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| Alibaba offers new embedded CPU design |
6/17/2021 |
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The product won the first prize in the Zhejiang Science and Technology Awards unveiled on Tuesday, thanks to its innovative breakthroughs in the instruction set, processor architecture and supporting tool chain.
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| IC Insights predicts semi market to rise |
6/17/2021 |
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IC Insights credited its more upbeat forecasts to continued per-bit pricing strength in the DRAM and NAND flash markets as well as a better than expected outlook for many of the logic and analog IC product categories.
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| Hyundai Motor acquired Hyundai Mobis to design its own chips |
6/16/2021 |
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Hyundai Mobis acquired the semiconductor business from family unit Hyundai Autron in December last year. It then formed a new chip designing team under the research and development division for own designing and development early this year.
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| Worldwide sales up 2% Month to Month |
6/15/2021 |
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Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $41.8 billion in April 2021, an increase of 1.9% from the March 2021 total of $41 billion and 21.7% more than the April 2020 total of $34.4 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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| Chip shortage to last for the next few years |
6/15/2021 |
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a surge in chip demand fueled by changing habits has pushed the microchip shortage to crisis levels. As more people worked remotely and most major cities enforced lockdowns, people were more inclined to indulge in hobbies, such as gaming, DIY electronic projects and taking advantage of 5G to video chat with friends and family. Hence, chip demand skyrocketed, leaving companies and manufacturers in a bind, which resulted in increased lead time (the time between ordering and delivery) for new product deployment.
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| Toshiba chairman intends to stay |
6/15/2021 |
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Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) chairman on Monday pushed back against calls from shareholders to resign, saying he wanted to help to put things right at the crisis-hit Japanese conglomerate and would bring in new directors.
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| India's PC market doubles over Q1 |
6/14/2021 |
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Notebooks (including mobile workstations) were the major growth driver, as shipments grew 119% over Q1 2020. Tablets also had one of their biggest quarters since 2016, with 52% year-on-year growth.
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| Better chemistry is needed for the utimate EV battery |
6/12/2021 |
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With reports forecasting a 40% chance that the world’s temperature will rise over the next five years beyond the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius laid out in the Paris climate agreement, it is clear that there’s little time to waste when it comes to creating next-generation batteries, which can easily take another 10 years to fully commercialize.
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| TSMC is chasing the 2nm dream |
6/11/2021 |
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As TSMC’s silicon shrink roadmap appears to end at the 2nm node, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry is turning to a combination of technologies in packaging and new materials to stay on the path of increasing transistor density to boost processing while lowering power demand.
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| Xilinx bought Silexica for its software development tools |
6/11/2021 |
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Silexica’s SLX FPGA tool suite supports developers building applications on FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs. The company's technology will become integrated with the Xilinx Vitis unified software platform and will help to substantially reduce the learning curve for software developers.
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| Counterfeit chips to flood the market amid shortage |
6/11/2021 |
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There, too, demand is surpassing supply – and it is only a question of time before the market is flooded with semiconductors that just about pass for authentic, but in reality, are illegal products that could pose huge safety risks.
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