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| Qualcomm tested rapid wireliess charging for electric cars |
5/22/2017 |
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The smartphone chipmaker said a so-called "dynamic charging" test took place on a test track in Versailles, France. It used two Renault Kangoo vehicles driving over embedded pads in the road that transferred a charge to the cars' batteries at up to 20 kilowatts at highway speeds.
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| Renesas seeks new market for extreme low power MCU |
5/22/2017 |
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The Japanese company is confident that it can slash power consumption in its MCUs, reducing, for example, a 20 mW Synergy microcontroller to 2 mW. The goal is a quantum leap in battery life in IoT devices that could lead to a “battery-less” product when combined with energy harvesting.
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| DRAM revenue reached a new record high |
5/19/2017 |
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Demand for sustained DRAM supply had resulted in an at least 30% increase in the average contract price of PC DRAM modules between the fourth quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017.
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| Break through in Lithium battery |
5/19/2017 |
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The team says its research project has developed ‘realistic’ cells with a storage capacity of 30mAh/cm2, compared to the typical 2mAh/cm2 of conventional lithium-ion batteries.
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| Intel - the quiet NAND producer |
5/19/2017 |
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Intel is stepping up investment in 3D Xpoint, another non-volatile memory technology that promises to serve as a storage product as well as a DRAM replacement. The 3D Xpoint memory technology is said to offer vast improvements in speed and endurance.
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| Texas Instruments puts automotive radar on a chip |
5/18/2017 |
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Typically, they are boxes measuring inches across that house multiple components and require watts of power. A new range of chips from Texas Instruments, reduces that to a postage-stamp sized part
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| Samsung to spin off foundry division |
5/17/2017 |
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The separation of Samsung’s contract chipmaking from its branded semiconductor business would remove a conflict of interest with potential customers such as Nvidia and MediaTek, and create a new threat to dedicated foundries such as TSMC.
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| Gartner confirms 2.6% on IC growth in 2016 |
5/17/2017 |
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Gartner (Stamford, Conn.) concluded that global semiconductor sales reached $343.5 billion last year, an increase of 2.6 percent compared to 2015. The growth rate is higher than that estimated by other market watchers previously.
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| Close of a chapter in computer history |
5/16/2017 |
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Itanium processor had very high hopes: the 64-bit chip was supposed to do nothing less than kill off the x86 architecture that had dominated PCs for over two decades. Things didn't quite pan out that way, however, and Intel is officially calling it quits.
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| Apple to invest $1 billion on Reno data center |
5/12/2017 |
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Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval said it was “the first major economic development success in northern Nevada and helped place this region on the technology and innovation map.”
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| Coventor created EDA tool to unify MEMS in IoT design |
5/12/2017 |
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"Our new unified MEMS platform, CoventorMP, integrates our older separate platforms -- CoventorWare and MEMS+ for separate design-modeling and device-simulation -- into a single platform that integrates with Cadence and specific foundry PDK's [process design kits] for modeling, design, simulation and test."
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| TSMC takes 12nm order |
5/12/2017 |
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TSMC's 12nm process is a smaller version of the foundry's 16nm technology, which is already offered in three process variants, and comes with lower leakage and better cost characteristics.
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| TSMC to spend $1.27 billion on upgrades |
5/11/2017 |
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TSMC has approved capital appropriations of US$1.269 billion for the purpose of upgrading and expanding capacity for advanced-node manufacturing.
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| Tablet market continue to dwindle |
5/11/2017 |
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Worldwide tablet shipments declined by 8.5 percent in the first quarter of 2017, marking the tenth consecutive quarter in which the market contracted on a year-over-year basis.
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