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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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| Qualcomm announced VR development kit |
2/27/2017 |
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The VRDK is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2017. It is engineered to help developers attain improved VR performance and power efficiency for upcoming VR OEM devices built with the Snapdragon 835.
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| Exynos 9 is 10 core with 10nm FinFET processs |
2/24/2017 |
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Samsung said it plans to apply the new FinFET technology to Exynos 9 which is widely predicted by analysts to be installed in the tech company's next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, scheduled to be released as early as next month.
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| Over 100 million GPU's shipped in Q4 |
2/24/2017 |
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Among the big three suppliers, AMD and Nvidia both increased shipments by 10% in the fourth quarter (sequentially), while Intel shipments were down 4%. Discrete GPUs gained market over integrated units.
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| SK Hynix to bid on Toshiba Semiconductors |
2/24/2017 |
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SK Hynix said earlier that it had submitted a non-binding bid for a stake in the business on Feb. 3, without specifying the size of the stake. It will consider a fresh bid should Toshiba make another offer.
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