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| Intel to put gamer's processor into laptops |
4/4/2018 |
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Intel is expanding PC gaming industry with new laptops that can provide desktop-like gaming performance and virtual reality on the run. Overall, the 8th Gen Core i9 is 29 percent better in performance compared to the previous generation 7th Gen Core i7.
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| Nvidia's Huang: Let's make alliance but not war |
4/4/2018 |
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Addressing the looming trade war between Washington and Beijing at the conclusion of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose last week, Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang simply said "there cannot be a war".
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| Imagination has a new CEO |
4/4/2018 |
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Currently Chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance Dr. Li is a well-known figure in the semiconductor industry and has over 30 years of industry experience. Recently he was chairman, CEO and president of Spreadtrum Communications and chairman of RDA before becoming Co-President at Tsinghua Unigroup.
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| SK Hynix GDDR6 controller production ready in 3 months |
3/30/2018 |
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SK Hynix’s GDDR6 memory controller is said to feature a bandwidth speed of 16Gbps and it comes in two capacity variants: 8Gb and 16Gb. The improvements that will come with GDDR6 will indeed make it significantly better than the older GDDR5 memory controller – especially in terms of efficiency.
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| 2017 chip growth revised to 21.7% |
3/30/2018 |
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Alongside record industry growth, Intel, which had led the market for 25 years, was supplanted by Samsung as the leading semiconductor supplier in the world."
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| Samsung break grounds to build new NAND fab in XIAN |
3/29/2018 |
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The South Korean tech giant will invest $7 billion in the new line that is expected to be completed next year. It will produce V-NAND memory chips, which are in very high demand from Chinese vendors.
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| What is Intel up to in memory? |
3/28/2018 |
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The company would try to push into non-volatile memory products for storage and -- in the case of 3D XPoint -- a replacement for DRAM in certain data center workloads.
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| Continue to see tight foundary capacity this year |
3/28/2018 |
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Taiwan MCU supply chain sources said the 8-inch wafer fabs in Taiwan and China will see their capacities stay short of demand for a long period amid the rampant increases in market demand for IoT (Internet of Things) chips.
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| Toshiba deal hit roadblock with Chinese regulators |
3/27/2018 |
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The opinions of Chinese customers such as PC manufacturer Lenovo Group and smartphone maker Huawei Technologies will figure heavily into the probe. Bain has apparently been mediating negotiations on matters such as memory supply volumes and sale prices.
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| Samsung calls on separating chairmen's roll from CEO |
3/27/2018 |
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"The separation will further empower the board of directors and enhance its independence. The board will be able to evaluate the company's performance more objectively and have greater authority and efficiency as a decision making body."
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| Is 2nm process hitting the final deminishing return? |
3/27/2018 |
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At future nodes, pitch scaling will slow to about 0.8x per generation, according to Munoz of Synopsys. That will force designers to shrink cell heights from about 228 nm with two fins and six tracks at 7 nm to 130–100 nm with five tracks and a single fin at 3 and 2 nm.
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| Micron gives in and announce adding memory capacity |
3/26/2018 |
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After yet another earnings beat Thursday, Micron MU, +1.61% announced that it would build out manufacturing capacity at facilities in Singapore and Japan for its two core products: DRAM memory chips and flash memory chips known as NAND.
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| As deadline approach, Toshiba might opt for IPO |
3/26/2018 |
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Toshiba could listen to activist shareholders who oppose the sale saying the $18 billion price tag undervalues the business. Hong Kong-based Argyle Street Management, a hedge fund with $1.2 billion under management, has said the board should consider an IPO instead.
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| Trump tarriff will lead to better protection of semiconductor IP |
3/26/2018 |
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U.S. government officials have grown increasingly weary of attempts to purchase Western companies by Chinese entities with financial ties to China's central government. Both Trump and his predecessor, Barack Obama, have blocked attempted acquisitions of U.S. firms and assets by China-backed firms.
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| Samsung stock split approved |
3/23/2018 |
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Shareholders approved the 50:1 stock split announced in January, as well as the appointment of new board directors.
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| Brexit will bring confusion to trades |
3/23/2018 |
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EU officials stressing that there will be no final deal on anything until there is a deal on every aspect of Brexit, businesses are planning for all possible outcomes.
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