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| TE Connectivity offers backplane transmission at 112Gbit/sec. |
2/5/2018 |
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The small form factor pluggable connector is designed to provide support eight lanes and to deliver 400GbE levels of performance amd. when paired with Credo’s 112G PAM4 SerDes, the combination is said to have bit error rate of better than 10 -7.
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| Cypress grew sales by 21 percent overall |
2/5/2018 |
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Cypress president and CEO, said in an interview with EE Times that Cypress enjoyed "stellar growth" during the year, outgrowing the industry as a whole even as the broader chip market enjoyed one of its best years in more than a decade.
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| Intel consider selling AR Glasses unit |
2/5/2018 |
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Intel is seeking multiple backers to invest in the unit, which has been developing smart glasses that pair by Bluetooth with a mobile phone. The chipmaker values the division at as much as $350 million.
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| SMIC gets funding from Chinese government to go 14nm |
2/2/2018 |
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China's National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund (SICIF) have made capital investments in subsidiary Semiconductor Manufacturing South China (SMSC), which will become a joint venture between the parties.
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| Intel moved to name new CTO |
2/2/2018 |
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Michael Mayberry has been named SVP and CTO effective immediately. Mayberry has been with Intel since 1984 and also serves as the managing director of Intel's research division, Intel Labs.
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| JEDEC to host Tutorial on Memory Modules |
2/1/2018 |
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Learn about a variety of market-specific memory modules in development in the industry and coordinated through JEDEC at this Tutorial on Memory Modules on March 28 in Santa Clara, Calif.
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| AMD revenue up 31% |
2/1/2018 |
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First-quarter revenue will be about $1.55 billion. That indicates growth of about 31 percent from an adjusted total of $1.18 billion for the same period a year earlier and compares with an average analyst estimate for a 27 percent increase.
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| U.S. consumer confidence rise |
2/1/2018 |
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consumer confidence index rose to 125.4 in January from a revised 123.1 in December. Index measures consumers' assessment of current conditions and their outlook for the next six months.
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| Powertech outlook excellent - thanks to memory |
1/31/2018 |
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Optimism builds on increasing adoption of DRAM and NAND memory chips in more applications, including Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency mining, this year.
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| Renesas denies rumor to acquire Maxim |
1/31/2018 |
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Earlier, CNBC reported that discussions were ongoing for a deal that could be valued at up to $20 billion. The report, however, also said that the deal was not imminent and may not happen.
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| Google acquired HTC for smatphone telents |
1/31/2018 |
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Google officially closed its $1.1 billion deal with HTC Corp., adding more than 2,000 smartphone specialists in Taiwan to help the search giant chase Apple Inc.
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| Mobile NAND flash market continue to grow |
1/30/2018 |
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NAND Flash market is expected to grow in the near future due to rise in use of NAND flash memory to lower the additional storage costs for memory. The North America and Europe market is expected to grow significantly in the near future owing to heavy demand for mobile and smartphones with reasonable rates.
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| Qualcomm work with Chinese smartphone manufacturer on 5G |
1/30/2018 |
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“Qualcomm Technologies has close relationships within China’s mobile and semiconductor ecosystem, and we’ll continue to work with this ecosystem to drive innovation as we move from the 3G/4G era to the 5G era," said Qualcomm President.
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| Price hike slows for Mobile DRAM |
1/29/2018 |
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Contract prices for mobile DRAM are forecast to rise by only three percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to DRAMeXchange.
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| Intel prospect looks good |
1/29/2018 |
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Intel Corp. gave an upbeat quarterly and annual sales forecast, signaling optimism that demand will persist even as the industry scrambles to fix vulnerabilities in its PC and server chips.
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| Western Digital attends record revenue quarter |
1/29/2018 |
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"We continued our strong financial performance in the December quarter, with nine percent year-over-year revenue growth, driven by each of our major end-market categories and solid execution by our team,"
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| Foundary competition to intensify with China into the game |
1/27/2018 |
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TrendForce estimates that China’s production capacity of 300mm wafer will reach nearly 700,000 pieces per month by the end of 2018, a 42.2% increase from the end of 2017; the revenue from China’s entire wafer fabrication industry is expected to reach RMB 176.7 billion in 2018, an annual growth of 27.12%.
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