Home
News
Products
Corporate
Contact
 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

News
Industry News
Publications
CST News
Help/Support
Software
Tester FAQs
Industry News
Samsung put 100-layers V-NAND into production 8/7/2019
The 256Gb 3-bit V-NAND will be used to make SSDs for enterprise PCs and has been supplied to a global PC maker, the South Korean tech giant said. Samsung only need one etching step for the 100 layers of cells, and said it was the best product in the market in terms of speed, productivity, and power efficiency.
Microchip offers serial memory controller 8/7/2019
The SMC 1000 8x25G enables CPUs and other compute-centric SoCs to utilize four times the memory channels of parallel attached DDR4 DRAM within the same package footprint. The serial memory controllers are able to deliver higher memory bandwidth and media independence to these compute-intensive platforms with ultra-low latency.
5G to greatly benefit Enterprises 8/7/2019
According to Digital Trends, 5G will have much deeper benefits than simply what appears on the screen. Public infrastructure will be able to easily co-opt the technology and use it to pre-empt flooding, improve surveillance, and enhance health care through things like augmented reality (AR) facilitated physical therapy and precision surgery.
Intel's first 10nm CPU get mixed reviews 8/7/2019
The company remains on track to ship in notebooks by the end of the year. Originally, Intel aimed to ship its first 10nm notebook chips in late 2018.
Infineon offers LED driver with constant current flyback circuit 8/6/2019
The XDPL8210 offers much improved functional performance for efficient designs as well as low bill-of-material (BOM) for small system cost and high flexibility. It also offers improved reliability for a long driver lifetime. For advanced products, the built-in features enable much faster design cycles..
Data storage solution provider NetApp to double its R&D team in Taiwan 8/6/2019
The expanded R&D workforce will enable NetApp to roll out more collaborative efforts with local IT companies, Lin said. Foxconn Electronics, Quanta Computer and Inventec are NetApp's major ODM production partners in Taiwan
TSMC and AU Optronics are top filer of patents 8/6/2019
The world’s leading contract chipmaker filed 429 applications, an increase of 24 percent from a year earlier, while China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd filed 408, a 92 percent increase, the office said. Flat-panel maker AU Optronics Corp (AUO,) was second among local firms with 318 applications, up 30 percent, while IC designer MediaTek Inc and PC maker Acer Inc followed with 163 and 162, down 8 percent and 1 percent respectively,
Researchers created light sources that can evolve into quantum computer 8/6/2019
Quantum light sources leading to quantum sensors and transistors. While these are both still very much in the research phase, it’s worth highlighting these pieces of research to see where we could potentially address the needs of high-performance computing in many applications, including artificial intelligence (AI).
Despite latest slump, DRAM is still the largest chip market 8/5/2019
The DRAM market is expected to account for 17% of total IC sales in 2019, said IC Insights. DRAM sales accounted for 23.6% of the total IC market in 2018.
New low cost transceiver chip goes beyond 100 GHz 8/5/2019
frequencies are far higher than anything considered for 5G cellular communications, meriting the researchers' description of the device as "beyond 5G." Their ultimate goal is more ambitious than merely going beyond 5G; it's to create a technological path that will enable wireless systems to compete with fiber optics.
Qualcomm predicts 5G Smartphone by 2020 8/5/2019
lots of services were going to switch on and many OEMs were going to ship handsets in just a few months. The reality is only 1% of the smartphones that ship this year will support 5G, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.
EDA Industry experience strong growth in the middle of trade war 8/5/2019
First-quarter EDA revenue came in at $2.6 billion, up 16.3% compared to the first quarter of 2018. The four-quarter moving average of EDA sales — which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four quarters — increased by 6.1%, according to the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance.
Korean memory manufacturers feels the pinch on Japanese material export control 8/2/2019
South Korea-bound exports of the materials, including hydrogen fluoride gas and chemicals known as photoresists, now require government approval. No approvals have been granted since the dispute broke in early July, South Korean industry sources said.
Chipmakers are feeling the effects of the U.S.-China trade war 8/2/2019
Qualcomm disappointed Wall Street with its fiscal fourth-quarter forecast and warned of China-related headwinds for the next two quarters.
Startup InnoGrit debuted SSD controllers with embeded neural-network accelerator 8/2/2019
All of the chips support today’s 2D and 3D NAND up to QLC levels. They also support Toshiba’s new XL-Flash, a low-latency chip, but not rival Samsung’s Z-NAND.
How the U.S. won the Lunar Landing - Through electronics 8/2/2019
A 1962 decision to design the guidance computer using integrated circuit logic devices was among the first, decisive steps.
AMD quarterly numbers bring disappointment 8/1/2019
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.
Industry optimiztic on PC chip shipments 8/1/2019
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.
Samsung blame DRAM prices and Galaxy 10 sales for income drop 8/1/2019
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,
Mobile DRAM continue to drop 8/1/2019
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.
Apple is capable of making money from things that aren't the iPhone 7/31/2019
In further good news for Apple, its overall revenue was up for the quarter. In other words, Apple is capable of making money from things that aren't the iPhone faster than iPhone sales are falling. That is a major milestone for the company.
MediaTek announced its latest flagship processors, the Helio G90 7/31/2019
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
Rambus to acquire Northwest Logic, a specialist supplier of digital controllers 7/31/2019
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.
Qualcomm teams with Tencent on 5G games 7/31/2019
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.
Goldman Sachs expect a growth year for 2020 7/30/2019
The new targets from Goldman suggest another 3% appreciation through year-end, bringing the full-year gain to 24%, and another 10% increase in 2020.
 220  |  221  |  222  |  223  |  224  |  225  |  226  |  227  |  228  |  229 

CST Inc. Memory Tester DDR Tester
Copyright © 1994 - 2023 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved