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U.S. productivity rises 8/11/2017 Productivity grew at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the April-June quarter, slightly better than a scant 0.1 percent rate of increase in the first quarter, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Raw wafer supplies are tight but no shortage 8/11/2017 GlobalWafers expects the supply crunch to extend into the next two years due to limited new supply, shrugging off concerns over a potential supply glut due to SUMCOfs new fab. China not likely to advance much on semi technology in next few years 8/11/2017 Lee Pei-ing, president of Nanya Tech, in an interview on July 27, said that it would take at least three to five years for Chinese challengers to catch up to the major players or cause oversupply issues in the industry. ISSI offers reliable SLC Flash for automobile applications 8/10/2017 ISSI’s SLC NAND Flash product supports a wide operating temperature range of -40C to 105C, making it ideal for the next generation automotive, industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Macronix announced Ultra-OctaFlash Memory for "instant-on" performance 8/10/2017 The series can meet the instant-on and interactive graphical user interface (GUI) requirements of next generation electronics. Nvidia seeds Beijing automomous trucks technology startup 8/10/2017 Nvidia is targeting startups that are aligned with its strategy in fields as diverse as artificial intelligence (AI) and life sciences to automotive, robotics and virtual reality (VR). Intel sucessfully acquired Mobileye, an automotive vision system company 8/10/2017 Israel-based Mobileye is the world's largest supplier of systems used in automotive collision detection systems and is working with Intel, car companies and auto parts suppliers to develop autonomous driving systems. Micron is the first over the 10TB NVMe SSD barrier 8/9/2017 Micron 9200 SSDs push up to 5.5GB/sec of sequential reads, and up to 3.5GB/sec sequential writes. Random read/writes will hit 900K and 275K IOPS, while they arrive in up to 11TB. Everspin announced Gbit MRAM 8/9/2017 Everspin hopes its products find sockets replacing DRAM in solid state drives and flash-storage arrays as a non-volatile buffer and write cache. SoftBank to invest $5 billion into Nvidia through its $100 billion Vision Fund 8/9/2017 The equity shares are worth around $5 billion right now. Following the deal, the Vision Fund becomes Nvidia’s fourth largest shareholder. Renesas ships R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) with  Automotive Grade Linux 8/9/2017 Renesas has started volume chip shipment for Toyota’s new 2018 Camry which is scheduled to debut late this summer in the U.S. PC DRAM module prices up 8/8/2017 The average contract price of PC DRAM modules rose by nearly 40% sequentially in the first quarter to US$24 and then by more than 10% sequentially in the second quarter to US$27. New Zealand leads Asian Smart City race 8/8/2017 For the second straight year, New Zealand and Singapore have received the highest tally in IDC's Smart City Asia Pacific Awards. China taking tremendous financial risk on chip investments 8/8/2017 The new fab projects are expected to carry high depreciation costs, while the aggressive recruitment efforts by semiconductor manufacturers will raise the cost of personnel needed for fab operation. Chip sales is so far 21% ahead over last year 8/8/2017 Chip sales for the second quarter totaled a record $97.9 billion, up 6 percent from the previous quarter and up 24 percent compared with the second quarter of 2016, according to the SIA. Toshiba excluded WD out of planned memory chip plant 8/8/2017 Toshiba said Friday in a statement. “Despite claims to the contrary, Western Digital does not now possess any legal ‘rights’ to participate in this phase of investment, which is an important investment in the next generation of flash memory.” 10% of business in Hong Kong facing serious cyber attack 8/7/2017 While some of the companies have performed backup more frequently after WannaCrypt, many are still resorting to more traditional ways of backup without leveraging the cloud. Abu Dhabi investment company sold 40 million shares of AMD 8/7/2017 Mubadala continues to be the largest shareholder in AMD, holding 57 million common shares and 75 million warrants, representing a 12.9 percent stake. Taiwan foundries and design firms are seeing flood of orders 8/7/2017 Most Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen sales start picking up in July, and sales are expected to see substantial growth starting September, the sources indicated. Memory supply tightened for module company 8/7/2017 Supply of DRAM and NAND flash memory chips is expected to remain tight through the third quarter of 2017, according to memory module firm Transcend Information. Smartphone intro season drive memory prices high 8/4/2017 DRAM memory prices rose 3% on the month to about $3.10 for the standard 4Gb DDR3. NAND flash memory delivery prices for manufacturers in July stood at around $3.50, up 13% from a month earlier. Shanghai Huahong to build 12 inch plant in Wuxi 8/4/2017 Eight-inch foundry Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing (HHGrace) and 12-inch foundry Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) are under the Huahong group. HHGrace currently runs three 8-inch fabs. Toshiba to build new memory fab outside of WD joint-venture 8/4/2017 Toshiba, which owns the land, buildings and the production know-how at the factory, has split investments in production equipment with SanDisk Corp. since the joint supply venture started in 2004. Western Digital acquired SanDisk last year. China might take the opportunity to bid for Imagination 8/4/2017 A possible Canyon Bridge bid for Imagination could run into regulatory scrutiny from the UK authorities. The two companies are said to be currently engaged in talks. Infineon to join supply chian for Tesla Model 3 8/3/2017 Infineon, which supplies chips to control the batteries and motors in eight out of 10 of the world's top selling electric vehicles, confirmed its parts would go into the Model 3, which is now ramping up for volume production in 2018.  291  |  292  |  293  |  294  |  295  |  296  |  297  |  298  |  299  |  300

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