Chipset Nvidia’s new headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., which is USD370M investment, will be 500,000ft2 housing more than 2,200 employees when it is finished in the fall of 2017. (CN Beta, Venture Beat) Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced collaborating with… Read more ›
Chipset “Wired” editor Cade Metz indicates that AI development is shaking up the chip market—Today, Internet giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and China’s Baidu are exploring a wide range of chip technologies that can drive AI forward, and the… Read more ›
Soon we are counting down the end of 2016, but first this week: Headlines: Qualcomm is buying NXP Semiconductors with total value USD47B Samsung’s first MediaTek-powered Galaxy Grand Prime Plus (Eastern Europe) or J2 Prime (South America) Samsung has announced… Read more ›
Chipset In China, consolidation will also take place within the three broad sections of the semiconductor sector, namely foundry, IC testing/packaging and fabless design. According to TrendForce, various Chinese semiconductor enterprises will be integrated under the “virtual IDM” model during… Read more ›
This summary makes use of Gartner’s 3Q16 forecast data. It reports the mobile devices, including smartphones, feature phones and tablets in 2015-2020 development. Smartphone penetration makes use of the installed base and the population trend from United Nation. 2015-2020 Smartphone… Read more ›
Chipset Intel launching Atom E3900 processor series, focusing on the Internet of Things. At its core there are 2 or 4 Goldmont CPU cores, paired with 12 or 18 EU configurations of Intel’s Gen9 iGPU, and they have TDP ratings… Read more ›
Chipset The global tablet Applications Processor (AP) market declined 34% YoY falling to USD889M in 1H16. According to Strategy Analytics, Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek and Samsung LSI captured the top-5 revenue share rankings in the tablet AP market in 1H16.… Read more ›
Chipset With the exception of Intel’s Atom processor, all AP vendors use ARM cores, so there are not many differences in the CPU architecture. Gartner has collected current major platform information of AP vendors. (Gartner report) Gartner illustrates the major… Read more ›
Chipset International Business Strategies (IBS) estimates 2.2M 10/7 nm wafers will be sold in 2025 with an average wafer price of USD8,000 creating a USD17.6B market up from first year sales of 322,000 wafers in 2017. Key customers will include… Read more ›
Chipset Synopsys announced the successful tape-out of multiple customer test chips with DesignWare Logic Libraries and Embedded Memories for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET process. (TMCNet, Yahoo, iTer News, TechNews, China Times, Sohu) TSMC has reported a new company high in net… Read more ›
Chipset Globalfoundries remained unprofitable in in 1H16 with losses topping USD1.3M. The government of Chongqing has put on hold a deal with Globalfoundries for a joint venture 12” fab. (TechNews, Digitimes, press, EE Focus) AMD’s 3Q16 income is a record… Read more ›
Chipset IC Insights has raised its IC market forecast for 2016 by 3 percentage points from a 2% decline to a 1% increase and its 2016 IC unit volume shipment growth rate forecast from 4% to 6%. A large portion… Read more ›
The main objective of this document is to provide an overview on current battery technologies research and development, and it only has scratched the surface. The listed technologies are only examples deemed representative of particular segment, and far from exhaustive. The… Read more ›
Chipset Huawei Kirin 960 is announced, boasts ARM Cortex-A73 cores and Mali-G71 MP8 GPU with CPU 15% more efficient than last generation, and GPU is 180% faster than previous generation Mali-T880. It also supports four component carriers (4CC) for LTE,… Read more ›
Chipset MediaTek announces Helio P15, an upgrade from P10 released in 2015. It is built on TSMC 28nm HPC+ process, with 8×A53 cores. The new chip has a higher clock speed of 2.2GHz and its Mali-T860 GPU also gets clocked… Read more ›
Apologize for a few days of delay for weekly summary: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Battery Fiasco: Samsung is permanently discontinuing production of the Galaxy Note 7 Samsung is reportedly ramping up its Galaxy S7 production, and some of its lower-end… Read more ›
