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| Durable good orders up |
11/25/2016 |
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Orders for durable goods rose 4.8 percent in October, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. That is the best showing since a similar advance in October 2015.
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| Samsung might seperate fab from system design |
11/23/2016 |
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Insiders of the company are suggesting to reorganize the System LSI division in order to systematically grow the system semiconductor business. They are planning to separate the design and manufacturing sectors in the division and separate or spin off to fabless and foundry business divisions.
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| PC DRAM prices up 15% |
11/23/2016 |
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global DRAM market in the first quarter of 2017 will benefit from the stock-up activities ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays and the widespread expectations of tight supply. The average contract price of PC DRAM 4GB modules is estimated to rise by around 15% sequentially in next year’s first quarter.
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| Macom to acquire Applied Micro for ARM server chips |
11/23/2016 |
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Assuming the technology works as advertised and delivers on the lower costs it promises, it has the potential to significantly boost data center performance at a price that many data centers are likely to find quite agreeable.
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| Chinese to appeal directly to Obama on purchase of Aixtron |
11/22/2016 |
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An American security panel that advises the White House on foreign deals had recommended the two sides drop their plan, citing unspecified national security concerns. Aixtron said it and its Chinese suitor would do something unusual: They would appeal to President Barack Obama directly to approve the deal.
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| Snapdragon 835 goes beyond mobile |
11/22/2016 |
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AR, VR and AI will affect mobile shipments. On spec, the Snapdragon 835 SoC will enable richer apps to be built, advancing the platform shift.
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| China made "huge progress" in High Performance Computer |
11/18/2016 |
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According to the latest rankings released this week at Salt Lake City, China's Sunway TaihuLight has once again been named the world's fastest supercomputer, the eighth time in a row that a Chinese-made machine has taken the semiannual TOP500 crown.
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| UMC opens 12" China fab |
11/18/2016 |
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Fab 12X is part of a 3-way joint venture foundry company between UMC, Xiamen Municipal Government and Fujian Electronics and Information Group. The JV foundry, named United Semi, will initially offer 55nm and 40nm process.
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| IC Insight elects Nvidia and MediaTek top growth companies |
11/17/2016 |
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The fastest growing top-20 company in 2016 is forecast to be US-based Nvidia, which is expected to post a 35% on-year increase in sales. The second-fastest growing top-20 company in 2016 is expected to be Taiwan-based MediaTek, which is forecast to post a 29% increase in sales.
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| Government suggested that the connected world needs more security |
11/17/2016 |
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In a report obtained by The Associated Press, the Homeland Security Department described runaway security problems with devices that have been made internet-capable in recent years, a group that includes medical implants, surveillance cameras, home appliances, digital video recorders, thermostats and baby monitors.
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| Wholesale prices stayed flat in October |
11/17/2016 |
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The Labor Department said Wednesday that its producer price index was flat last month after rising 0.3 percent in September. Services prices fell 0.3 percent, pulled down by a record 5.7 percent drop in the price of brokerage and other financial services.
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| Qualcomm opened test facility in Shanghai |
11/16/2016 |
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This is reportedly Qualcomm's first semiconductor manufacturing test facility in the world. The new company will focus on chip and system tests and it will expand to wafer tests in the future.
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| ReRAM startup transfers technology to Leti in France |
11/16/2016 |
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Weebit Nano was founded in 2014 to develop a memory technology invented by Professor James Tour of Rice University with the potential to be 1000 times faster, more reliable, more energy-efficient and cheaper than flash.
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| German Siemens to acquire Mentor Graphics |
11/15/2016 |
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Siemens will pay Mentor Graphics shareholders $37.25 per share, a 21-percent premium to Friday's closing price. Total price comes to $4.5 billion. It expects to fund the deal from cash reserves, Siemens said on Monday.
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