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| Layoffs at SpaceX |
1/23/2019 |
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Last week, SpaceX announced that it will lay off 10% of its nearly 6,000 workers in an effort to become leaner. “This action is taken only due to the extraordinarily difficult challenges ahead and would not otherwise be necessary,” the company said.
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| PTI experienc boosted memory packaging business |
1/22/2019 |
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Prices for NAND flash chips had plunged by some 60% in 2018 and may fall further in 2019, but production capacities are still being expanded, with bit shipments to see an annual increase 39% in the year.
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| Toshiba Memory to go public sooner than later |
1/22/2019 |
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Toshiba Memory Corp advancing its IPO listing to the second half of 2019 from 2021 and enhancing cooperation with No. 3 player Western Digital (WD) to enforce capacity expansions.
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| U.S. manufacturer cut jobs as trade war goes on |
1/22/2019 |
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For many businesses, the tariffs are escalating costs, creating hardships and magnifying uncertainty. The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index plunged last month to its lowest point in more than two years partly because of the tariffs. And the Federal Reserve appears increasingly worried that damage from the trade war will undercut the economy.
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| JEDEC has new updated HBM Specifications |
1/21/2019 |
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Jedec Solid State Technology Association’s most recent update to the JESD235 HBM DRAM standard focuses on meeting the needs of applications in which peak bandwidth, bandwidth per watt, and capacity per area are critical metrics. Such applications include high-performance graphics, network and client applications, and high-performance computing.
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| 7nm order increased for 5G SoC |
1/21/2019 |
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Demand for 7nm fabrication processes is being driven by flagship devices rolled out by smartphone vendors, said Digitimes Research.
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| Trade War slumps China's industry and jobs |
1/21/2019 |
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A tariff war with Washington over Beijing's technology ambitions is adding to anxiety over job losses and tumbling sales of cars, real estate and consumer goods.
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| U.K. airport to purchase anti-drone system |
1/21/2019 |
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Heathrow and Gatwick announced they will be investing millions of pounds in anti-drone systems, which can detect and jam communications between a UAV and its operator.
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| Rambus acquired memory assets of Diablo Technologies |
1/18/2019 |
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For over ten years, Diablo Technologies was a pioneer in the development of NVDIMM technologies for high-speed, low-power, and low-latency bridging and switching products targeted at the server and storage markets. Having developed memory buffer and software solutions leveraging an all-Flash memory sub-system, Diablo Technologies enabled an architecture to rewrite the rules of data centre performance and economics.
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| Trade War delays Chinese plan on entering U.S. car market |
1/18/2019 |
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Yu acknowledged GAC's "uphill battle" to entering the U.S. market but he noted the company is making "steady progress." In addition to opening the design centers in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Detroit, he said it expects to have its North American sales company running by March. After that, GAC will start to establish a distribution network and build brand awareness in the U.S.
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| Photo Voltaic demand will reach a new high in India throughout 2019 |
1/18/2019 |
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In 2019, China and the United States will be the top two markets in the world, while India will be the country with the third highest PV demand and Japan the fourth. After 2019, India is the most likely to foresee a larger growth in demand thanks to its favorable environment and encouraging policies made by the local government.
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| LCD panel prices to decline starting Q2 2019 |
1/18/2019 |
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Increasing pressure from oversupply has resulted in a sharp decline in panel prices. Therefore, Samsung Display has strategically decided to allocate more capacity to QD-OLED TV production in advance. As the result, the stock-up demand for TV panels may arrive earlier than expected in 2Q19.
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| Nvidia aims at winning back the graphic market from AMD |
1/17/2019 |
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The collapse of the cryptocurrency mining market has left graphics card vendors with high inventories, and miners have been offloading their used cards in the second-hand market, resulting in a sharp sales drop in Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 2080Ti/2080/2070 graphics card.
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| Security lines at U.S. Airports increased to 3 hours long |
1/16/2019 |
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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport tweeted on Monday evening that it was experiencing "longer than usual wait times during peak travel" and advised passengers to "give yourself 3 hours to clear security."
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| RFID comes back alive with the rise of Industrial IoT |
1/16/2019 |
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Forecast to 2025' analysis that interconnectedness of devices has resulted in massive volumes of RFID data which needs to be managed and analysed. This has prompted RFID manufacturers to develop high-memory tags that can hold more information, software platforms with a business intelligence layer, as well as cloud-based solutions.
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| Intel partners with Redis Labs to advance 3DXPoint memory |
1/15/2019 |
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Redis Enterprise includes two usage modes for Optane-powered systems. Memory Mode prioritizes performance, and AppDirect mode prioritizes cost savings. "Using Memory Mode, Redis Enterprise-powered applications can achieve comparable performance to DRAM with significant cost benefits. Developers can achieve even greater cost savings using AppDirect mode with Redis Enterprise, while still delivering significantly faster performance compared to NVMe,"
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| Rigid-flex to drive PCB growth |
1/15/2019 |
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Rigid-flex boards will be increasingly needed to support production of ever-slimmer consumer electronic devices. Shipments of FPCBs for the iPhone X series almost double those for previous models, which has benefited Taiwan suppliers including Zhen Ding Technology (ZDT), Flexium Interconnect, and Career Technology.
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