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| U.S. economy grew at a solid 3.2 percent |
4/29/2019 |
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GDP gain surpassed the 3 percent bar set by President Donald Trump as evidence his economic program is working. Trump is counting on a strong economy as he campaigns for re-election.
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| TSMC to add 6nm process offering |
4/26/2019 |
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N6 will have design rules that are 100% compatible with N7, allowing customers to directly migrate from N7,. In addition, N6 will increase logic density by 18% from N7 and provide a highly competitive performance-to-cost advantage. Finally, N6 will offer shortened cycle time and reduced defect density.
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| Leaked roadmap suggested Intel won't have 10nm CPU until 2022 |
4/26/2019 |
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Intel has since last year been giving the 2019 holiday season as the target date for 10-nm products, but the mobile roadmap calls for a 10 nm Ice Lake and Lakefield processors to be released on a limited basis beginning in the second quarter.
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| China denies involvement in industrial spying on GE |
4/25/2019 |
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The foreign ministry said charges against Xiaoqing Zheng, a former employee of GE's power division, and Zhaoxi Zhang, a businessman in northeastern China, appear to be a "common commercial case" that shouldn't be "over-interpreted and politicized."
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| Iran insist on defiant towards tighter sanctions |
4/25/2019 |
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The U.S. announced the sanctions in November but some countries got temporary waivers that allowed them to import Iranian oil. Washington now says those waivers—which primarily impact China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey—will expire May 2.
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| TSMC disclosed N5P process |
4/25/2019 |
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The N5P starting risk production next year could squeeze anther 7% in speed or 15% in power from N5 using the same design rules. The gains come in part from enhancements to a fully strained high-mobility channel. TSMC showed an N5 wafer with SRAM yields above 90% and logic yields above 80% from the first phase of its new Fab 18.
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| Boeing preparing St. Louis plant for renew government order of lagacy F-15 |
4/24/2019 |
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The Chicago-based company began ramping up its F-15 production line near St. Louis after the Air Force submitted a nearly $8 billion budget request last month that included eight F-15s next year and 72 in the following four years. The request came as a surprise to many since the U.S. military has moved toward stealth fighters, such as Lockheed Martin's F-35, in recent years.
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| GlobalFoundries to transfer East Fishkill fab to ON Semiconductor |
4/23/2019 |
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Less than four years after GlobalFoundries assumed ownership of IBM’s East Fishkill plant, ON Semiconductor, a technology company that supplies semiconductor products, is purchasing the East Fishkill site in a $430 million deal that comes with a $720 million investment into the site over the next 10 years.
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| Federal judge halted Trump's plan to renew coal mining |
4/23/2019 |
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U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Montana said Interior Department officials had wrongly avoided an environmental review of their action by describing it "as a mere policy shift." In so doing, officials ignored the environmental effects of selling huge volumes of coal from public lands, the judge said.
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| Chinese car buyers are attracted to new generation of Electric SUVs |
4/23/2019 |
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Two of China's biggest state-owned automakers unveiled models they said can travel 600 kilometers (370 miles) on one charge, or nearly double the range of global competitors. If that can be achieved, it would raise the standard for an industry trying to compete with gasoline models by defusing "range anxiety" or fear of being stranded with a dead battery.
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| U.S. will not renew sanction waivers to countries importing oil from Iran |
4/23/2019 |
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Mike Pompeo plans to announce that the administration will not renew sanctions waivers for the five countries when they expire on May 2, three U.S. officials said. It was not immediately clear if any of the five would be given additional time to wind down their purchases or if they would be subject to U.S. sanctions on May 3 if they do not immediately halt imports of Iranian oil.
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| Technology worker shortage hits Europe |
4/22/2019 |
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A shortage of skilled workers is the industry’s top business concern, according to IPC President and CEO John Mitchell. More than two-thirds of IPC companies indicate that a lack of skilled workers is constraining their ability to grow.
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