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| ASE see packaging buiness shrinked |
10/31/2017 |
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ASE said quarter-on-quarter net profit shrank 19 percent last quarter due to a slower-than-expected pickup in the communications segment.
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| Micron use AI and Big Data to improve yield |
10/31/2017 |
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"To swiftly respond to market needs, many manufacturers are improving quality, yield rates, productivity, and cost through big data analytics. Micron is no exception."
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| Micron use AI and big data to improve yield |
10/31/2017 |
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"To swiftly respond to market needs, many manufacturers are improving quality, yield rates, productivity, and cost through big data analytics. Micron is no exception."
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| A good quarter at Cypress |
10/30/2017 |
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On an adjusted (non-GAAP) basis -- which excludes items like stock-based compensation and acquisition expenses -- net income was $99.0 million, or $0.27 per share, up from $53.5 million, or $0.15 per share in the same year-ago period.
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| Qualcomm's purchase of NXP delayed |
10/30/2017 |
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Qualcomm’s $38 billion acquisition of NXP will not happen — as promised — this year. The deal, is likely to slip to “early 2018.”
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| Nvidia talked about AI and deep learning |
10/30/2017 |
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Huang and MOST announced an extensive partnership centered on creating Taiwan's first AI-focused supercomputer at the National Center for High-Performance Computing as a platform for accelerating advanced research.
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| Macronix logged handsome profit |
10/27/2017 |
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Macronix International Co (ÍúºêëŠ×Ó) yesterday posted its strongest quarterly profit in seven years for last quarter, as prices climbed on strong demand for high-density memory chips and supply constraints.
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| Bain put partnership restrictions on Seagate and SK Hynix |
10/27/2017 |
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Seagate pledged not to buy any stake in the unit for 10 years as part of the $18 billion deal. Toshiba has said SK Hynix will for 10 years be prevented from accessing proprietary information belonging to the chip unit.
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| SK Hynix post $2.7 billion record profit |
10/27/2017 |
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SK hynix posted new quarterly records in net profit, operating income and revenue. Net profit came to a record high of 3.05 trillion won (US$2.7 billion).
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| AMD realize first profit in three years |
10/26/2017 |
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The company reported an adjusted 10 cents a share on revenue of $1.64 billion (with revenue up 26 percent from a year ago). Analysts were expecting 8 cents a share on revenue of $1.51 billion in the quarter.
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| Survey shows self-driving cars are making steady progress |
10/26/2017 |
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Survey found that traditional automakers and suppliers have been joined by emerging and mature technology companies in the race to fill the streets with driverless cars. However, there remain barriers to these technologies reaching their growth potential and gaining acceptance by the general public.
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| Order for durable manufacturing goods up 2.2% |
10/26/2017 |
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Commerce Department says that the September advance in durable goods followed a 2 percent rise in August and was the sharpest increase since a 6.4 percent jump in June.
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| Apple quietly pulled 256GB iPhone 7 |
10/25/2017 |
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It appears that the company quietly pulled the 256GB iPhone 7 from sale on Sept. 12, the same day it unveiled the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X.
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| ARM core has new architecture for better security |
10/25/2017 |
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ARM has announced the launch of its Platform Security Architecture (PSA), a holistic set of documents and specifications that the company hopes will help shift the economics of security to the advantage of the entire industry.
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| Intel helped on Google Pixel chip development |
10/25/2017 |
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Last week, device repair website iFixit published a teardown of the Pixel 2 XL that showed what the Pixel Visual Core chip actually looks like. The serial number on the chip in a photograph begins with "SR3," like some Intel chips.
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| Apple to have difficult time to meet initial iPhone X quantity |
10/24/2017 |
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Some of the data gathered by Taipei-based KGI Securities research company forecasts that Foxconn will only ship around 25-30 million iPhone X units in Q4 2017. Previously, the company's analyst Ming-chi Kuo said around 30-35 million handsets will be shipped by the end of 2017.
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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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