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| China appoints provincial government to watch over Apple cloud center |
8/15/2017 |
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China has started to police the Internet more closely and introduced a new cyber security law on June 1 that imposes tougher controls over data than in Europe and the United States, including mandating that companies store all data within China and pass security reviews.
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| DRAM Q3 contract prices up |
8/15/2017 |
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Contract prices for PC DRAM modules rose nearly 40% sequentially to US$24 in the first quarter of 2017, and grew another 10% to US$27 in the second quarter. Prices for July alone increased 4.6% on month.
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| Toshiba's preferred bidder might have on time cash problem |
8/15/2017 |
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Toshiba Corp.’s talks to sell its chips business to a consortium led by Bain Capital hit an impasse over the timing of payments for the business and governance issues, casting doubt on the company’s ability to complete a deal quickly.
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| Using NFC on your phone as smartkey for your car |
8/14/2017 |
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To prevent the risk of smartkey hacking, South Korean automotive supplier Hyundai Mobis has developed an integrated smartkey system where a user installs an app on an NFC-supported smartphone and utilises it as a smartkey for their vehicle.
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| TSMC to spend $3.15 billion on new capacity |
8/14/2017 |
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TSMC recently decided to make a new capital investment of US$3.153 billion in order to increase its production capacity. US$528 million is scheduled to be spent on the construction of new manufacturing facilities and the rest goes to facility expansion and renovation.
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| Toshiba reconsidering Foxconn and WD |
8/14/2017 |
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On Thursday, Toshiba Chief Executive Satoshi Tsunakawa revised description, saying: "In addition to the (Japanese) consortium, we are also in talks with Western Digital and Hon Hai" Precision Industry Co.,
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| How much does Wisconsin give up to lure Foxconn? |
8/11/2017 |
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Wisconsin State Assembly Republicans planned to take the first votes on the package next week, with a committee vote set for Tuesday and a full floor session scheduled for Thursday.
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| U.S. productivity rises |
8/11/2017 |
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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.
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| Raw wafer supplies are tight but no shortage |
8/11/2017 |
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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 SUMCOfs new fab.
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| Everspin announced Gbit MRAM |
8/9/2017 |
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Everspin hopes its products find sockets replacing DRAM in solid state drives and flash-storage arrays as a non-volatile buffer and write cache.
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| PC DRAM module prices up |
8/8/2017 |
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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.
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| Chip sales is so far 21% ahead over last year |
8/8/2017 |
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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.
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| Toshiba excluded WD out of planned memory chip plant |
8/8/2017 |
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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.”
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