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| Semi sales down 2.8% in Q3 |
11/4/2015 |
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By region, sales rose 5% year-on-year in China while slumping 10.6% in Europe and dropping 3.9% in the Americas.
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| Manufacturers continue to be optimistic |
11/4/2015 |
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October PMI indicates growth for the 77th consecutive month in the overall economy, and indicates expansion in the manufacturing sector for the 34th consecutive month.
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| Micron offers XTRM NOR Flash |
11/3/2015 |
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"Micron's new XTRMFlash will replace both parallel and serial flash over the next few years--except perhaps in some low-density applications.”
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| MediaTek targets at 150 million LTE chip this year |
11/3/2015 |
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MediaTek occupies a sweet spot in China, the largest market for smartphones, where it sells most of its chips to handset makers such as Xiaomi, the number-three supplier after Apple and Samsung.
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| HP splitted into two companies |
11/3/2015 |
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HP Inc. will sell personal computers and printers; Hewlett Packard Enterprise will sell commercial computer systems, software and tech services. Starting Monday, each will trade separately on the New York Stock Exchange.
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| Manufacturers see display market slumps |
11/2/2015 |
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The global economic growth slowdown, in addition to smartphones, the demand for all categories of LCD panels have obviously declined where the tablet PCs is going to face a largest downward of about 25%.
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| Foundries in China are going for FD-SOI process |
11/2/2015 |
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FD-SOI is characterized by lower forward voltage and operating voltage requirements and also more power saving. Meanwhile, the operating cost of FD-SOI per circuit is lower than that of FinFET. However, the FD-SOI process has not been scaling down as well as FinFET.
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| What is to keep semi growing after the smartphone? |
11/2/2015 |
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The next phase isn’t about shrinking features every couple years or adding more functionality onto a chip. It’s about customizing chips for specific markets quickly, packaging them in new ways, and building all of this for a reasonable cost with low power and an overriding security architecture.
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| IBM researchers found formula for advance ReRAM |
10/30/2015 |
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IBM researchers said they overcame stubborn challenges in building computer memory out of carbon instead of silicon, which could allow for systems that are faster and sturdier than conventional flash memory or RAM.
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| Texas Instrument in negotiation to acquire Maxium |
10/30/2015 |
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The talks are continuing and may not result in a transaction. Maxim, based in San Jose, California, jumped 9.3 percent to $42.01 at the close in New York, giving the company a market value of about $11.9 billion.
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| $15 Smartphone aimed for India market |
10/29/2015 |
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DataWind, a Canadian manufacturer, and Indian service provider Reliance Communications (RCom) are collaborating on a smartphone for India that will cost 999 rupees (the equivalent of $15.
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| ST Micro to make offer for Fairchild Semiconductor |
10/29/2015 |
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The Geneva-based company has conducted analysis as it explores an offer for the U.S. chipmaker Fairchild Semiconductor, said the people, asking not to be identified discussing internal deliberations.
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| Qualcomm to put LTE with cameras |
10/28/2015 |
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Qualcomm has created a reference design for new home monitoring cameras, and at the core of them is its Snapdragon 618 processor.
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| Oracle rolls out new M7 Sparc processor |
10/28/2015 |
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A query accelerator engine performs specific lookup functions that are part of the data query process, which the company said can improve performance by up to 10 times.
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| Dell set up engineering team to help IoT customers |
10/27/2015 |
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Michael Dell said during a keynote speech. “[Machine-to-machine] communications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, drones, [and] enormous amounts of sensors are the next trillion dollar opportunity for growth in connectivity. The ability of business to compete will be its ability to process and analyze that application.”
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