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| Semiconductor sales continue to grow |
10/3/2018 |
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The three-month average of chip sales in August grew to a record $40.16 billion, up 1.7% from July and up 14.9% compared to August 2017, according to the SIA.
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| DRAM prices expected to retreat |
10/2/2018 |
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“DRAM products have begun to see a weak price trend since 3Q18 after the price growth of nine consecutive quarters,"
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| ST Micro FingerTip Touch Screen Controller found in Xiaomi handsets |
10/2/2018 |
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“ST’s industry-proven FingerTip TSC technology enables advanced multi-touch UI on many devices with a single-chip solution, with high and uniform sensitivity on all panels, including curved screen areas and new AMOLED displays, making it perfectly suited for the latest smartphone designs”
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| Intel tunes up Capex spending |
10/2/2018 |
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The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker has added an extra $1 billion to its capital equipment budget this year, increasing output from existing facilities in the U.S., Ireland and Israel.
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| Facebook reports massive data breach |
10/1/2018 |
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The social media giant says it doesn’t know exactly what kind of information has been compromised. However, in an updated statement yesterday, it did admit the hack affected those who use Facebook to log into other accounts.
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| U.S. reached "New NAFTA" with Canada and Mexico |
10/1/2018 |
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the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, is a major step toward completing one of Trump’s signature campaign promises and gives the president a concrete policy win to tout on the campaign trail this fall.
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| Microsoft wants people to switch to Skype 8.0 |
9/28/2018 |
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Microsoft plans to stop supporting the desktop version of Skype 7.0, or Skype Classic as it’s fondly called by dedicated users, on November 1st, while the mobile and tablet versions will be cut off on November 15th.
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| Wind power outpaces fossil fuel in Texas |
9/27/2018 |
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Strong winds helped Texas set a record for wind generation at 17,541 MW on Feb. 19. Meanwhile, the use of natural gas has declined rapidly from 167 million MWh (48 percent) in 2015 to 139 million MWh (39 percent) in 2017, according to ERCOT.
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| China cuts tariff on importing tools from non-U.S. companies |
9/27/2018 |
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The tariff cut, effective Nov. 1, applies to 1,585 types of goods including construction equipment, industrial machinery, paper products and building materials. It gave no indication the reductions would apply to U.S. goods on which Beijing has imposed additional taxes of 5 to 25 percent.
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| How business are fighting cyber attack? |
9/26/2018 |
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Cybersecurity ranks among four global risk factors highlighted by the World Economic Forum for 2018. In the United States, spending on cybersecurity by companies has more than doubled over the past eight years, to $66 billion.
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| Macronix said tight supply to remain with high end NOR chips |
9/25/2018 |
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Supply of high-end NOR flash memory chips is to remain tight for the remainder of the year due to growing demand from the medical, automotive and industrial segments. PC DRAM chip prices would likely fall 2 percent quarterly in the final quarter of this year, ending nine quarters of price hikes, while prices of NAND flash memory chips might face a steeper quarter-on-quarter decline of 10 percent.
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| Comcast bids $40 billion for UK's Sky TV Services |
9/25/2018 |
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The deal — which will now be taken to Sky shareholders for their consideration — would enable Philadelphia-based Comcast to access millions of homes in Europe through Sky. With 31,000 employees, Sky sells satellite-TV and high-speed internet services to 23 million subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland.
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