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| Austrian company to build 200mm fab in NY State |
4/22/2016 |
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The new facility will sit on a 450-acre site on vacant land belonging to State University of New York SUNY at Marcy between Utica and Rome, northwest of the state capital of Albany.
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| ARM beats forecasts |
4/22/2016 |
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The British company reported adjusted profit of 137.5 million pounds on revenue, measured in dollars, of $398 million, both slightly beating market forecasts
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| Samsung offers new 10/14 nm process |
4/21/2016 |
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After being ousted as Apple's sole chip fab in 2014, Samsung is looking to reclaim a significant share of orders for iPhone and iPad silicon.
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| EU continue to persue on Google anti-trust |
4/21/2016 |
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EU Antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Wednesday that "Google's behavior denies consumers a wider choice of mobile apps and services and stands in the way of innovation."
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| Intel to cut 12,000 jobs |
4/20/2016 |
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Intel said most of the employees affected by the layoffs will be notified in the next 60 days, while some of the cuts may happen through mid-2017.
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| TSMC to bring on 7nm early for Apple |
4/20/2016 |
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TSMC, confirmed in a Tuesday report to shareholders that it plans to trial 7-nanometer production in the first half of next year, working towards mass production in the first half of 2018.
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| Russian scientist grew ultra-thin ferro memory on silicon |
4/20/2016 |
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Researchers worldwide are seeking a "universal" memory to replace DRAM, SRAM, flash and spinning-disks. Of the many proposals being researched, this one has the advantage of being fabricated on a silicon substrate with conventional tools; it's also potentially fast, dense and nonvolatile.
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| Smartphone shipment dropped in Q1 |
4/19/2016 |
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According to the report, worldwide smartphone shipments were down 18.6 percent from the prior quarter and dipped 1.3 percent year over year.
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| Production interrupted at Sony Kumamoto |
4/19/2016 |
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Sony said it will extend the closure of its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, which is in the southern island of Kyushu, after major tremblors on Thursday and Saturday rocked the key manufacturing region.
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| Global SSD market is heating up |
4/18/2016 |
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An SSD is lighter and more compact than a conventional hard disk drive. It also boasts shorter booting time and faster reading and writing speeds than an HDD.
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| Micron forms storage company in Austin |
4/18/2016 |
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Micron Storage Solutions Center (MSSC), a new facility in the city of Austin focused on software and collaboration, as well as several reference architecture designs and some new enterprise SSDs.
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| Where is memory architecture heading? |
4/18/2016 |
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All of this ties directly into compute architectures, where the next shift may be less about the process used to create the memory than where the memory is placed, how it is packaged, and whether a smaller form factor is useful.
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| Everspin to ship MRAM compatible to DDR4 DRAM |
4/15/2016 |
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“We continue to bring the fastest non volatile products to our customers, expanding our offering with a high density 1Gbit DDR4 pMTJ ST-MRAM. This will provide new and innovative approaches to the way non-volatile memory solutions can be architected,”
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| Foundry sales gained 4.4% in 2015 |
4/15/2016 |
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Foundry sales had grown consistently by double-digit percentages in the years leading up to last year, according to Gartner. In 2014, the foundry market grew by 16%.
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| Is IDT the next target for Chinese take over? |
4/14/2016 |
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On Tuesday (April 12), group of what appear to be mostly Chinese individuals filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) offering to buy Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) for $32 in cash.
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| Intel's Compute Stick now upgraded with Skylake processor |
4/14/2016 |
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Common features in the Compute Sticks include 64GB of storage, 4GB of low-power DDR3 memory, Intel HD Graphics 515 integrated graphics, an HDMI 1.4b port, 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.2, a USB 3.0 slot and a MicroSDXC card reader.
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