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| Intel heavily invested in AI tech |
10/24/2017 |
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The acquired companies seemingly useful to Intel’s AI ambitions thus far include Altera (2015), Saffron (2015), Nervana (2016), Movidius (2016) and Mobileye (2017). Intel Capital has also fattened its AI portfolio with startups Mighty AI, Data Robot, Lumiata, CognitiveScale, Aeye Inc., Element AI and others.
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| New iMac reported to have AMD GPU |
10/24/2017 |
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The new iMac series adopt GPUs supplied by AMD, with the super workstation-class 27-inch iMac Pro equipped with Radeon Pro Vega 56 GPU and 8GB HBM2 memory or Radeon Pro Vega 64 and 16GB HBM2 memory.
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| Intel believes in future of Big Data |
10/23/2017 |
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“The world is undergoing a data explosion. By 2020, every autonomous vehicle on the road will create 4TB of data per day. A million self-driving cars will create the same amount of data every day as 3 billion people.”
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| 10nm process expected to soar |
10/23/2017 |
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Based on the latest forecast, TSMC would log $3.2 billion from sales of 10nm chips in 2017. The company started 10nm production in the second quarter of this year.
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| China set out to improve quality |
10/23/2017 |
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"Three years ago, we relied chiefly on a price war to crack the market. But as more resources were poured into research and development, we saw a fundamental change."
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| Blooming business at foundries |
10/23/2017 |
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With Taiwan-based IC design houses ramping up wafer starts at their local foundry partners, the foundries will see their fab utilization rates remain high in the fourth quarter.
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| Silicon wafers expected to continue rising in 2018 and 2019 |
10/20/2017 |
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Epitaxial silicon shipments for semiconductor applications (excluding solar) will total 11.5 billion square inches in 2017, up 8 percent from 2016. Shipments are expected to rise to 11.8 billion square inches next year and 12.4 billion square inches in 2019.
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| Challenges in testing the new memories |
10/20/2017 |
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Memory test vendors are contending with next-generation devices, such as 3D NAND flash memories, HBM2 chips, low-power double-data-rate DRAMs, graphics DRAMs, phase-change memories, magnetoresistive RAMs, and resistive RAMs, some of which present new technical challenges to testing with their advanced packaging.
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| IC Insight predicts 22% semi growth |
10/20/2017 |
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For 2017, IC Insights expects a whopping 77% increase in the DRAM ASP, which is forecast to propel the DRAM market to 74% growth this year, the largest growth rate since the 78% DRAM market increase in 1994.
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| Nanya Technology rolls 20nm DRAM |
10/19/2017 |
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NANYA is scheduled to enter mass production of 20nm 8Gb DDR4 chips in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the Taiwan-based DRAM chipmaker.
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| Shell opened first EV charging station |
10/19/2017 |
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Three charging stations are opening Wednesday at locations in London, Surrey and Derby, with seven more expected by the end of the year. It comes only days after Shell agreed to buy electric vehicle charging firm NewMotion.
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| No hope to revamp NAFTA this year |
10/19/2017 |
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A fourth round of negotiations between the U.S., Mexico and Canada ended in mutual exasperation Tuesday. Talks will continue next month in Mexico City and will spill over into next year.
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| New partnership in MRAM developement |
10/18/2017 |
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Spin Transfer Technologies (STT) and capital equipment vendor Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) have entered into a collaborative engineering program to jointly develop process technologies for SRAM- and DRAM-class spin-transfer torque (ST) MRAM devices.
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| SMIC appointed new executives |
10/17/2017 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China, today announced the appointment of Dr. Haijun Zhao and Dr. Liang Mong Song as SMIC Co-CEO and Executive Director.
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| China plans to double its 12 inch capacity in 2018 |
10/17/2017 |
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Shanghai Xinsheng is scheduled to come online at the end of 2017 with monthly capacity of 150,000 12-inch wafers in the first phase, and the monthly capacity will double to 300,000 units by 2020.
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| Samsung Electronics CEO resigned |
10/16/2017 |
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The surprise resignation of Samsung’s chip and display head came as he was expected to take a bigger role following Lee’s arrest in February and the departures of other key executives in the wake of the bribery scandal.
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| DRAM manufacturers stock rises |
10/16/2017 |
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While demand for DRAM was expected to rise 20.6% next year, chipmakers were only planning to add 19.6 percent in capacity globally, a TrendForce report said
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| ON Semi released new image sensors |
10/16/2017 |
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The new parts provide a complete solution with the new image sensor and processing functionality integrated within a low power system-on-chip (SoC) that simplifies and speeds adoption in applications like rear and surround view cameras.
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