Chip sales fall nearly 14% in 1H19, says IHS
posted on September 10, 2019 10:05
Chip sales during the initial six months of 2019 plunged by 13.9% compared to a year earlier, the biggest drop in a half since the first half of 2009, according to IHS Markit.
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Foundry firms to see diminished revenue growth
posted on September 10, 2019 10:04
Global foundry companies are to see their revenue grow 2.4 percent annually this quarter, falling behind their traditional peak-season growth amid a US-China trade dispute, TrendForce Corp said yesterday.
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Intel Updates Advanced Packaging Technologies at Semicon West, the Latest in a Decade (or more) Evolution
posted on September 10, 2019 10:03
In the last several years, Intel has had a series of announcements in the packaging arena, focused on the integration of multiple styles of chips in the same package to improve performance and broaden system capabilities.
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China needs ‘five to 10 years’ to catch up in semiconductors, Peking University professor Zhou Zhiping says
posted on September 10, 2019 10:02
Semiconductors represent the cornerstone technology of the information age. These tiny devices power the world’s modern economies by serving as the data-processing brains in a wide range of products, from personal computers and smartphones to cars and spacecraft.
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U.S. in No Hurry to Prosecute China’s Stolen Chip Secrets Case
posted on September 10, 2019 10:01
The Trump administration promised to accelerate prosecutions of American intellectual property theft when it announced charges last year against a state-owned company at the vanguard of China’s effort to become a major player in global semiconductors.
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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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