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| Apple: No more reliance on Intel chips |
4/16/2018 |
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Media sources reported that technology giant Apple is planning to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Macs with its own chips starting in 2020.
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| China delays Qualcomm's bid for NXP |
4/16/2018 |
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It is understood that the turbulent trade relationship between the United States and China have been prolonging the Chinese regulatory reviews over the two negotiations.
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| Consumer prices rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier |
4/13/2018 |
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Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices ticked up 0.2 percent in March and 2.1 percent from a year ago. That was the biggest annual increase for core prices since February 2017.
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| Nanya hit record revenue again |
4/13/2018 |
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Nanya's revenues for March 2018 were also the highest levels since January 2007. A ramp-up of 20nm chip output and rising ASPs led to the positive results.
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| Global NAND capacity are rising |
4/12/2018 |
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DRAMeXchange in its January 2018 report already warned of a potential oversupply of NAND flash memory in 2019, as major chip vendors carry out their expansion projects.
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| Adata Technology gives robust revenue report |
4/11/2018 |
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Revenue last month jumped to NT$3.25 billion (US$111 million) from NT$2.06 billion in February, with about 68 percent coming from DRAM products, Adata said in a statement.
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| 2019 will be the recognition of Optoelectronics |
4/11/2018 |
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The new optoelectronic chips are designed to speed up data transmission to and from conventional processor chips in a way that will also reduce energy consumption in chip-to-chip communications by 95 percent and could cut overall energy usages by large data firms by up to 50 percent.
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| MediaTek patents 56G SerDes |
4/11/2018 |
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MediaTek now offers a comprehensive SerDes portfolio ranging from 10G, 28G, 56G through to 112G available for ASIC designs. MediaTek's ASIC services and portfolio cover a wide range of applications such as enterprise and hyper scale data centers, ultra-high performance networking switches, routers or compute applications as well as 4G and 5G service provider (backhaul) infrastructure, AI/deep-learning applications.
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| Hock Tan predicts autonomus network in the future |
4/11/2018 |
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embedded intelligence the network will be able to sense internal situations, analyze information, conduct self-learning, adapt to environments and predict what will happen, according to Hock Tan, CEO of Singapore-based Broadcom.
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| Snapdragon 670 chip to have 6 cores |
4/10/2018 |
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According to previous reports, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 670 will be a 10nm chip running at a maximum operating frequency of 2.6GHz (2,611MHzz).
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| ISM’s Customers’ Inventories Index registered lower |
4/6/2018 |
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“Customers’ inventory levels remain too low for the 18th consecutive month and are at their lowest level since July 2011, when the index registered 40.4. This month’s low level, coupled with continued strong expansion in backlogs, indicates strong demand will continue for the foreseeable future in spite of the slowing in new orders expansion,”
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| Samsung becomes the largest U.S. patent holder |
4/5/2018 |
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Samsung is now the largest patent holder in the United States, boasting a portfolio of 75,596 valid patents in the country as of January 1. According to global patent journal IAM,
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| Image sensor designed for low lights |
4/5/2018 |
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ON Semiconductor has added to its range of image sensors for extreme low-light applications such as medical and scientific imaging, and commercial and military applications for high-end surveillance.
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| Intel sold Wind River unit |
4/5/2018 |
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Wind River makes embedded operating systems and other software that keeps aircraft flying and industrial robots humming.
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| DRAM supply continue to be tight |
4/4/2018 |
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On the whole, contract prices of PC DRAM have seen an average increase of around 5% in 1Q18 compared with 4Q17. Nitrogen supply issue at Micron Memory Taiwan may prolong current tight supply in DRAM market, and is expected to push up contract prices of PC DRAM by 3% in 2Q18 compared with 1Q18.
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