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| EPA to relax testing on formaldhyde |
5/7/2015 |
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A recent article in The New York Times attributed the changes to complaints by a wide array of critics, from furniture industry lobbyists and flooring retailers to the Chinese government and lawmakers from across the political spectrum.
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| Oversupply affect prices on TV panel |
5/6/2015 |
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The rising inventory of TV panels will lead to lower prices in Q2 and Q3 of this year. The LCD TV panel production/demand ratio rose from two per cent undersupply in 3Q14 to one per cent oversupply in 4Q14 and four per cent oversupply in 1Q15 and is expected to continue growing to six per cent in 2Q15.
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| LED industry is going through consolidation |
5/6/2015 |
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the global LED industry is following steps that the semiconductor industry experienced a few years earlier. After bankruptcies and exits, the chip industry is now being controlled by three players.
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| Korean FTC likely to fine Qualcomm for breaking FRAND terms |
5/6/2015 |
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Qualcomm currently collects royalty payments from clients that are calculated based on the price of the handset, not the price of the chip. The company reportedly collects around 5 percent of the sales price of smartphones that use its chips.
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| U.S. factory orders up |
5/6/2015 |
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Economists are hoping that U.S. manufacturing is beginning to emerge from a long soft patch, bolstered by stronger domestic demand that will offset ongoing weakness in exports.
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| IBM found ways to control drift on PCM memories |
5/5/2015 |
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IBM Research presented a paper outlining how it dealt with the phenomenon of resistance drift and the impact of temperature, which has been a barrier to MLC PCM. Known by a number of different names, including PRAM and C-RAM, PCM is one of the more mature, emerging non-volatile memories (NVM), offering low read/write latency, high throughput performance and high endurance.
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| Jabil opens Blue Sky Innovation Center in Silicon Valley |
5/5/2015 |
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Blue Sky Center is “about boundless creativity” – creating an environment for Jabil employees to collaborate with customers on ideas for new products, prototyping new product designs, and handing off designs to its plants.
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| China not likely to develop own DRAM technology in 5 years |
5/5/2015 |
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China might be able to gain access to proprietary technologies through technology licensing, but building a certain scale of production capacity would still require a period of time. That means China's impact on the memory industry would not be felt until after 2-3 years,
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| OmniVision to go private with Chinese investment |
5/4/2015 |
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Chinese state-owned investment firms bought several U.S.-listed chipmakers in the last two years, including Montage Technology Group, Spreadtrum Communications Inc and RDA Microelectronics Inc.
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| Senate introduced PATENT act to counter patent trolls |
5/4/2015 |
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The bill would increase notice and transparency standards for defendants in patent cases, as well as alter the potentially expensive legal discovery process. It would also limit lawsuits based on product purchases, create standards for demand letters from plaintiffs and enable defendants to recover legal fees.
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| Macronix lifted by NAND shipment |
5/1/2015 |
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NAND flash products accounted for 6% of net sales, an increase of 286% year-over-year and a sequential increase of 10%. The unit shipments of Flash increased 342% year-over-year and decreased 3% sequentially.
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| ASUS switching from Intel mobile chips to Qualcomm |
5/1/2015 |
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ASUS CEO Jerry Shen, he revealed that the company could be thinking of turning to Qualcomm’s chipsets in the future. Now for Intel fans you can rest assured that ASUS will not be abandoning Intel’s chipsets entirely. Instead it has been suggested that maybe Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 615 chipsets might be used for the company’s mid-range devices.
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| UMC to build JV fab in Xiamen |
5/1/2015 |
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The factory, which will begin production in late 2016, will produce mobile and communication device chips for the Chinese market.
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| Chrysler CEO - skyrocket development cost will led to consolidations |
5/1/2015 |
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The main problem, Marchionne says, is that the auto industry spends enormous amounts developing proprietary parts, such as engines and transmissions, that make no difference to the consumer. He estimated FCA could save $2.7 billion to $5 billion each year by sharing product development costs with another automaker.
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| Apple achieved record revenue |
4/30/2015 |
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The company reported a 27 per cent increase in sales compared to the same quarter last year. Profits climbed at $13.6 billion.
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| Smallest smart tire pressure monitor gets smarter |
4/30/2015 |
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"We are entering the era of the smart tire, one that can tell you when and how it needs to be rotated, when it needs to be replaced and other prognostic diagnostics, instead of just telling you how much pressure it holds and when it needs to be aired up,"
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| Samsung - Still the memory chip company |
4/30/2015 |
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Of the numbers disclosed by Samsung Electronics, its memory business within the semiconductor division was the only item to post an increase in revenue, up 2 percent.
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| Samsung to create Exynos M1 custom core |
4/29/2015 |
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By creating the custom core, Samsung could improve power efficiency or add instructions that are optimized for its software on a mobile device. KitGuru notes the Exynos M1 could support the use of GPU processors for a wider range of tasks since Samsung is a founding member of the HSA Foundation.
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| Silicon Motion moving forward with SSD and eMMC |
4/29/2015 |
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Silicon Motion posted net sales of US$80.6 million in the first quarter, up slightly from US$80.5 million in the fourth quarter, bucking seasonal trends. Gross margin for the quarter stayed high at 52%, while net profits came to US$16.6 million.
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| Amazon creates new B2B services |
4/29/2015 |
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Amazon Business has been designed to provide easy access to hundreds of millions of products – everything from IT and lab equipment to education and food service supplies – as well as business-only selection and pricing.
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| Microsoft to end Windows Server 2003 support this summer |
4/29/2015 |
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CNNMoney reported that 21 percent of all servers are still running Windows Server 2003, while 97 percent of data centers still use the software on a computer somewhere in the building. That means there is the potential for millions of computer servers to be hacking targets.
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