Entries for December 2020
Why Car? Here’s What We Think Apple Wants from ‘iCar
posted on December 31, 2020 05:05
According to a report from Reuters, Apple is targeting production of a passenger car starting in 2024. Rumors of the “iCar”, also known as Project Titan, have been circulating and recirculating for years, but its time may have finally come. Let’s look at that idea in more detail.
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A Glimpse of IEDM 2020
posted on December 31, 2020 04:04
The IEDM conference always has a great display of leading-edge technology in the papers, but I always find a great balance of research and development projects, leading-edge, and mainstream technologies at the conference. Over the years, I focused primarily on leading-edge technologies in both mainstream memory and logic, to help determine forecasts, and to help my clients understand what technologies might be coming down the road that they should either prepare for or have a development project already in place.
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Variation Threat In Advanced Nodes, Packages Grows
posted on December 31, 2020 03:03
Variation is becoming a much bigger and more complex problem for chipmakers as they push to the next process nodes or into increasingly dense advanced packages, raising concerns about the functionality and reliability of individual devices, and even entire systems.
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Looming 'chip super-cycle' to hike prices benefiting Samsung, SK
posted on December 31, 2020 02:02
With the stay-at-home lifestyle now established throughout the world as people seek shelter from the COVID-19 pandemic, Korea's foundry and memory chip businesses are seeing explosive chip demand, industry analysts said Tuesday.
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Chip giants Intel and Nvidia face new threats from Amazon to Google to Apple
posted on December 31, 2020 01:01
The world’s largest semiconductor companies face a growing competitive threat: their biggest customers making their own chips tailored to the supercharged areas of cloud-computing and artificial intelligence.
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