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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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| Breakthrough in solar cells reach 12.1% efficiency |
12/7/2016 |
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Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), said the cell created by her team at UNSW is at least 10 times bigger than the current certified high-efficiency perovskite solar cells on record.
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| MediaTek revenue up 17.6% year to year |
12/7/2016 |
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The companyfs revenue is to expand to US$8.9 billion this year, compared with U$7.59 billion last year, retaining its position as the worldfs third-biggest chip designer.
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| SoftBank to invest beyond $10 billion in India |
12/6/2016 |
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"Many of you speak English, this is the country where I think new technology is going to happen and new excitement is coming...this is the country where I am very much interested in investing,"
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| Another Chinese ambition to acquire silicon technology |
12/6/2016 |
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China’s National Silicon Industry Group, a state-backed semiconductor investment fund, is interested in acquiring a majority stake in German silicon-wafer maker Siltronic AG, the latest potential Chinese takeover that could face political opposition.
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| Samsung filled 36.6% of the NAND market |
12/6/2016 |
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Samsung logged US$3.74 billion in sales from its NAND flash shipment in the July-September period, accounting for 36.6 percent of the global market.
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| Korea Advanced Institute sued on FinFET infringement |
12/5/2016 |
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The state-run research institute confirmed that its intellectually property management arm, KAIST IP, has sued Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm and Global Foundries in a Texas court over the use of KAIST's FinFET technology without permission.
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| Intel plans to put latest NAND technology into SSD on 2017 |
12/5/2016 |
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Intel is planning to begin mass producing new 3D NAND flash products in 2017 to compete for datacenter, professional, consumer and embedded markets. In addition to developing 3D NAND flash, Intel has also been pushing its Optane SSD using 3D XPoint technology.
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| Long time CFO retired from Texas Instruments |
12/5/2016 |
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Texas Instruments said it will name corporate controller, Rafael Lizardi, as its new chief financial officer in February, replacing 32-year veteran Kevin March, who has been CFO for thirteen years, and is retiring at age 58.
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| NAND sales jumped in Q3 |
12/5/2016 |
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Output value for the global NAND flash industry increased 19.6% sequentially to US$10.23 billion in the third quarter of 2016, according to DRAMeXchange.
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| NoteBook computers are switching over to SSD |
12/2/2016 |
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The number of notebooks built to use SSDs, which are based on NAND flash, exceeded analyst expectations this quarter, and the industry is on pace to surpass the 50% adoption rate in the 2017 to 2018 timeframe, according to a report from DRAMeXchange.
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| ChipMos replaced sell out plan to Tsinghua with joint venture |
12/2/2016 |
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After the deal closes, ChipMOS BVI will own 45.02% of ChipMOS Shanghai, while Tsinghua Unigroup, through its subsidiary Tibet Unigroup Guowei Investment, will own 48%. The remaining 6.98% will be held by other strategic investors, including a limited partnership owned by ChipMOS Shanghai's employees.
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