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| Sign of manufacturing growth slowing |
8/2/2018 |
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Manufacturing expanded in July as the PMI registered 58.1 percent, a decrease of 2.1 percentage points from the June reading of 60.2 percent. This indicates strong growth in manufacturing for the 23rd consecutive month, led by continued expansion in new orders, production and employment.
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| Fed left interest alone for now |
8/2/2018 |
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The Fed has already raised rates two times this year in March and June. It signaled at the June meeting that it expected to raise two more times in 2018. Many analysts believe those hikes will occur in September and December.
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| A new method of 3D printing battery electrodes |
8/1/2018 |
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In normal batteries, 30-50% of the total electrode volume is unutilised. The new method overcomes this issue by using 3D printing where we create a microlattice electrode architecture that allows the efficient transport of lithium through the entire electrode, which also increases the battery charging rates.
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| Demand for Android chip slows down |
8/1/2018 |
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Foundry houses are experiencing a slowdown in orders from Android smartphone chipmakers, who will observe sales performance of new iPhones for a while before launching new smartphone chipset solutions, according to industry sources.
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| GDDR6 found its way into AI and Networking |
8/1/2018 |
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Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that must be responsive to a driver’s actions immediately, while autonomous vehicles need high-performance memory to process the vast amounts of real-time data. Other emerging applications include augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Finally, video is always hungry for memory as 4K gets more widely adopted and 8K nips at its heels.
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| TSMC leads patent filing in Taiwan |
7/31/2018 |
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Data compiled by the office showed that TSMC filed 345 invention patent applications in the past six months, up 5 percent from a year earlier.
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| Custom MMIC offers new LNA/Phase Shifter combo for satellite C-band receiver |
7/30/2018 |
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The LNA, designsted CMD270P3, is suitable for EW and communications receivers where high performance, small size and low power consumption are needed. The CMD174 die is also a GaAs MMIC 5-bit phase shifter that operates from 3 to 6 GHz and provides 0 to 360 degrees of monotonic phase coverage, with a LSB of 11.25 degrees.
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| SK Hynix has extra profit to spend |
7/30/2018 |
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The $121 billion global memory chip industry has enjoyed an unprecedented boom since late 2016, with profits surging to record highs and margins rising above 70 percent thanks to disciplined production after years of consolidation.
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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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