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| Metal working machinery order increased |
10/13/2016 |
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Much of the growth came from smaller contract machining shops, a sign of greater activity and capacity constraints in larger industries. Automotive and aerospace also made gains after some faltering.
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| Flash prices to bounce back in Q4 |
10/12/2016 |
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Supply shortage that persisted in the NAND Flash market during the third quarter will become more acute in the fourth quarter due to surging demand from clients in the smartphone and SSD industries.
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| Micron agreed to close Inotera purchase |
10/12/2016 |
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Micron Technology Inc yesterday agreed to close the NT$132.5 billion (US$4.19 billion) buyout of its Taiwanese DRAM manufacturing arm in early December, ending months-long speculation about a potential collapse of the deal.
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| Testing machine learning in self-driving car is a challenge |
10/12/2016 |
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The biggest hole in a federal automated policy published late September is in the regulators¡¯ failure to tangle head-on with fundamental difficulties in testing machine learning¡ªa problem already known to the scientific/engineering community.
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| Samsung marching onto 64 layers 3D NAND |
10/12/2016 |
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Samsung wants to move on as quickly as possible from 48-layer NAND to 64-layer NAND to keep a step ahead of second-ranked Toshiba, which plans to begin mass production of the chips in the first half of 2017.
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| Semi Industry put 450mm on back burner |
10/11/2016 |
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By the end of 2020 there are expected to be 22 more fabs in operation, bringing the total number of 300mm fabs used for IC fabrication to 117.
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| IBM created 7nm transistor |
10/11/2016 |
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That allows for faster computer chips to be used in future devices, and that's important because more computer power usually leads to other technological breakthroughs.
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| Samsung suspend Note 7 production |
10/11/2016 |
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Fires in phones that were meant to replace devices that had been recalled, suggesting it had failed to fix a problem that has already hurt its brand and threatens to derail a recovery in its mobile business.
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| China rushing to fill gaps on flash memory |
10/10/2016 |
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China' National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund have encouraged a spurt of growth. XMC, for example, has broken ground on one of the largest fabs, due to come on-stream in early 2018 and targeting 3D NAND production with 300mm wafers.
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| Qualcomm/NXP merger talk get closer |
10/10/2016 |
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There is currently a valuation gap of less than 10 percent between Qualcomm and NXP as they discuss a possible transaction. Qualcomm is considering a deal structure of 75 percent cash and 25 percent stock. NXP would prefer all cash, another person said.
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| Amazon to use MediaTek chip on Echo Dot |
10/7/2016 |
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MediaTek reportedly has landed tablet chip orders from Amazon for production of its second generation smart home device, the Echo Dot. Shipments of the chips will peak in October-November.
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| Micron estimate beats analyst forecast |
10/6/2016 |
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Micron forecast first-quarter adjusted profit of 13-21 cents per share, while analysts were expecting a profit of 9 cents. It would represent the company's first profit in three quarters.
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| Samsung to fabricate Snapdragon chip for Qualcomm |
10/6/2016 |
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Samsung will make Qualcomm's Snapdragon 830 mobile processors using 10-nanometre production technology, adding that the South Korean firm agreed to use the processors in half of its next update of the Galaxy S.
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| Tech Giants formed AI development group |
10/6/2016 |
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The nonprofit Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society includes Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft. Those founding members will contribute financial and research resources.
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