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| Chip sales to grow 5% in 2017 |
12/16/2016 |
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PCs will be the big drag on 2017, declining 2%, with consumer and industrial markets growing at about 4% in line with the overall industry, he estimated, with possible upside from emerging markets in drones and virtual reality. Most of the growth will come in the first half of 2017.
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| Seagate and SK Hynix joint to develope enterprise SSD |
12/15/2016 |
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The joint venture will combine Seagate's expertise in hard disk drives with SK Hynix' complete embedded flash and SSD solutions to create a new player in the enterprise SSD market, which is currently dominated by Samsung and Intel.
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| Consumer survey - Not willing to pay extra for Amazon Go |
12/15/2016 |
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American consumers have yet to be convinced that Amazon Go will actually make things easier for customers. The majority of U.S. adults trust Amazon’s technology and would be willing to try it out. However, they are not ready to pay a premium for a checkout-free shopping experience.
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| Wholesale price jumped 0.4% |
12/15/2016 |
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Excluding volatile food and energy prices, wholesale prices rose 0.4 percent last month and 1.6 percent in the past year.
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| SSD prices up on NAND shortage |
12/14/2016 |
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Due to a shortage of NAND flash memory chips, prices of SSD and eMMC devices are set to rise over 10% sequentially in the first quarter of 2017, according to DRAMeXchange.
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| Trump's "Made in America" plan is easier said than done |
12/13/2016 |
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Trump’s campaign promise may not necessarily translate into actual policies or laws. As laws are created to protect lives and property, no one president could dictate private businesses and their investments.
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| "Make in India" campaign put manufacturers on stop work |
12/13/2016 |
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Local media outlets reported that the contract manufacturer has asked about a fourth of its 8,000-strong workforce to go on paid leave for two weeks—a result of the government's decision to demonetise high value notes in November.
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| What are the options for Aixtron now? |
12/13/2016 |
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There are two options: First, we could hope that the markets for our products recover and continue investing high sums in new equipment. Or Aixtron could shrink, divest technologies and continue with a specialized offering.
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| Nvidia start testing self-driving cars |
12/13/2016 |
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Nvidia was granted a permit yesterday by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self-driving vehicle technology on the state’s public roads.
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| Investors put down $21 million on Carbon Nanotube memory startup |
12/12/2016 |
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The chips based on this super-fast and dense technology can be used in a wide array of markets, and can replace flash memory or dynamic random access memory. In the future, Nantero expects to be able to store terabits of data on a single memory chip.
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| China called off acquisition on Aixtron |
12/9/2016 |
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Its technology is being used to upgrade U.S. and foreign-owned Patriot missile defense systems and the U.S. Treasury said the deal had been blocked due to national security risks.
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| TSMC to spend $16 billion to build advanced fab |
12/9/2016 |
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"We're asking the government to help us find a plot that is large enough and has convenient access so we can build an advanced chip plant to manufacture 5-nanometer and 3nm chips,"
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| Imec to build 8nm magnetic RAM core |
12/9/2016 |
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STT-MRAM has the potential to become the first embedded non-volatile memory technology on advanced logic nodes for advanced applications and is also considered an alternative to DRAM.
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| Win 10 now runs on Snapdragon |
12/9/2016 |
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If successful, the effort will pose the first major challenge to Intel technology in personal computers since the market’s birth in the early 1980s. It’ll also bring to Windows the Qualcomm chips that have been integral to the explosion of mobile computing.
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| Congress questions on Chinese acquisition of Lattice |
12/8/2016 |
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The letter, authored by Representative Mark Pittenger and signed by 22 members of Congress, warns that the acquisition of Lattice by Canyon Bridge Partners would “distort the market and undermine the innovation system.”
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| U.S. factory order up 2.7% |
12/8/2016 |
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Factory orders increased 2.7 percent in October, the best showing since a 2.9 percent rise in June 2015, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. The strength came from a 93.8 percent surge in the volatile category of commercial aircraft.
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| Apple paid to clean up toxic waste |
12/8/2016 |
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The agreement announced Tuesday involves a now-closed plant near Apple's Cupertino, California, headquarters and another one in nearby Sunnyvale.
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