Entries for July 2019
Debate Over Health Of Moore’s Law Continues
posted on July 18, 2019 10:05
Semicon West 2019 was kicked off by the ‘AI Design Forum’ and featured a panel of CEOs that debated if Moore’s Law was still making power, performance and area optimization possible in the same way as it had been.
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Intel: New chip materials will enable massive AI research gains
posted on July 18, 2019 10:04
In a recent survey conducted by Lopez Research, 86% of companies said they thought AI would be of strategic significance to their business, while only 36% believed they’d actually made meaningful progress with AI. Why the disparity? Intel VP and CTO of AI products Amir Khosrowshahi and general manager of IoT Jonathan Ballon shared their thoughts onstage at VentureBeat’s 2019 Transform conference in San Francisco.
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Global semiconductor equipment sales to contract 18.4% in 2019, says SEMI
posted on July 18, 2019 10:03
Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to drop 18.4% to US$52.7 billion in 2019 from last year's historic high of US$64.5 billion, according to SEMI.
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Intel Highlights Chiplet Advances
posted on July 18, 2019 10:02
Talk to anybody in the semiconductor industry these days and all they seem to want to talk about is chiplets, the latest development in SOC (system on chip) designs. The basic rationale behind chiplets is that several different developments are making the industry’s traditional method of building increasingly larger chips less appealing, both technically and financially
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Japanese curbs seen as chance for South Korean chipmakers to cut stockpiles
posted on July 18, 2019 10:01
SEOUL (Reuters) - Shares in South Korean memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc rose on Wednesday as investors bet on production cuts due to curbs on the export of key materials from Japan, analysts said.
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