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| Cypress to sell Bloomington 200mm fab. |
3/7/2017 |
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Under the terms of the deal, Cypress will sell a subsidiary that owns the fab to a startup foundry, SkyWater Technology Foundry, backed by a Minnesota-based holding company.
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| Samsung NAND sales increased 34% |
3/7/2017 |
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Samsung Electronics succeeded in the mass production of 3D NAND flash memories for the first time in the world in 2013. It started the manufacturing of 64-layer 3D NAND chips in December last year and released 512 Gb products last month.
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| Let the bidding process begin |
3/6/2017 |
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Toshiba demands that bidders value the chip unit at a minimum of 2 trillion yen ($17.4 billion). The company hopes to earn a profit of at least 1 trillion yen in order to make up for the loss suffered by its American nuclear business.
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| ARM will have more sales in China than into the U.S. |
3/3/2017 |
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China as "massively" important to ARM's growth and believes the country will become its biggest market in a few years, a senior executive said Wednesday. ARM's microprocessor architecture powers more than 95% of the world's smartphones.
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| Surprise : Foxconn to bid on Toshiba Chip Unit |
3/3/2017 |
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"I cannot say we are for sure getting it, but we are very confident. We are also very sincere," Gou said. He later told Reuters that Foxconn was "definitely bidding" for Toshiba.
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| Seagate see SSDs and HDDs to co-exist |
3/2/2017 |
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The company will continue to put resources into HDD R&D, as the larger storage capacity of HDDs will still allow the product line to enjoy market demand in a number of areas. Seagate will continue to see demand for HDDs in areas such as surveillance, gaming, consumer electronics and datacenter markets.
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| Amazon Cloud outage on Tuesday |
3/2/2017 |
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Amazon Web Services suffered an unspecified breakdown in its eastern U.S. region starting about midday Tuesday. The result: unprecedented and widespread performance problems for thousands of websites and apps.
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| Manufacturing sector expanded |
3/2/2017 |
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Manufacturing expanded in February as the PMI registered 57.7 percent, an increase of 1.7 percentage points from the January reading of 56 percent, indicating growth in manufacturing for the sixth consecutive month, and is the highest reading since August 2014.
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| Lattice shareholders approved $1.3 billion take over |
3/1/2017 |
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The jury is still out on how U.S. President Donald Trump will react to China’s increasing attempts to acquire U.S. semiconductor firms. During his campaign, Trump signaled that he would take a hard line on trade with China.
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| Renesas completed acquisition of Intersil |
3/1/2017 |
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With the close of this acquisition, Renesas has transformed into an industry powerhouse with one of the most comprehensive set of advanced embedded solutions.
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| Softbank set goal for ARM to be in 1 trillion IoT devices |
3/1/2017 |
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Softbank's (9984.T) semiconductor subsidiary ARM will deliver about a trillion chips designed for the so-called internet of things (IoT) over the next 20 years, the chairman and CEO of the Japanese company said on Monday.
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| Mobile network needs to deal with defined and un-defined users |
2/28/2017 |
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Customers are no longer just people. They need to deal with defined and non-defined uses of their network–by machines, vehicles, sensors, hot spots, ‘things’–in an orchestrated ecosystem. Connectivity will be a core component, delivered across multiple vertical industries and devices.
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| UMC: 14nm is now in volume production |
2/28/2017 |
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UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) said it is shipping 14nm wafers to lead customers and has achieved “industry-competitive yields” using the process.
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| SoftBank and Foxconn joint venture to invest in the U.S. |
2/27/2017 |
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The move will give Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, a 54.5% stake in one of SoftBank's existing subsidiaries for $600 million and comes as both groups step up investments in the technology sector and consider expansion in the United States.
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| Nothing is secure in CyberSpace |
2/27/2017 |
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Researchers at the Dutch research institute CWI and Google have broken the SHA-1 internet security standard, which is widely used for digital signatures and file integrity verification, including secure credit card transactions.
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