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| Oil use to decrease |
11/17/2017 |
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Although OECD countries are forecast to have 46 million more cars come 2040, oil demand from these vehicles is going to fall by 4.8 million barrels per day. In contrast, demand in developing countries will increase by 6.5 million.
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| Manufacturing has room to grow |
11/17/2017 |
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U.S. manufacturing output growth has been concentrated in a few standout areas such as pharmaceuticals, electronics, and aerospace, while most other manufacturing industries have seen slower growth or real declines in value added.
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| 3D XPoint gets boosted with facility expansion at IM Flash |
11/15/2017 |
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The IM Flash joint venture was created in 2006 to manufacture non-volatile memory for both Intel and Micron, starting with NAND for use in SSDs, phones, tablets and more. In 2015, IM Flash began manufacturing 3D XPoint technology.
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| China Gigadevice gets help to keep NOR production |
11/15/2017 |
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Thanks to support from the government of Mainland China, GigaDevice has newly developed plans to expand production, and support from SMIC has been particularly important. SMIC has pledged to provide 25,000 chips worth of monthly production capacity to GigaDevice for their OEM production of NOR memory.
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| Micron announced DDR4 NVDIMM-N modules |
11/14/2017 |
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Micron's NVDIMMs are type N, meaning they function as ordinary ECC DRAM DIMMs but have NAND flash to backup data to in the event of a power loss. This is in contrast to the NVDIMM-F type that offers pure flash storage.
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| Asian CEO start to pay attention to environment impacts |
11/14/2017 |
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Best practices are often shared across boundaries, with the overlap of multinational companies operating with indigenous Asian firms. Global operating standards — such as ISO and ASTM — are picking up in the region quicker than ever before.
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| IBM offers quantum computing for cloud service |
11/14/2017 |
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Quantum computing is a difficult area of technology to understand. Instead of being built on machines interpreting zeroes and ones in on/off states, quantum computers can live in multiple states. This creates all kinds of new programming possibilities.
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| Toshiba considers fallback plan |
11/13/2017 |
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Toshiba appears to be examining the possibility of selling new shares to foreign investors through a private placement or issuing preferred shares without voting rights. A public offering does not seem to be on the table at the moment.
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| UMC hit record revenues |
11/13/2017 |
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UMC's cumulative 2017 revenues through October totaled NT$126.46 billion, rising 3.3% from a year earlier.
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| Automotive is the fastest growing sector |
11/13/2017 |
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For semiconductor suppliers, this is good news as analog ICs, MCUs, and a great number of sensors are required for many of these automotive systems.
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| ON Semi incubates startups |
11/13/2017 |
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The incubator screens hundreds of startups every year to select a handful that become portfolio companies, getting access to EDA and test tools and services from partners, including a shuttle run at TSMC.
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| Q4 smartphone production to increase 6.3% |
11/10/2017 |
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For this fourth quarter, TrendForce estimates that the global smartphone production volume will reach its peak for 2017 with a total of 425 million, up 6.3% year on year. Additionally, the global total for the entire 2017 is currently estimated at 1.46 billion units.
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| Graphene can produce ultra low power transistors |
11/10/2017 |
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Scientists from the University of York and Roma Tre University claim that ultra-low-power transistors could be built using composite materials featuring monolayers of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC).
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| AMD graphics guru jumped ship |
11/10/2017 |
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Raja M. Koduri will join Intel in December as chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, and as general manager of a new initiative to drive edge computing solutions.
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| Toshiba memory business is good but with challenges |
11/10/2017 |
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The robust results on the back of soaring demand for chips used in smartphones and data center servers underscore the difficulty Toshiba will face in generating substantial earnings once the unit - the world’s No. 2 producer of NAND flash memory semiconductors - is sold.
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