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| U.S. government agencies bans Huawei and ZTE |
8/15/2018 |
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The ban was signed into law today by President Trump as part of the Defense Authorization Act and will go into effect over the next two years.The bill covers anything that is a “substantial or essential component of any system,” as well as tech that is used to route or view user data.
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| TSMC achieved 3.9% sales gain regardless of virus incident |
8/14/2018 |
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TSMC disclosed previously a computer virus stalling part of its production earlier in August would impact up to 2% of its third-quarter 2018 revenues. At its most-recent investors meeting, the company estimated third-quarter revenues at between US$8.45 billion and US$8.55 billion.
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| AT&T moved in to wholly own Otter Media |
8/13/2018 |
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Otter Media will become a part of AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit. Tony Goncalves, who was named Otter's chief executive earlier this year, will continue to run the company, reporting to WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey.
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| United Microelectronics (UMC) July sales up 7.4% |
8/13/2018 |
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UMC's consolidated revenues for July 2018 represented a 12.2% on-year increase. Consolidated sales for the first seven months of 2018 totaled NT$90.7 billion, rising 3.4% from a year earlier.
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| Qualcomm to pay $89 million to settle antitrust case in Taiwan |
8/13/2018 |
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In 2017, the commission fined Qualcomm for refusing to sell chips to mobile handset makers that wouldn’t agree to its patent-licensing terms and for cutting iPhone maker Apple Inc a royalty discount in exchange for the exclusive use of Qualcomm’s modem chips in the past.
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| Intel accounts $1 billion on AI chip sales in 2017 |
8/10/2018 |
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Intel has increasingly been depending on its sales to data centers, which provide behind-the-scenes computing power for mobile and web-based apps. Those apps, in turn, rely on artificial intelligence for features like photo and speech recognition.
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| AI embedded SSD controller |
8/10/2018 |
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The goal is to highlight how machine learning can help applications accelerate with minimal network bandwidth and no host CPU processing.
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| Automotive startups got the lion's share of private investments |
8/10/2018 |
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Faraday Future, an electric vehicle startup, received $2 billion in private funding at mid-year. Go-Jek and Lyft, two ride-hailing services, got $1.5 billion and $600 million, respectively. Pony.ai raised $214 million, while Roadstar.ai got $128 million; both companies are involved in autonomous driving.
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| Yes, Chinese Semiconductors are on the tariff list ! |
8/9/2018 |
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(SIA) trade group estimates that about $6.3 billion per year worth of semiconductors and related products are in one of the two tariff tranches, with the majority of those on the list released Tuesday. Semiconductor related items include equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing, as well as diodes and other types of devices.
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| Toshiba post record quarterly profit after chip unit sales |
8/9/2018 |
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Toshiba said it posted a net profit of 1.02 trillion yen ($9.16 billion) for the April-June quarter, up from 50.33 billion yen a year before, as it booked 970 billion yen in gains from the deal to sell the world’s No. 2 producer of NAND chips.
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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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