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| Micron Technology to enter volume production of 1x nm DRAM |
2/22/2019 |
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Micron has entered volume production of 1xnm DRAM chips at both its factory sites in Taoyuan (northern Taiwan) and Taichung (central Taiwan), and is gearing up for commercial production of 1ynm-made chips in the second half of this year.
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| Toshiba Memory claims highest-capacity NAND memory chip |
2/22/2019 |
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The Toshiba device stores 4 bits per cell and achieves bit density of 8.5 Gb/mm2, more than 40% better than a 512-Gb TLC 3D NAND device also described at the ISSCC Tuesday by Toshiba and its partner in NAND development and manufacturing, Western Digital.
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| Qualcomm wants to lead U.S. with X55 5G modem |
2/21/2019 |
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"I believe that the X55 is Qualcomm's continuation of their leadership in 5G. The fact that this is Qualcomm's second generation of chips and it is already shipping to customers means that they're considerably further ahead of the competition,"
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| DRAM contract prices dropped 15% in Q2 |
2/21/2019 |
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Continued oversupply in the DRAM market will result in "significant price declines" for the memory chips in the first half of 2019, said DRAMeXchange. End-market demand stays weak coupled with high inventory levels at PC and other device OEMs.
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| Intel put MRAM design into production |
2/21/2019 |
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Intel said it has used a "write-verify-write" scheme and a two-stage current sensing technique to create 7Mb perpendicular STT-MRAM arrays in its 22FFL FinFET process.
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| Plenty of work remains to be done on 5G |
2/21/2019 |
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“From early trials, [operators] realized it can work, but they are not getting all they would like. There is room for improvement, especially to deploy 5G cheaply in a wide variety of places.”
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| SK hynix keeps waste out of landfills |
2/20/2019 |
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The semiconductor supplier has diverted 90 percent of the waste from its main corporate campus in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, away from landfills and toward alternative disposal methods such as reuse or recycling.
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| Globalfoundries denies Chengdu fab. closure rumor |
2/20/2019 |
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Globalfoundries has named Americo Lemos as its China country manager on the heels of speculation about layoffs and a likely shutdown of the foundry's joint-venture wafer fab in Chengdu.
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| Intel quietly acquired graphic chip design firm in India |
2/19/2019 |
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The company is acquired mainly for the skill sets of its workforce rather than products or services. According to sources, Intel has acquired around 100 engineers of Ineda for their skills in graphics, an area where the US giant has chalked out ambitious plans.
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| Semiconductor wafer demand continue to rise |
2/19/2019 |
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Semi’s latest Global 200mm Fab Outlook has announced that they anticipate a 14% increase in production, with the addition of 700,000 200mm wafers from 2019 to 2022. Semi has reported that the increase will bring their 200mm wafer fab capacity to 6.5 million wafers per month.
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| China offers $200 billion semiconductor purchase |
2/18/2019 |
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China’s high economic-planning company is proposing to extend U.S. semiconductor gross sales to China to a complete over six years of $200 billion. Underneath the proposal, nonetheless, that enhance can be generated partially by transferring meeting operations of U.S. semiconductors from third nations like Mexico and Malaysia to China, permitting these merchandise to be counted as U.S. exports relatively than these of different nations.
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| Adata Technology saw sales of its SSD products increase while DRAM fell |
2/18/2019 |
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Adata said previously the company expects demand for DRAM products to pick up starting the second half of 2019 along with the gradual easing of Intel's CPU supply shortages. Meanwhile, the penetration of SSDs in terminal devices is expected to mount along with continued NAND flash price falls, the company indicated.
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| U.S. industrial output fell |
2/18/2019 |
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The Federal Reserve said Friday that that the manufacturing component of the index dropped 0.9 percent last month, reversing a 0.8 percent gain in December.
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| Nvidia suffers the fall from Crytocurrency |
2/18/2019 |
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Nvidia reported declining sales for its most recently concluded quarter, as the company continues to grapple with a "crypto hangover" caused by the decline in cryptocurrency mining.
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| 200mm wafer production accelerates |
2/15/2019 |
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Strong 200mm wafer growth mirrors sound capacity demand seen across various industry segments. From 2019 to 2022, for example, wafer shipments for MEMS and sensors devices are expected to increase 25% while shipments for power devices and foundries are forecast to jump 23% and 18%,
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| Taiwan foundry houses found business unpredictable for next quarter |
2/14/2019 |
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The order visibility for 12-inch wafer foundry services by TSMC and UMC has reportedly remained opaque for the second quarter, with sizes of orders received also shrinking slightly. And only their 8-inch wafer foundry fabs can maintain high capacity utilization rates in the short term.
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| NAFTA 2.0 talk continue |
2/14/2019 |
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President's pact would give pharmaceutical companies 10 years' protection from cheaper competition in a category of ultra-expensive drugs called biologics, which are made from living cells. Shielded from competition, critics warn, the drug companies could charge exorbitant prices for biologics.
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