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SK Telecom turns to Xilinx FPGA for AI accelerator 8/20/2018
SKT is using Xilinx's Kintex UltraScale FPGAs to run its automatic speech-recognition (ASR) application to accelerate NUGU, its voice-activated assistant. According to SKT, it has been able to achieve up to five times higher performance in ASR applications when compared to GPUs
Purdue scientists combines transistor and laser on new FET 8/17/2018
The Purdue transistor and laser combination features a large on-current and a low off-current with a small subthreshold swing, which allows for increased speed and energy savings.
EDA giant Cadence Design to expand into Nanjing, China 8/17/2018
Nanjing is where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) operates a 12-inch wafer fab and a design service center.
Infineon to post and sell its IoT chips on Chinese e-commerce site 8/17/2018
The aim of the partnership is to speed up applications in scenarios such as smart homes and assist in the continuous improvement of JD’s cloud service platform.
Nvidia demonstrates ray tracing speed graphics card with GDDR6 8/17/2018
When it comes to truly realistic images, the gold standard has been ray tracing — where computers model the flight of light rays within a scene bouncing off surfaces where it gains surface color and texturing.
Job posting implies Apple looking at a health processor 8/16/2018
Job postings from Apple: “We are looking for sensor ASIC architects to help develop ASICs for new sensors and sensing systems for future Apple products,” one reads. “We have openings for analog as well as digital ASIC architects.”
3 more flaws found on Intel Xeon processor 8/16/2018
Intel released updates to address the issue and said new updates coupled those released earlier in the year will reduce the risk for users, including personal computer clients and data centers.
Turkey increased tariffs on certain U.S. products in retaliations 8/16/2018
The tariffs come a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would boycott U.S. electronic goods, singling out iPhones. Apple has 22 percent of the smartphone market in Turkey, where 11.4 million units were sold last year.
U.S. productivity growth at 2.9 percent 8/16/2018
The second-quarter acceleration was accompanied by a much smaller gain of 1.9 percent in the number of hours worked. The combination of stronger output and a smaller increase in hours worked led to the strong increase in productivity.
5G roll out in India to detlay 8/15/2018
Complete roll-out of 5G in India will be done by 2022. “5G won’t be driven by supply, it’ll be driven by demand and the rest of industry needs to wake up to this.”
DRAM industry increased its second quarter output to $25.69 billion 8/15/2018
DRAM prices rallied during the quarter as the supply stayed tight. Contract prices of most DRAM products grew around 3% sequentially on average in the second quarter, while prices of graphics DRAM chips surged by nearly 15% on quarter
Mouser is now a franchise distributor for Micron 8/15/2018
Mouser is now stocking the full range of Micron memory products including NAND, DRAM and DRAM modules, multi-chip packages, and Hybrid Memory Cubes based on TSV technology.
U.S. government agencies bans Huawei and ZTE 8/15/2018
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.
TSMC achieved 3.9% sales gain regardless of virus incident 8/14/2018
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.
Qualcomm plans manufacturing engineering center in Taiwan 8/14/2018
The investment is part of a set of mutually agreed settlement reached between the US chipmaker and the FTC over Qualcomm's alleged antitrust practice.
Tsinghua Unigroup acquires 30% of ASEN Semiconductors, an ASE company 8/14/2018
The sale aims to build a strategic partnership with Tsinghua Unigroup to help ASE Technology penetrate China’s fast-growing semiconductor market.
Facebook moved up effort to "connect the next billion" 8/14/2018
Facebook has long harbored ambitions of bringing internet to billions of people across the developing world for the first time — but it hasn't always gone smoothly.
AT&T moved in to wholly own Otter Media 8/13/2018
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.
United Microelectronics (UMC) July sales up 7.4% 8/13/2018
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.
Qualcomm to pay $89 million to settle antitrust case in Taiwan 8/13/2018
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.
DRAM product revenue to break $100 billion 8/13/2018
DRAM market will grow by more than 30% this year and is well on its way to surpassing the $100 billion mark.
6.66 million job openings in the U.S. 8/10/2018
The number of positions waiting to be filled increased by 3,000 to 6.66 million in June. Hiring fell to 5.65 million from 5.75 million.
Intel accounts $1 billion on AI chip sales in 2017 8/10/2018
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.
AI embedded SSD controller 8/10/2018
The goal is to highlight how machine learning can help applications accelerate with minimal network bandwidth and no host CPU processing.
Automotive startups got the lion's share of private investments 8/10/2018
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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