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Tuesday 18 August 2020
Aiming for market leadership, Macronix advances to 19nm serial NAND and advocates for ECC being handled by SoC processors
The need for memory solutions in embedded systems is rapidly increasing, in line with the surging growth of Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and 5G-enabled...
Friday 14 August 2020
Qualcomm-equipped 5G smartphones fastest, says Strategy Analytics
Tests of 5G smartphone downlink speed in the US and UK by Ookla show that smartphones using the 5G millimeter wave bands, on average, achieve blazingly fast downlink speeds 20 times...
Friday 14 August 2020
Dialog announces compatibility of octal SPI NOR flash with Renesas MPU
Dialog Semiconductor has announced that its EcoXiP octal xSPI non-volatile memory (NVM), which was added to Dialog's portfolio through its recent acquisition of Adesto Technologies,...
Wednesday 12 August 2020
China smartphone AP shipments, 2Q 2020

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Friday 31 July 2020
NAND flash, DRAM to remain largest IC market segments
DRAM and NAND flash are expected to repeat as the two largest IC segments again in 2020 after holding the same positions in 2019, according to IC Insights.
Tuesday 28 July 2020
TSMC unlikely to build additional capacity for Intel orders
TSMC internally does not consider orders for Intel's processors as long-term ones, and therefore is unlikely to build additional production capacity for the new contract, according...
Friday 24 July 2020
Intel reports record 2Q20 sales
Intel achieved record second-quarter revenues with 34% data-centric revenue growth and 7% PC-centric revenue growth on year. These results were driven by strong sales of cloud, notebook,...
Wednesday 22 July 2020
AMD announces availability of new APUs for OEMs
AMD has announced new 7nm x86 desktop processors with built-in graphics for consumer and commercial PC markets. The AMD Ryzen 4000 series desktop processors with Radeon Graphics and...
Monday 20 July 2020
Samsung struggling to improve 5nm process yield, say sources
It remains to be seen whether unsatisfactory yield rates at Samsung Electronics' 5nm EUV process may affect the launch of Qualcomm's next-generation flagship 5G mobile chip series,...
Friday 10 July 2020
Imec, GF claim breakthrough in AI chip
Imec and Globalfoundries (GF) have jointly announced a hardware demonstration of a new artificial intelligence chip. Based on Imec's analog in memory computing (AiMC) architecture...
Thursday 9 July 2020
Microsoft releases new Surface devices in Taiwan
Microsoft has launched three new Surface products, the Book 3, Go 2 and Pro X, in Taiwan, targeting the work-from-home user group.
Monday 6 July 2020
Taiwan IC substrate makers to benefit from China locally-developed CPUs, GPUs
As demand for locally-developed CPUs and GPUs in China continues rising amid the US trade sanctions against Chinese IT enterprises, Taiwan-based IC substrate suppliers are expected...
Friday 3 July 2020
Xiaomi, MediaTek reportedly team up for custom smartphone chips
Chinese handset vendor Xiaomi reportedly will work more closely with MediaTek to jointly develop customized SoCs for 5G smartphones after having its Redmi 10X series adopt the chipmaker's...
Wednesday 1 July 2020
Backend firms expect chip shipments for new Xbox to surge in 3Q20
Backend houses are gearing up for shipments for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series game consoles slated to debut at the end of July, and expect shipments for the new consoles to peak...
Thursday 18 June 2020
Intel, TSMC gearing up for heterogeneous 3D IC integration
Intel has launched its first heterogeneous chip architecture made using its Foveros 3D chip stacking technology, while TSMC is looking to commercialize its SoIC (system on integrated...