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| China's ambition is to buy Globalfoundries |
9/1/2015 |
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Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Investment (ATIC), which happens to be a major shareholder of Globalfoundries, is rumored to release its holdings from the company, which will make the acquisition deal ever so simple for Hua Capital Management of China.
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| Inel made equity investment on drone manufacturer |
9/1/2015 |
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In a very short period of time, drones have gone from being viewed as pricey hobbyist toys to an enticing technology with serious commercial applications, including agriculture, construction, product delivery and others.
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| Artificial leaf converts sunlight into hydrogen |
8/31/2015 |
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The technology uses the sun’s energy to split water to make hydrogen for storing solar energy or for use as fuel. A photovoltaic material captures photons and generates electrons, which are passed on to chemical catalysts to do the water splitting.
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| Taiwan SEMICON show to host more than 700 exhibitors |
8/31/2015 |
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SEMICON Taiwan tradeshow will kick off on September 2 and run through September 4 at the TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall. The show will host more than 700 exhibiting companies with more than 1,400 booths.
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| Six innovative ways to change your driving experience |
8/31/2015 |
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The major automakers, as well as tech giants such as Google and possibly Apple, are laying the groundwork for the first driverless cars. Meanwhile, a number of engineers and entrepreneurs have started their own companies to tackle other automotive challenges.
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| Amazon trims down smartphone team |
8/28/2015 |
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The Fire phone, launched in July 2014, met with a tepid consumer response. The company began slashing the price of the phone that Fall, and despite continued and aggressive price cuts the product never gained traction in the market.
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| TSMC won court ruling on employee stealing |
8/28/2015 |
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On Monday, Taiwan's Supreme Court ruled in favor of TSMC in its lawsuit against Liang Mong-song, an executive who left the company back in 2009, and allegedly gave trade secrets to Samsung.
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| Stop leaks quick |
8/28/2015 |
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Researchers from the University of Michigan recently developed a new material capable of healing itself from a puncture.
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| Microsoft Win10 clocks 75 million users |
8/27/2015 |
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On Wednesday, a little under a month after launch, Microsoft said Windows 10 is now on more than 75 million devices worldwide. More than 90,000 unique PC and tablet models have upgraded to Windows 10 to date.
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| Chinese government announce support for IC design industry |
8/27/2015 |
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Since most China-based IC-design houses are at their infant stages at present, it is an established policy of the China government to provide financial support to local IC companies to acquire related businesses globally for capacity ramps or technology upgrades.
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| SK Hynix dedicates new fab at Icheon |
8/27/2015 |
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M14 is a semiconductor factory for 300 mm wafers, and the first new factory built by SK Hynix in Icheon in 18 years. The site of the factory is 53,000 square meters, which equals the size of 7.5 football fields.
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| Tim Cook see continue market growth in China |
8/26/2015 |
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"Growth in iPhone activations has actually accelerated over the past few weeks, and we have had the best performance of the year for the App Store in China during the last 2 weeks."
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| Innovative memory module made out of MRAM |
8/26/2015 |
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This is the first time the M.2 form factor has been used to house MRAM. To date, the M.2 standard has been used for either SATA or PCI Express (PCIe) SSDs, having replaced the mSATA standard.
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| SK Hynix put heavy investment into image sensor company |
8/25/2015 |
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Hyperspectral sensors are expected to have applications in food processing, automotive and industrial vision and sorting, construction and medical applications, such as providing diabetic sufferers with bloodless glucose monitoring.
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| AMS to build new fab in NY State |
8/25/2015 |
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Analogue and sensor specialist ams says it will create more than 1000 jobs and invest more than $2billion over the next 20 years to support the construction of a fab in New York state.
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| Semi companies flock to TSMC 16nm FinFET process |
8/25/2015 |
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While securing a portion of Apple's A9 chip orders, TSMC with its 16nm FinFET node has also obtained orders from AMD, Avago, Broadcom, HiSilicon Technologies, LG Electronics, MediaTek, Nvidia and Xilinx.
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