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| Global NAND shipment down 3% |
5/30/2018 |
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Looking ahead to 2H18, stock-up demand related to the next iPhone release and the year-end busy season will stabilize prices of NAND Flash products. In fact, the NAND Flash demand from OEM has been constrained by surging prices for almost one year, so the latest development in price trend will spur OEMs in the PC and smartphone markets to upgrade the storage specifications of their upcoming products. In turn, the demand in the NAND Flash market will return to a state of healthy growth.
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| Samsung plans 3nm for 2021 |
5/30/2018 |
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Samsung's GAA transistors are field-effect transistors (FET) that feature a gate on all four sides of the channel to overcome the physical scaling and performance limitations of FinFETs, including supply voltage.
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| UMC to expand China fab. |
5/28/2018 |
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United Semi will build additional production capacity according to customer demand. UMC expects to see its overall revenues generated from the China market grow at a CAGR of 15% from 2018 to 2020.
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| Qualcomm put all AI developments under one group |
5/28/2018 |
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The reorganization reflects Qualcomm's doubling down on embedded artificial intelligence, which it argues can improve privacy for applications like voice-controlled speakers and save energy wasted sending information to the cloud.
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| Chinese foundries work hard to transition towards sub-10nm process |
5/25/2018 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Huali Microelectronics, and memory foundry specialist Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) are all gearing up for transition to sub-10nm process technology with respective deployments kicking off this year.
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| The chip world has to go “heterogeneous integration” (HI) |
5/25/2018 |
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HI is “a holistically integrated approach” that involves system design, algorithms, and software, together with different types of silicon dice such as SoC, DRAM, flashes, A-to-D/D-to-A, power management, security, and reliability control dices.
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| Wyoming bets on blockchain economy |
5/24/2018 |
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In March, Gov. Matt Mead signed four blockchain-friendly bills that arguably make the least-populated state friendlier to the technology than any other.
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| European economy still weak |
5/24/2018 |
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Purchasing managers' index for the eurozone — a broad gauge of business activity — fell in May to an 18-month low of 54.1 points from 55.1 the previous month.
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| A shortage on 200mm fab. capacity |
5/23/2018 |
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Amazingly, 200mm fabs are expected to remain viable at least until 2030 or so. As before, the challenge is to procure 200mm equipment, which is still in short supply.
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| STMicro steps up enviromental saving effort |
5/23/2018 |
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Absolute energy consumption decreased by 12% compared to 2016 in normalized terms. By the end of 2017, 26% of energy purchased by ST came from renewable sources. More than 91% of waste was reused, recovered or sent for recycling
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| Samsung Foundary to setup R&D |
5/22/2018 |
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Samsung opened the R&D center under the crucial device solution arm, which oversees the company's critical chip business. The new center is focused on bolstering Samsung's capabilities in the foundry business.
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| Facebook agreed to use Qualcomm's 60GHz WiFi |
5/22/2018 |
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Facebook has agreed to use 60GHz technology from Qualcomm Technologies that harnesses unlicensed spectrum, and the pair will work with other partners — such as telecom operators and manufacturers — to ready the system for deployment.
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