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| Holitech builds factory in India to supply Xiaomi components |
8/8/2018 |
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The local manufacturing is likely to start in the first quarter of 2019, where Holitech Technology will manufacture compact camera modules (CCM), thin film transistor (TFT), capacitive touchscreen module (CTP), flexible printed circuits (FPC), and fingerprint sensor locally at the Andhra Pradesh facility.
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| T-Mobile reverses back to basic prices instead of giving free Netflex |
8/8/2018 |
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Starting Friday, customers can get T-Mobile Essential, a $60-a-month plan with unlimited data and standard-definition video. A second line will cost $30, and additional lines are $10 if enrolled in an auto-payment plan. The Essential offer is $10 less than the company's current unlimited plan.
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| Semiconductor industry need colaborations in IoT enviroment |
8/8/2018 |
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highly fragmented IoT market covering broad end applications makes it challenging for a single semiconductor company to own the complete solutions. So how can they participate in this growing market? They can start by building an ecosystem of partners and enabling these partners with a digital sales platform.
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| Winbond answered to EE Times Asia email interview |
8/7/2018 |
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We have an existing complete family of serial NOR flash products at 1.8V and 3V ranging from 512Kb through 512Mb densities. We are the first company in the flash memory industry to offer a brand new family of the lowest voltage products at 1.2V.
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| Semiconductor sales rise 20% |
8/6/2018 |
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Growth of more than 20% for the first half of the year is no small achievement, particularly since 2017 semiconductor sales of $412 billion set an all-time high. The most recent WSTS forecast, released in June, calls for chip sales to increase 12.4% this year.
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| Tesla readying its own AI chip for autonomus driving |
8/3/2018 |
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The Tesla computer, otherwise known as “Hardware 3,” it’s a Tesla-built piece of hardware meant to be swapped into the Model S, X and 3 to do all the number crunching required to advance those cars’ self-driving capabilities.
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| Advance sensors are the key to IoT applications |
8/3/2018 |
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3D sensing technology can be well applied to various fields. 3D sensors are now mainly used for facial recognition, replacing touch ID for smartphone unlocking and mobile payment. Besides smartphones, long-range outdoor cameras, short-range VR (virtual reality) glasses, and low-luminance face recognition inside cars.
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| NAND market see oversupply |
8/3/2018 |
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Average selling price of NAND flash is expected to decline by 10 percent in the third quarter and another 10 percent in the fourth quarter.
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| Sign of manufacturing growth slowing |
8/2/2018 |
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Manufacturing expanded in July as the PMI registered 58.1 percent, a decrease of 2.1 percentage points from the June reading of 60.2 percent. This indicates strong growth in manufacturing for the 23rd consecutive month, led by continued expansion in new orders, production and employment.
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| Fed left interest alone for now |
8/2/2018 |
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The Fed has already raised rates two times this year in March and June. It signaled at the June meeting that it expected to raise two more times in 2018. Many analysts believe those hikes will occur in September and December.
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| A new method of 3D printing battery electrodes |
8/1/2018 |
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In normal batteries, 30-50% of the total electrode volume is unutilised. The new method overcomes this issue by using 3D printing where we create a microlattice electrode architecture that allows the efficient transport of lithium through the entire electrode, which also increases the battery charging rates.
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| Demand for Android chip slows down |
8/1/2018 |
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Foundry houses are experiencing a slowdown in orders from Android smartphone chipmakers, who will observe sales performance of new iPhones for a while before launching new smartphone chipset solutions, according to industry sources.
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| GDDR6 found its way into AI and Networking |
8/1/2018 |
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Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that must be responsive to a driver’s actions immediately, while autonomous vehicles need high-performance memory to process the vast amounts of real-time data. Other emerging applications include augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Finally, video is always hungry for memory as 4K gets more widely adopted and 8K nips at its heels.
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