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| 3D printer to print multi-layer PCB |
9/6/2016 |
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Nano Dimension Technologies has shipped the first DragonFly 2020 system designated for 3D circuitry and PCBs, marking a major milestone for the company.
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| WD to expand on 3D ReRAM |
9/6/2016 |
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Western Digital's plan is to release storage-class memory products based on 3D ReRAM within a couple of years manufactured in the same wafer fab that produces stacked NAND flash memory.
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| TSMC foundary market challenged |
9/6/2016 |
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Tower Semiconductor, which trades as TowerJazz, and Chinese foundry SMIC are expected to enjoy a surge in sales in 2016—partly due to past investments in wafer fabs—and as a result takes market share from market leader TSMC and United Microelectronics Corp.
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| Semi industry in Taiwan is looking for 6% growth next year |
9/5/2016 |
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The nation¡¯s semiconductor industry is expected to see its revenues increase by 6 percent annually next year, supported by robust demand for advanced chips for smartphones, notebook computers, automobiles and other devices.
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| AMD makes move to 7nm migration |
9/5/2016 |
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The 14-nm and 7-nm processes "are the important nodes" for AMD, said a company spokesman in an email. AMD is planning CPUs, GPUs, and custom chip manufacturing.
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| U.S. export on the rise |
9/2/2016 |
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The U.S. trade deficit fell in July as imports declined slightly and exports rose to the highest level in 10 months, a possible sign that global demand for American products is starting to rebound.
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| Ireland to fight EU on Apple tax decision |
9/2/2016 |
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Dublin would fight any adverse ruling ever since the European Union began investigating the U.S. tech giant's Irish tax affairs in 2014, arguing that it had to protect a tax regime that has attracted large numbers of multinational employers.
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| Plastic crystal has non-volatile memory characteristics |
9/2/2016 |
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Advantage of this crystal is its transition to a plastic state when heat is applied. This plasticity – as opposed to fracturing that occurs in regular organic and inorganic crystals when a mechanical stress is applied – makes it attractive for use as a non-volatile ferroelectric RAM.
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| AMD renews contract with GlobalFoundries |
9/2/2016 |
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AMD's new Zen processor, produced at GlobalFoundries, outperformed rival Intel Corp.'s most powerful chip. News of the event boosted AMD shares by 10 percent.
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| New chip connects EV owners to his charging car |
9/1/2016 |
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EV owners will be able to remotely monitor and control the charging of their vehicles from just about anywhere with Wi-Fi, presenting dozens of potential use cases from home automation to checking the availability of nearby public charge points.
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| Shareholders approved sales of ARM |
9/1/2016 |
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SoftBank swooped on the Apple supplier in July, agreeing to pay $32 billion in cash for ARM. ARM said that more than 95 percent of the votes cast on Tuesday approved the takeover.
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| Debate on message encryption continue |
9/1/2016 |
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The American people, have a reasonable expectation of privacy in private spaces — including houses, cars and electronic devices. But that right is not absolute when law enforcement has probable cause to believe that there's evidence of a crime in one of those places.
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| Samsung starts mass production on 14nm Exynos 7570 |
8/31/2016 |
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The Exynos 7570 is a quad-core processor, featuring four energy efficient Cortex-A53 cores. This certainly isn’t the most powerful CPU configuration around, but Samsung is building the chip on its cutting edge 14nm manufacturing process.
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| Iris and face-recognition smartphones are forth coming |
8/31/2016 |
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Fujitsu and Samsung Electronics have both introduced their flagship smartphones with embedded iris scanners for 2016, while smartphone and other mobile-device vendors are looking to bring facial recognition technology to their devices.
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| Littlefuse move to divest ON Semiconductors |
8/30/2016 |
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The FTC ruling states: “The proposed consent order, preserves competition by requiring ON to divest its Ignition IGBT business to Chicago-based manufacturer Littelfuse, Inc. within 10 days of the close of the transaction. The divestiture will include design files and intellectual property that Littelfuse needs to manufacture ON’s Ignition IGBTs.”
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| Intel wants to be Apple's foundry |
8/30/2016 |
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"We can do design, and we can do assembly and test. We have remarkable sources and we will bring these capabilities to our customers as well."
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| Samsung smartphone outsells Apple in Taiwan |
8/29/2016 |
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Samsung made up 25 percent of the total smartphone sales volume in Taiwan last month, ahead of PC brand Asustek Computer Inc. (‰Ø×) with 15.8 percent, Taiwan-based vendor HTC Corp. (G’B“d) with 15 percent, Apple Inc. of the United States with 14.2 percent, and Japan's Sony Corp. with 8.9 percent.
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