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| Foxconn moved with Sharp on chip making venture |
11/8/2016 |
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"If Sharp can integrate with Foxconn, we can create a lot of room for growth by leveraging Sharp's know-how, Taiwan's own semiconductor manufacturing expertise, and young engineers in China,"
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| Graphene can make fresh water process more efficient |
11/8/2016 |
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key advantage of graphene in this context is its strength. By adding a lot of very small holes or pores to the sheet, you get a nanoporous graphene filter. Pores should be around 0.5nm, which is large enough to let water molecules through but small enough to block salt ions. This filter doesn’t require the high pressures required by RO on the seawater side to achieve high levels of throughput.
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| Apple may bypass iPhone 7SE upgrade |
11/7/2016 |
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Apple would look for ways to bring down the production and shipment quantities of iPhones to around 35-40 million units from 51.2 million units in 2016. Such a feat is possible by dropping the launch of an iPhone SE upgrade in 2017.
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| New TI MCU have built-in Ferro-RAM and DSP |
11/7/2016 |
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MSP430FR5994 microcontrollers have 256kbyte of FRAM and DSP capability from the firm’s low energy accelerator (LEA) which computes fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), finite impulse response (FIR) filters, infinite impulse response (IIR) filters and other maths functions.
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| Marvell to layoff 900 |
11/7/2016 |
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The company said it intends to cut costs by cutting some R&D programs, streamlining engineering processes and consolidating R&D sites for greater efficiency, all of which will lead to the layoffs.
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| Lattice agreed to be sold to Chinese |
11/7/2016 |
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Chinese suitors have faced intense scrutiny from regulators in their pursuit of U.S. chip makers, resulting in some failed deals this year. In general, China's aggressive push into overseas acquisitions this year has sparked opposition from governments from Australia to Germany.
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| SMIC to build 12 inch fab in Shenzhen |
11/4/2016 |
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The company said in a press release that the new fab is aimed at meeting demand for internet of things (IoT) chips using mature technology and some second-hand equipment for production.
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| Qualcomm has an up quarter |
11/4/2016 |
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Net income attributable to Qualcomm rose to $1.60 billion, or $1.07 per share, in the fourth quarter ended Sept. 25, from $1.06 billion, or 67 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose to $6.18 billion from $5.46 billion.
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| DRAM prices jumped 20% |
11/3/2016 |
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average contract price of 4GB PC DRAM modules increased over 20% between September and October from US$14.5 to US$17.5 as DRAM suppliers completed their fourth-quarter contract negotiations with first-tier PC-OEMs.
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| Microsoft shown next gen server spec with 50G Ethernet |
11/3/2016 |
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The Project Olympus design specifies a new motherboard, server and rack. It defines a 945mm x 441mm server with room for two CPUs, 32 DDR4 DIMMs, 50G networking, eight M.2 NVMe SSD slots, three PCI Express x16 cards and a 12V power supply.
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| Ford choose QNX software system from BlackBerry |
11/3/2016 |
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Under the agreement, a dedicated BlackBerry team will work with the automaker to expand applications of QNX Neutrino as well as BlackBerry's QNX hypervisor, QNX audio processing software and Certicom security technology.
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| Manufacturing index up for October |
11/3/2016 |
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Manufacturing expanded in October as the PMI registered 51.9 percent, an increase of 0.4 percentage point from the September reading of 51.5 percent, indicating growth in manufacturing for the second consecutive month.
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| Macronix predicts NOR memory shortage next year |
11/2/2016 |
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In the past, the memory capacity was limited for the use of embedded memory in structures; however, today’s enhanced controller functions and the switch to plug-in memory have significantly increased the demand for memory.
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| DRAM prices shoot up |
11/2/2016 |
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Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips rose at its fastest pace in nearly four years in October, thanks to better-than-expected demand for personal computers (PC) and a cut in DRAM supply.
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| Cypress beats estimate |
11/2/2016 |
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Cypress shares have climbed roughly 5 percent since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $10.26, a rise of 3 percent in the last 12 months.
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| Samsung invests in startup AI company |
11/2/2016 |
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Graphcore said its processors will be up to 100 times better than current solutions in the market when it comes to how quickly the AI can learn, as well as the amount of energy consumed.
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| Status of the smartphone market |
11/1/2016 |
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Despite the recall of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, global smartphone shipment volume is still up 1% with a total of 362.9 million in the third quarter of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015 when vendors shipped 369.3 million.
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| MediaTek wants to be in auto chips aslo |
11/1/2016 |
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"The lucrative margin of more than 40% in making chips for automobiles is very attractive for MediaTek," said C.Y. Yao, an analyst at Topology Research Institute.
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| Samsung is invesment heavy on 3D-NAND and Display |
10/31/2016 |
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Samsung is said to be investing 13.2 trillion won in the production of V-NAND chips, which are used for business servers that handle large amounts of data. The South Korean company will spend 10.9 trillion won for OLED displays – twice the sum that Samsung invested in displays last year.
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| AI to expand on many applications |
10/31/2016 |
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Identifying, understanding, and acting on the use cases, technologies and growth opportunities for cognitive/AI systems will be a differentiating factor for most enterprises and the digital disruption caused by these technologies will be significant."
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| Microsemi integrates the control module on electric aircraft |
10/31/2016 |
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Increases in the demand for higher reliability and integrated components in the aerospace industry is leading the move toward more electric aircraft (MEA), and Microsemi’s PCM will play a role in future power- conversion applications, such as landing systems, de-icing systems, wheels and braking systems, and high lift- and primary and secondary flight-control actuation systems.
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