 2019, DRAMeXchange said.
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| TI,s Templeton said there are opportunities in China |
6/3/2019 |
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“We still think that there’s opportunity to grow in China – grow with our customers in China; we’ll invest accordingly,” Templeton said at the investor conference. “We think it’s more opportunity than risk. Is it different today than it was five years ago".
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| Next Samsung phone may drop all buttons and connectors |
5/31/2019 |
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Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 10 may finally ditch the headphone jack that it's held onto for so long. Additionally, the report states that Samsung may also drop all physical buttons from the Galaxy Note 10, including volume and power keys, opting instead to use "capacitive or pressure-sensitive areas".
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| Rapid expansions propels China to No. 2 PCB maker |
5/31/2019 |
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Most Taiwan makers are wary of their Chinese rivals' rapid expansions. DSBJ, for instance, has managed to score annual revenues of over US$1 billion within two years by acquiring US-based FPCB maker Mflex and Hong Kong's PCB assembler Multek.
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| AMD goes into 7nm laptop CPU with hlep from TSMC |
5/30/2019 |
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The company used to rely on GlobalFoundries Inc for chips. However, the US firm in August last year said that it would indefinitely put on hold its development of 7-nanometer technology and technologies beyond that, making TSMC the sole foundry for AMD’s processors.
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| Trump send $16 billion to farmers affected by trade war |
5/29/2019 |
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the first of three payments is likely to be made in July or August and suggested that U.S. negotiators may be weeks away from settling a bitter trade dispute with China. The latest bailout comes atop $11 billion in aid Trump provided farmers last year.
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| 3D NAND is becoming a challenged market |
5/28/2019 |
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Currently, Intel is evaluating its 3D NAND business amid losses in this market, and is mulling over the idea of finding a new NAND partner or exiting the market, analysts said. No decision has been reached. Meanwhile, it’s unclear if YMTC will ship its initial 3D NAND products this year, as previously planned.
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| 6 Space Initiatives suuported by NASA |
5/28/2019 |
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>NIAC funds cutting-edge concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions, enable new capabilities, or significantly alter current approaches to launching, building and operating aerospace systems. NIAC Phase II awards are worth as much as $500,000 for two-year studies to further develop Phase I concepts.
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| USB flash demand continue to grow |
5/28/2019 |
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“There are also people who would rather keep their information not on their computer but on something that they control more.” One scenario might be to archive a large amount of data on a drive and then place it in a safety deposit box.
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| TSMC will continue supply to Hwawei |
5/28/2019 |
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TSMC said that after careful consideration, it will maintain its shipments to Huawei's chip arm HiSilicon throughout this year. The world’s biggest foundry noted that any impact to one client could result in gains for another client.
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| Researchers tried replacing semiconductor wiring with graphene transmission line |
5/24/2019 |
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Due to the dense integration and high speed of semiconductor devices, the resistance of metal wires—in which signals among devices are transmitted—has increased geometrically, reaching the limit of permissible current density. To create the next generation of devices, carbon-based nanostructures such as graphene and carbon nanotubes have been proposed as substitutes for existing metal wires.
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| Company offers super barrier rectifier (SBR) diodes for automotive applications |
5/24/2019 |
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Patented and proprietary technology have been designed to significantly reduce power loss and lower operating temperatures in automotive applications. When used as a recirculating diode in DC-to-DC buck-boost converters for automotive daytime running light (DRL) applications, these devices can improve system efficiency by up to 5% while reducing operating temperatures by up to 5°C.
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| IBM wants to commercialize quantum computer in 5 years |
5/24/2019 |
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Starting its R&D on quantum computing as early as in 1996, IBM released a 5-qubit quantum computer in 2016 and unveiled the world's first 20-qubit system, dubbed IBM Q System One, at CES 2019, Morimoto said, disclosing that the company will soon launch higher qubit quantum computers.
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| IC Insight preditts urn around in Q3 |
5/23/2019 |
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Looking back to the mid-1970s, IC Insights cannot identify a period where the IC market declined for more than three quarters in a row.
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| U.S. Court ruled Qualcomm breached antitrust laws |
5/23/2019 |
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"Qualcomm's licensing practices have strangled competition in the CDMA and premium LTE modem chip markets for years, and harmed rivals, OEMs, and end consumers in the process," US District Court Judge Lucy Koh said in her judgment.
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| Lattice announced added security features on FPGA |
5/23/2019 |
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“Our customers in a whole variety of areas are starting to worry a lot about security of their hardware,” said Gordon Hands, Lattice’s director of product marketing. “Traditionally, people have thought of computer security as being a software issue; they were worried about viruses, now people are starting to think about it at the hardware level.”
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