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| China see the the importance of memory industry |
1/20/2017 |
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On one front, three multinational companies—Intel, Samsung and SK Hynix—are expanding their memory production in fabs within China. On a second front, China hopes to get its own domestic memory sector off the ground, and for good reason.
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| Hope on Trump to balance Chinese semiconductor agression |
1/19/2017 |
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The U.S. government will need to identify areas in which the diffusion of particular semiconductor technologies, or control of particular companies, poses intolerable national-security risks that cannot be mitigated through steps short of stopping their acquisition
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| FTC sued Qualcomm on antitrust |
1/18/2017 |
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The FTC complaint accused Qualcomm of refusing to license some standard essential patents to rival chipmakers, and of entering into an exclusive deal with Apple Inc.
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| Crossbar ReRAM is worth notice |
1/17/2017 |
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Imagine a 1T1R scheme would be used in embedded memory applications, involving caching, with the 1TnR design used in storage drives such as SSDs in formats such as M.2 or even NVDIMMs.
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| Samsung: Note 7 fault is in the battery |
1/17/2017 |
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The smartphone maker is expected to release the results of its investigation on January 23. Samsung will reveal that the battery was the main reason for the fires—not a design flaw or firmware issue.
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| SMIC rated "fastest growing foundry" |
1/17/2017 |
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Shanghai-based SMIC saw its annual sales in 2016 surge by 31 percent while the top-ten foundry players had growth averaging 11 percent during the same period, according to IC Insights.
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| 450 mm wafer dream takes a break |
1/17/2017 |
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The Global 450 Consortium (G450C)--a joint R&D program that involved Intel, TSMC, Globalfoundries, IBM, Samsung, the SUNY Polytechnic Institute--quietly wound down its work at the end of last year with member companies concluding that the timing was not right for an optional Phase 2.
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| Taiwan Powertech scraps $2 billion deal with China |
1/16/2017 |
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Powertech, a Taiwanese chip tester and packager, said the plan was being scrapped because a one-year period authorized by its shareholders to get the deal approved in Taiwan was about to lapse and local regulators had yet to give a green light.
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| Low power Mobil Processors are finding other applications |
1/16/2017 |
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Chips increasingly are finding their way into autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things, unmanned aerial vehicles, virtual reality, and other applications far beyond phone calls and text messages. Moreover, they are gaining in complexity as they are adapted for other markets.
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| Macronix memory design shows up on Qualcomm system |
1/13/2017 |
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Macronix announced that its NAND MCP memory solution has been adopted and incorporated by Qualcomm for a Qualcomm Technologies' LTE Cat. M1/NB-1 Technologies Inc. as a part of the reference design chipset, the MDM9206 modem.
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| Google: Memory latency have to go down |
1/13/2017 |
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Google wants memory chips with lower latency. “We can get as much bang for the buck improving memory latency as processor performance,” said Sabada, pointing to promising work on new memory architectures.
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| Higher Q4 profit for TSMC |
1/13/2017 |
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The Taiwanese company reported a record net income of NT$100.2 billion ($3.15 billion) in the three months ended December, surpassing the NT$96.2 billion average of analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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| MediaTek broke revenue rcords in 2016 |
1/11/2017 |
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MediaTek saw its 2016 revenues climb 29.2% on year to a record high of NT$275.51 billion (US$8.6 billion). Robust performance of its China-based handset clients and a bigger share of the smartphone-chip market led to MediaTek's impressive revenue resut for the year.
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