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| Samsung 16Gb LPDDR4X mobile DRAM into mass production |
7/27/2018 |
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Following the latest progress, Samsung Electronics said it plans to have DRAM chips applied with the second-generation 10-nano level processing technology, which will make up 70 percent of its DRAM portfolio.
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| SK Hynix hit record revenue in Q2 |
7/27/2018 |
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Growing shipments of the company's DRAM and NAND flash memory chips led to sequential increases of 19% and 28%, respectively, in revenues and operating profits during the quarter.
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| Qualcomm given up merger with NXP |
7/27/2018 |
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We weighed that risk against the likelihood of a change in the current geopolitical environment, which we didn't believe was a high probability outcome in the near future.
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| India threaten to deregister iPhones |
7/26/2018 |
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has warned the US smartphone maker Apple, that if it doesn’t allow a TRAI’s Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app on its phones, it would ask telecom companies like Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance’s Jio to deregister iPhone from their networks.
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| DARPA select 8 companies as government IC developer |
7/26/2018 |
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Chip giants IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm and a little-known foundry called Skywater were among eight companies announced as prime contractors in four research projects sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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| Qualcomm has a 5G "modem-to-antenna solution" |
7/25/2018 |
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Now these types of modem-to-antenna solutions, spanning both mmWave and sub-6 spectrum bands, make mobile 5G networks and devices, especially smartphones, ready for large scale commercialization.
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| Grounds for argument in appealing ATT/Warner merger |
7/24/2018 |
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The Justice Department ask a federal appeals court to swiftly consider their case against the telecom giant, government lawyers said Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia erred by rejecting “basic bargaining economics” when he ruled to allow the $85 billion deal in June.
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| Ending DACA to affect Texas economy |
7/24/2018 |
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It would damage business operations, deprive them of much needed work expertise and cost the state of Texas tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues. Texas and six other states filed the lawsuit in May asking the court to "immediately rescind and cancel all DACA permits currently in existence.
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| AT&T named additional grounds for 5G testing this year |
7/24/2018 |
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The company is adding Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, and Oklahoma City to the buildout for mobile 5G. The cities join Dallas, Waco and Atlanta as part of a dozen metros set to be revealed this year.
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| HTC withdraws from India market |
7/23/2018 |
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HTC may look at re-entering Indian smartphone market as an online exclusive brand, but that will be only after it’s able to turnaround sales globally as the brand is struggling in several markets.
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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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