Entries for August 2019
China's No. 2 player to launch 5G chip in 2020 to rival Qualcomm
posted on August 12, 2019 15:05
TAIPEI/SHANGHAI -- China's second-largest mobile chip developer aims to launch a 5G chipset in 2020, far earlier than previously planned, to catch up with global leaders Qualcomm and MediaTek and tap demand from local companies looking to end their dependence on U.S. suppliers.
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Mid-Year Global Semiconductor Sales Down 14.5 Compared to 2018
posted on August 12, 2019 15:04
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $98.2 billion during the second quarter of 2019, a small increase of 0.3 percent over the previous quarter, but 16.8 percent less than the second quarter of last year.
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South Korean chip giants face 'strangling' from Japanese export curbs
posted on August 12, 2019 15:03
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean chipmakers are hitting a dead end in their quest to find alternatives for key Japanese materials that have been slapped with export restrictions, raising the prospect of major disruption to their operations in the coming months.
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FTLE 421: Intel Showcases Co-EMIB Advanced Packaging Architecture
posted on August 12, 2019 15:02
Building on their previous announcements of its embedded interconnect bridge, EMIB, ( see IFTLE 324 “Intel EMIB Implementation in the Stratix MX”) and Foveros technologies (see IFTLE 400 “Intel Logic-Logic 3DIC and Chiplets are Finally Here”), Intel, as a prequel to SEMICON West this year, hosted a media/analyst event to provide details on its three new enabling technologies for advanced packaging: Co-EMIB (using EMIB and Foveros together), managed data input/output (MDIO) and Omni-directional interconnect (ODI).
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DRAM Tradeoffs: Speed Vs. Energy
posted on August 12, 2019 15:01
Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about new DRAM options and considerations with Frank Ferro, senior director of product management at Rambus; Marc Greenberg, group director for product marketing at Cadence; Graham Allen, senior product marketing manager for DDR PHYs at Synopsys; and Tien Shiah, senior manager for memory marketing at Samsung Electronics
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