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| CEO change at China DRAM factory |
7/23/2018 |
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Wang said during a public event in April that Innotron expects to roll out its 8Gb DDR4 engineering samples at the end of 2018 and 8Gb LPDDR4 products in the third quarter of 2019.
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| ASML to ship 50 EUV systems by 2019 |
7/20/2018 |
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Leading-edge semiconductor manufacturers include Samsung, Intel and TSMC are planning to use EUV in volume production beginning in the next year, though concerns remain about the availability of the EUV power source and other items in the EUV supply chain.
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| Investor funds U.K. software startup on record-and-replay technology |
7/20/2018 |
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Cambridge, U.K.-based Undo has developed a program execution capture and replay technology, allowing vendors of complex Linux applications to quickly diagnose severe software failures in test or in production and fix critical bugs that are impossible to reproduce by any other means.
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| China-based memory plants to start production |
7/20/2018 |
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YMTC disclosed previously the company had obtained its first orders for commercial production of over 10,00032-layer 3D NAND flash chips for use in 8GB SD memory cards. Jinhua said previously the company expects to have its first-generation DRAM production technology developed jointly with United Microelectronics (UMC) ready for production at the end of 2018.
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| Nanya see continue growth on DRAM |
7/19/2018 |
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DRAM demand looks healthy in the second half of this year, buoyed by demand from flagship mobile phones featuring artificial intelligence and facial recognition, data centers requiring bigger data storage and 4K television sets.
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| Commercial aircraft market hesitates on upcoming tarrif |
7/19/2018 |
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While Trump has said trade wars are "good and easy to win," aviation experts say American companies like Chicago-based Boeing will take the first hit because most of U.S. aerospace production goes to foreign buyers.
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| TSMC expects revenue growth through Q4 |
7/18/2018 |
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TSMC's revenues are expected to increase at a moderate pace sequentially in the third quarter before reaching an all-time high in the fourth quarter. Shipments for the new iPhones will remain a significant contributor to the foundry's sales performance in the second half of 2018.
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| F35 tactical fighter at bargan prices |
7/18/2018 |
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The goal has been to reduce the cost of an F-35 to $80 million by 2020 so the price will be comparable with fourth-generation fighter jets. The F-35, a fifth-generation jet, is considered to be one of the most technologically advanced military jets in the world.
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| What's next now that the ZTE ban is lifted |
7/17/2018 |
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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), moderator of the Semicon West panel will list critical technologies, many rooted in semiconductors, along with broad ideas for how to promote and protect them with a collection of investments, security measures and international collaborations.
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| Apple contributes to renewable energy fund in China |
7/17/2018 |
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"Apple’s mission has never wavered. We are here to change the world... it’s why we continuously strive to do more with less—reducing our impact on the Earth we all share, while expanding and redefining the possibilities ahead,"
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| Apple is expected to require mass number of 3D sensors |
7/17/2018 |
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Three new iPhone models and two new iPad versions set to be released in late third-quarter 2018 are very likely to incorporate the face ID function, significantly driving up demand for key optical component VCSEL.
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| Google lose chip design guru to Facebook |
7/17/2018 |
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FaceBook hired Shahriar Rabii to be a vice president and its head of silicon. Rabii previously worked at Google, where he helped lead the team in charge of building chips for the company’s devices, including the Pixel smartphone’s custom Visual Core chip.
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| Airbus is on-hold waiting for details on Brexit |
7/16/2018 |
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The pan-European aerospace giant is one of Britain’s biggest manufacturers, employing 14,000 people at 25 sites, including 6,000 at Broughton in north Wales. It also supports more than 100,000 jobs in the wider supply chain and spent £5bn with more than 4,000 UK suppliers last year.
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| SoftBank certifies MediaTek NarrowBand IoT for Japan |
7/16/2018 |
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MediaTek's technology enables IoT devices to work on batteries. As a result of these tests, MediaTek's NB-IoT chipset has been validated for use on the SoftBank network, paving the way for low-power connected devices on Japan's leading wireless network.
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| UMC see boost demand from China |
7/13/2018 |
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UMC's China-based fab expansions, coupled with its takeover of MIFS, will allow UMC to expand its overall production capacity by 1,277,000 8-inch equivalent wafers, or 16.9%, to a total of 8,839,000 units in 2019
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