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| Intel surfaces complain on Qualcomm monopoly |
7/24/2017 |
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Intel has now made its own statement, accusing Qualcomm of abusing its monopoly position and not licensing "standard-essential" patents at a fair rate as required by law.
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| China data centers up demand for advanced chips |
7/24/2017 |
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Data center installations are set to surge in China, the demand outlook for new applications, such as Big Data, cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI), appears promising locally.
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| UFS is wining over eMMC |
7/24/2017 |
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UFS2.1-based NAND flash chips boast the highest data transmission speed of up to 11.6Gbps (1200MB/s) compared to 3.2Gbps (400MB/s) attainable by eMMC5.1 chips. The difference will make UFS2.1 NAND flash chips the mainstream storage technology for smartphones in 2017.
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| Foundries see surge in automotive chips |
7/24/2017 |
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“The recent demand for automotive electronics, such as ADAS, AI, sensor hubs and connectivity, has changed the foundry perspective. The automotive market is wide open now."
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| Siemens built Digitalisation Hub in Singapore |
7/21/2017 |
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Together with Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB), Siemen's Hub will focus on the country's efforts to become "smart nation," utilising Siemen's IoT operating system MindSphere to drive digitalisation.
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| Qualcomm sales up despite patent entangles |
7/21/2017 |
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For the current quarter, Qualcomm expects earnings from 75 cents to 85 cents a share with $5.4 billion to $6.2 billion in revenue. Wall Street is expecting earnings of 90 cents a share on revenue of $5.48 billion.
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| IC Insight forecasts $419 billion semi sales |
7/21/2017 |
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"The strong annual upturn in sales is being driven almost entirely by fast-rising average selling prices (ASP. Prices for DRAM and NAND first began increasing in the second half of 2016 and continued with quarterly increases through the first half of 2017."
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| ZTE profit up 30% |
7/20/2017 |
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Revenue increased to 54.011 billion yuan, 13.1 percent higher, helped by growth in operations including wireless network, wireline network and bearer network, in addition to handsets, with improvements in gross profit margins.
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| Samsung increased production on HBM2 DRAM |
7/20/2017 |
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Samsung said it kicked off full-fledged mass production of the industry's first high-performance 8GB High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM) DRAM chips, applied to super computers, network solutions and graphic cards.
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| ASML expects revenue growth from deep EUV |
7/20/2017 |
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The new orders for ASML, whose clients include Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., brought the backlog to 27 for its newest machines, called extreme ultraviolet lithography systems or EUV.
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| Toshiba received court order to cancel out WD's original retraining action |
7/20/2017 |
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Toshiba allowed Western Digital partial access to shared data servers after the Superior Court of California granted a temporary restraining order earlier this month. But the Japanese company said it resumed blocking access after its petition for an appeal was accepted by the California Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
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| Nanya predicts continue DRAM tight supply |
7/19/2017 |
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DRAM prices would go up some 4% to 6% for the current July to September period, and the price would likely stay at such levels through the end of this year.
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| Renesas won infringement law suit |
7/19/2017 |
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On July 14, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered final judgment in favour of Renesas and Renesas Electronics America.
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| Intel is about to release 6 cores Coffee Lake |
7/19/2017 |
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By putting a six-core chip into the Core i5 line, it's sending a signal to consumers that this is the new mainstream. It's not a new trick, but it's a far simpler metric for buyers to latch onto that processor speed or TDP or HyperThreading.
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| NOR demand up due to new display and automobile circuit requirements |
7/19/2017 |
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NOR flash memory market is reversing from a state of oversupply due partly to significantly growing adoption of AMOLED panels and touch display driver ICs (TDDI) for mobile phones, and increasing demand from the automotive electronics and industrial controllers sectors.
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| Qualcomm faces fine in Europe |
7/18/2017 |
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Qualcomm could be on the hook for penalties "in the range of several millions of euros" if it continues to resist the demand for the data. The company was given a deadline of June 30 to respond to questions it hadn’t already answered.
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| Korean chip prices hit 30 month height |
7/18/2017 |
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The hike came amid improved exports of the information and technology industry. Exports of the mainstay dynamic random-access memory chip (DRAM) product rose 0.6 percent in June from a month earlier. DRAM chips are widely used in computers.
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| Samsung is agressive in keeping lead |
7/18/2017 |
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Samsung Electronics is accelerating the expansion of Pyeongtaek Line 1, the world's largest two-layer semiconductor plant, showing its will to solidify its number-one position in the global semiconductor industry by absorbing the world’s demand for NAND flash.
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| Apple leases equipment to its subcontractors |
7/17/2017 |
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Apple recently bought production equipment for rigid flexible printed circuit boards (RFPCBs) and is now leasing it to suppliers, hoping to secure a stable flow of parts for this fall's "iPhone 8".
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| Galaxy Note 8 available in September |
7/17/2017 |
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will be released on the market in two phases starting in September. The first countries to get the phablet in September are the United States, UK, and South Korea.
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