Samsung mulls slowing expansion of chip facilities in 2019
posted on January 03, 2019 07:05
Samsung Electronics, the world’s No. 1 memory chip provider, is considering slowing the pace of expanding its production facilities next year amid negative forecasts about growth of the global semiconductor market, according to the industry on Tuesday.
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Global Semiconductor Sales Up 9.8 Percent Year-to-Year in November
posted on January 03, 2019 07:04
WASHINGTON—Dec. 31, 2018—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $41.4 billion for the month of November 2018, an increase of 9.8 percent from the November 2017 total of $37.7 billion and 1.1 percent less than the October 2018 total of $41.8 billion.
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Researchers Explore Emerging Memories for AI
posted on January 03, 2019 07:03
TORONTO — Resistive random access memory (ReRAM) and other emerging memory technologies have been getting a lot of attention in the past year as semiconductor companies look for ways to more efficiently deal with the requirements of artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing
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Foxconn May Use Sharp to Roll out First Chip Fab
posted on January 03, 2019 07:02
TAIPEI — Foxconn, the main assembler of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, is expected to flex its majority stake in Japan’s Sharp to build its first chip fab, according to analysts.
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What’s The Right Path For Scaling?
posted on January 03, 2019 07:01
The growing challenges of traditional chip scaling at advanced nodes are prompting the industry to take a harder look at different options for future devices.
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Intel plans 'stacked' circuits in bid to regain its chipmaking lead
posted on December 16, 2018 17:05
(Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Wednesday that it has developed a way to stack its computing circuits on top of one another in a bid to regain the lead in chip manufacturing technology that it has lost to rivals like Taiwan Semiconductor Co Ltd (5425.TWO) in recent years.
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Explainer: What is China's Huawei Technologies and why is it controversial?
posted on December 16, 2018 17:04
(Reuters) - The arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, a top executive at China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and daughter of the founder and CEO, jolted the global business community on Thursday and raised fears that a truce in the U.S.-China trade war could come to a swift end.
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Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 12.7 Percent Year-to-Year in October; Double-Digit Annual Growth Projected for 2018
posted on December 16, 2018 17:03
WASHINGTON—Dec. 3, 2018—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $41.8 billion for the month of October 2018, an increase of 12.7 percent from the October 2017 total of $37.1 billion and 1.0 percent more than last month’s total of $41.4 billion.
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Samsung’s big semi capex spending keeps pressure on competition
posted on December 16, 2018 17:02
IC Insights revised its outlook for total semiconductor industry capital spending and presented its forecast of semiconductor capex spending for individual companies in its November Update to The McClean Report 2018, which was released earlier this month.
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New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors
posted on December 16, 2018 17:01
It is widely predicted that the doubling of silicon transistors per unit area every two years will come to an end around 2025 as the technology reaches its physical limits. But researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, believe a metal-based field emission air channel transistor (ACT) they have developed could maintain transistor doubling for another two decades.
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