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| Manufacturing technology order down |
6/16/2016 |
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AMT member companies report strong levels of quotation activity, but longer conversion rates for order placement. Manufacturing companies are resistant to make investments in capital equipment out of a sense of caution.
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| Apple wants into renewable energy distributions |
6/16/2016 |
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Apple formed a subsidiary called Apple Energy LLC in Delaware to be operated from the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. It wants to sell that excessive solar energy to end-users at market rates.
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| IBM has tri-level PCM |
6/15/2016 |
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The company claimed last month that it can now put three bits of data per cell (called Triple-Level Cell PCM), which, as IDG notes, is “50 percent more than the company showed off in 2011 with a two-bit form of PCM.
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| Intel to ship 3D XPoint memory this year |
6/15/2016 |
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It's 1,000 times faster than NAND. On top of being faster than current NAND flash memory it's also 10 times more dense meaning enhanced storage in a smaller space.
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| Microsoft offers $26.2 Billion to buy LinkedIn |
6/14/2016 |
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Jeff Weiner will stay on as CEO of LinkedIn and will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The deal was unanimously approved by both companies' boards, and is expected to close by the end of the year.
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| New smartphones to drive memory market in 2H |
6/14/2016 |
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The oversupply's end will be due to the rollouts of new Android and iPhone models apparently this started "since the middle of June." The issue is not that there are more smartphones.
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| Menta offers embedded eFPGA IP |
6/14/2016 |
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One benefit of embedding an FPGA fabric as an IP core in a chip, says Menta, is that it allows designers to update the silicon at will post production, without re-spinning silicon.
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| Netflix to design UHD streaming hardware in Taiwan |
6/14/2016 |
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Netflix this week launched its Taiwan office in Hsinchu and hired a local engineering team, which is to be in charge of providing certification services for SoC manufacturers, connected TVs, game consoles, set-top boxes and mobile devices.
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| Notebook shipment to rebound |
6/13/2016 |
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.“We previously estimated that this quarter’s notebook shipments would grow about 10 percent from last quarter’s [8.4 million units]. Now we think shipments are likely to grow 20 percent quarter-on-quarter,” a Quanta investor relations official told The Taipei Times.
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| GPU is a key element in Big Data Server |
6/13/2016 |
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Meanwhile, in the graphics world, the sort of advancing performance that occurred in computing a decade ago is still happening. Nvidia's latest 1080 chip announcement almost hit the mark of twice the performance for half the cost of its Titan X predecessor.
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| 19 new fabs scheduled for 2016/17 |
6/13/2016 |
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Breaking down the 19 projects by wafer size, 12 of the fabs and lines are for 300mm (12-inch), four for 200mm, and three LED fabs (150mm, 100mm, and 50mm).
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| TSMC target to raise cash dividends |
6/10/2016 |
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>gOur mission is to create better returns for company shareholders, regardless of weak macroeconomic conditions and a sluggish worldwide semiconductor industry,h Chang said.
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| Many vehicle recalls are attributed to software |
6/9/2016 |
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New vehicles can contain more than 10 times the amount of code in an F-35 joint strike fighter jet. “When you have that much software in a car — and particularly when much of that software is relatively new — there are going to be some issues."
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| U.S. Manufacturing on continue growth |
6/9/2016 |
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PMI registered 51.3 percent, an increase of 0.5 percentage point from the April reading of 50.8 percent, indicating growth in manufacturing for the third consecutive month, following five consecutive months of contraction in manufacturing.
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| GlobalFoundries to make chips for U.S. Pentagon |
6/8/2016 |
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The Pentagon has agreed to a seven-year contract with GlobalFoundries to supply microchips for U.S. spy satellites, missiles and combat jets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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| 3D NAND enables large size client SSD |
6/8/2016 |
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With useful flash memory storage available for client devices for less than $500 and often less than $200 many consumers are replacing their HDDs with flash memory, or ordering computers with SSDs rather than HDDs.
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