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| PC and Tablets shipment to continue its down trend |
3/14/2019 |
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IDC (Framingham, Mass.) predicts that combined shipments of traditional PCs and tablet will decline to 391.1 million units in 2019, down 3.3% compared to 2018. Combined shipments of the devices also declined in 2018, despite growth in the commercial PC market, according to the firm.
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| U.S. wholesale prices up slightly |
3/14/2019 |
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The producer price index — which measures price changes before they reach the consumer — rose 0.1 percent in February, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
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| U.S. durable goods order up 0.4 percent |
3/14/2019 |
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Orders for durable goods rose 0.4 percent in January, led by a 15.9 percent rise in orders for commercial aircraft, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The category that serves as a proxy for business investment rose 0.8 percent after two months of declines. It was the biggest gain since a 1.5 percent July bump.
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| Intel report regains semi revenue lead in Q4 2018 |
3/13/2019 |
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Samsung's five quarters of dominance in the semiconductor revenue charts came to an end in Q4 2018 with Intel grabbing the top spot, claims an IHS Markit report. Intel's semiconductor sales revenue hit $18.4 billion during the quarter, compared to $15.8 billion for Samsung.
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| China set agressive growth target at People's Congress Conference |
3/13/2019 |
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The country's top economic official, set this year's growth target at 6 to 6.5 percent, reflecting determination to shore up a cooling, state-dominated economy and prevent politically dangerous job losses. Slightly below last year's 6.6 percent growth, a three-decade low, it would be among the world's strongest if achieved.
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| U.S. Millitary picked winged space ship design for its space defense system |
3/13/2019 |
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which launched an experimental space plane program in 2013, recently settled on a winged design that would be propelled by a version of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR-22 engine originally used as the main engine for the American space shuttle.
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| Demand for servers could revive free fall DRAM prices |
3/8/2019 |
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DRAM market will remain in an oversupply situation through the first half of second-quarter 2019, said the sources. Nevertheless, demand for servers is expected to start picking up between the end of the second quarter and the third quarter, which may also start lifting DRAM prices.
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| DRAM prices sank |
3/8/2019 |
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PC DRAM are on pace to decline by 30% in the first quarter, the steepest decline in a single quarter since 2011, according to DRAMeXchange, a market research firm that tracks memory chip prices.
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| Huawei sue U.S. for unfairly banned from market |
3/8/2019 |
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The irony was not lost on me. Think about it: Here’s the Chinese company, not the U.S. company, suing the United States over Congress’s violation of the U.S. Constitution. According to Huawei, Congress broke constitutional principles on the separation of powers, and the act of singling out an individual or group for punishment without a trial is unconstitutional.
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| Analog Device offers up and down converter for 5G millimeter wave bands |
3/7/2019 |
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Each upconverter and downconverter is highly integrated, comprising I (in- phase) and Q (quadrature-phase) mixers with on-chip programmable quadrature phase- shifter configurable for direct conversion to/from baseband (operable from DC to 6 GHz) or to an IF (operable from 800 MHz to 6 GHz).
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| Samsung ships embedded MRAM at commercial level |
3/7/2019 |
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MRAM technology is non-volatile, meaning data is not erased even without electricity like NAND Flash, but it can still process data as fast as volatile DRAM and is considered a next-generation memory technology. eMRAM has writing speeds that are a thousand times faster than eFlash as it doesn't require an erase cycle before writing data and can overcome the latter's scalability issues.
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| Graphic cards in oversupply |
3/7/2019 |
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With the dissipation of the cryptocurrency mining fad, graphics card players have begun cutting product prices in a bid to clear out excess inventory at the expense of profitability.
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| Evidence of downfall semi market seen |
3/6/2019 |
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Chip sales fell sharply in January on both a sequential and annual basis, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization. It was the first year-to-year decline in chip sales for any month since July 2016.
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| Trump ends preferential trade program with India and Turkey |
3/6/2019 |
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U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer announced Monday that India and Turkey will within 60 days no longer qualify for a zero-tariffs status that is given to some poor countries to help them grow. The decision came at U.S. President Donald Trump's direction.
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| Korea chip export hit 19-month low |
3/5/2019 |
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Chip exports tumbled 23.3 percent on-year to US$7.42 billion in January, accounting for 16 percent of the country's total exports, according to the data from the trade ministry and the Korea Customs Service.
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| Trade war negotiation continue |
3/5/2019 |
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In the United States, business groups and lawmakers fear that Trump will settle for a deal that doesn't require China to change its sharp-elbowed business practices.
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| What is stalling the IoT industry ? |
3/5/2019 |
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IoT products built on diverging connectivity technologies, communication protocols and system-level applications remain problematic. The insecurity of devices is a lingering concern.
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| IoT devices need to get smart too |
3/5/2019 |
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Internet of things (IoT) devices need more smarts to make decisions rather just shipping data to be crunched to the cloud — this means that more memory is required without increasing its footprint.
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