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| China IC design output continue to grow |
4/10/2017 |
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China's IC design industry output value climbed to US$24.75 billion in 2016 from US$5.66 billion in 2010 which reached a CAGR of 27.9% during the five-year period.
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| India's X86 server market unit shrinked |
4/7/2017 |
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India's server market has dropped by 16.8% quarter-on-quarter in the last three months of 2016, with 30,501 units shipped compared to the 36,668 units in the third quarter of 2016. Revenue, however, grew 4.2% quarter-on-quarter, thanks to sales of high-density servers.
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| IBM to employ Nvidia GPU accelerator to boost server performance |
4/7/2017 |
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IBM said its cloud customers will be able to use the GPU accelerator for applications such as artificial intelligence, deep learning and and high-performance data analytics. The accelerator can support the types of intensive workloads required by high-throughput applications used in business sectors such as financial services, energy and healthcare.
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| Global memory market to exceed $100 billion this year |
4/7/2017 |
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The global memory chip market is expected to surpass US$100 billion (112.7 trillion won). The figure is up as much as US$25 billion (28.18 trillion won) from US$78.6 billion (88.58 trillion won) last year which was an all-time high.
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| U.S. Ok'ed purchase of NXP by Qualcomm |
4/6/2017 |
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Qualcom's acquisition of NXP will be the biggest-ever in the semiconductor industry. The acquisition is also expected to help Qualcomm, which provides chips to Android smartphone makers and Apple Inc, reduce its dependence on a cooling smartphone market
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| Fujitsu to blow new lives into Sparc chips |
4/6/2017 |
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Fujitsu is helping to keep SPARC from extinction as it continues to design and develop the architecture. The company has introduced two Unix servers -- the M12-2S and the M12-2 -- using SPARC chips based on a new CPU architecture.
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| Auto sales slowed in March |
4/6/2017 |
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General Motors reported a 5 percent increase in sales last month as Detroit counterparts Ford and Fiat Chrysler reported declines of 7 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
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| Montana to write their own Internet laws in defiance of Congress |
4/6/2017 |
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States have started writing their own legislation to protect broadband privacy after Congress voted to repeal regulations that would have required internet providers to obtain their customers' consent before collecting their personal information.
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| Blackberry surprises industry on positive notes |
4/5/2017 |
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Blackberry topped Wall Street expectations with its latest earnings report announced this morning. For the fourth fiscal quarter which ended on February 28th, the company grew its top line by 12.2% to $193 million.
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| Apple to dump Imagination grapgics chip design |
4/5/2017 |
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Apple is developing its own graphics technology for iPhones, iPads and watches and will soon stop using PowerVR graphics processors made by British chip designer Imagination Technologies, Apple's largest customer.
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| Taiwan recruiting companies to join IoT Center |
4/5/2017 |
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Taiwan's Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency (ASVDA) has started negotiations with five to six U.S. high-tech firms, including semiconductor giant Intel Corp., networking services provider Cisco System Inc. and IT services firm Hewlett Packard Enterprise on working with Taiwan to develop IoT Center.
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| IC Insights think that memory industry growth will be outstanding for the year |
4/4/2017 |
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IC Insights Inc. said it now expects IC revenue to increase by 11 percent this year due to a substantial upgrade to the forecasts for DRAM and NAND, which the market research firm now expects to grow by 39 percent and 25 percent, respectively. IC Insights had previously forecast that the chip market would grow 5 percent in 2017.
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| Investor brought Cypress wafer plant to operate independently |
4/4/2017 |
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The plant, built in the 1980s by Control Data, has 80,000 square feet of clean-room space and chiefly makes wafers that are 200 millimeters in diameter. Cypress produced about 17,000 wafers a month at the plant, shipping them to other factories around the world for use as the basic substrate for chips.
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| Toshiba said it will keep its defense semiconductor unit |
4/4/2017 |
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Toshiba assured the ministry's Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency that its defense semiconductor business will not be sold and that the conglomerate will keep working to retain engineers even after spinning off and selling its memory operations.
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| Dell released upbeat results |
3/31/2017 |
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The company reported operating income of $63 million, reversing an operating loss in the year-ago quarter, and achieved non-GAAP operating income of $752 million, an improvement of 32 percent year-over-year.
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| Intel said its 10nm FinFET will be "full generation ahead" |
3/31/2017 |
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Thanks to "hyper scaling" that squeezes in twice as many transistors. That will yield CPUs with 25 percent more performance and 45 percent lower power use than its current Kaby Lake chips when they ship towards the end of 2017.
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| Bidders are plenty for Toshiba chip business |
3/30/2017 |
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Bidders include U.S concern Western Digital, which partners with Toshiba on NAND flash memory production, and South Korean competitor SK Hynix. Other reported suitors include Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, known as Foxconn, as well as European and U.S. investment funds.
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| Europe invests in photonic integrated circuits |
3/30/2017 |
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“The consortium involved in PIXAPP, has an unmatched record of excellence in delivering many world ‘firsts’ in PICs. We will establish ‘best in class’ PIC packaging technologies that are cost-effective and scalable to high volume manufacture.
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