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| Samsung dedicated processor for wearable health monitoring |
12/30/2015 |
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According to Soreon Research, the wearables market could be worth more than $41 billion in 2020, which is why some companies are planning to get a piece of the billion-dollar pie by offering high-tech products with sophisticated capabilities.
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| Chairman of China Telecom being investigated |
12/29/2015 |
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ongoing corruption investigations have already included leading politicians, bosses of state enterprises and senior bankers. The party watchdog cracked down on more than 70 senior officials at state firms in 2014.
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| Intel completd merger of Altera |
12/29/2015 |
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In August, Jason Waxman, vice president of Intel’s cloud platform group, said he expected that FGPAs could represent a third of the processors running all data center operations in 2020.
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| Renesas 6 month CEO resigned |
12/29/2015 |
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Renesas has appointed Tetsuya Tsurumaru, the Representative Director, President and COO to the position of Representative Director, President and CEO effective immediatelyy.
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| Hon Hei proposed to buy Sharp |
12/28/2015 |
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The proposed acquisition price is about 50 percent higher than Sharp's current market value, indicating that Hon Hai wants to use the good offer to gain the upper hand and win consensus from the Japanese firm during negotiations for the acquisition.
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| Mediatek Helio X20 scores high on benchmark |
12/28/2015 |
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Mediatek Helio X20 chipset (or SoC) that has not quite gone under the spotlight as much as the Snapdragon 820 from Qualcomm, but it has appeared on a GeekBench posting with some rather impressive results.
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| AMD to use Samsung foundry services |
12/23/2015 |
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Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Foundry Business Department will start mass-producing AMD’s new GPU ‘Greenland (development code name)’ along with Global Foundry (GF) starting from 2nd quarter of 2016.
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| Startup offers new low-K dielectric material for semiconductor |
12/23/2015 |
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SBA Materials has an impressive roster of investors – Intel Capital (through three rounds in two years), Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Air Liquide Venture Capital, Tokyo Electron Venture Capital, Rock Hankin, William Cook (a co-founder and former CEO of the startup), Southern Cross Venture Partners, and Sun Mountain Capital.
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| Packaging Conference full of TSV presentations |
12/22/2015 |
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Attendees heard presentations from executives of Amkor Technology, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Northrop Grumman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, and Xilinx, among other companies.
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| Toshiba to spin off mainstay flash memory chip division |
12/21/2015 |
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Toshiba has gained a competitive edge in the market for NAND flash memory, used in smartphones, tablet devices and other products, but has faced fierce competition with foreign rivals, including Samsung Electronics Co.
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| ARM wants to supply system and software also |
12/21/2015 |
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To address the market for internet-connected IoT devices, for example, ARM has partnered with IBM to create a complete IoT development platform with hardware, embedded software and cloud computing services.
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| Six pleaded guity on selling counterfeit software |
12/21/2015 |
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The case involved more than $100 million worth of stolen or counterfeit software products, including about 170,000 access codes for Adobe Systems and Microsoft products, including Windows 7 and Windows XP.
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| Cypress to sell classified fab |
12/18/2015 |
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The fab is accredited by the U.S. government as a "Trusted Foundry" making it suitable for use in some classified and unclassified programs and comes with 416 manufacturing production tools.
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| It’s a mixed bag for memory in 2016 |
12/18/2015 |
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The WFE market for DRAM is projected to fall by 10% to 20% in 2016, according to Stifel, Nicolaus. But thanks to strong SSD demand, the WFE market for NAND is expected to grow by 10% to 20% in 2016.
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| Arrest made in VTech game hacking case |
12/18/2015 |
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The hacking of VTech Holdings' Learning Lodge database in November reportedly compromised the personal information of 6.4 million children and 4.9 million affiliated parent accounts.
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