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Friday 29 September 2017
More supply chain makers vying for growing smart speaker market
More supply chains for AI-based voice assistant devices and smart speakers have begun to emerge as nearly all heavyweight tech companies including Google, Apple, Samsung Electronics,...
Friday 29 September 2017
Power transistor growth returns after volatile period, says IC Insights
Since the 2009 semiconductor downturn and strong 2010 recovery year, power transistor sales have been rocked by market volatility, falling in three of the last five years because...
Friday 29 September 2017
SMIC, Sanechips announce NB-IoT solution
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Sanechips Technology (formerly ZTE Microelectronics Technology) have announced the launch of RoseFinch7100, which the companies...
Thursday 28 September 2017
Innolux top TV panel vendor in August, says firm
Innolux outperformed LG Display to become the world's top vendor of LCD TV applications in August, during which the Taiwan-based maker's TV panel shipments reached 3.9 million units,...
Thursday 28 September 2017
Backend firm Lingsen enjoys strong orders for MEMS microphones
Taiwan-based backend service company Lingsen Precision Industries has enjoyed brisk orders for MEMS microphones for use in smart speakers and voice assistants, according to industry...
Thursday 28 September 2017
MediaTek smartphone chipset MT6739 debuts in India
MediaTek has introduced its MT6739chipset at India Mobile Congress 2017, the first mobile conference of its kind in the region. The quad-core system on chip (SoC) is built for India's...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Moore's Law has come to its end, says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has said that with the emergence of GPU computing following the decline of the CPU era, Moore's Law has come to an end, stressing that his company's...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
AMD to launch 12nm Ryzen in February 2018, says mobo makers
AMD has informed its partners that it plans to launch in February 2018 an upgrade version of its Ryzen series processors built using a 12nm low-power (12LP) process at Globalfoundries,...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Digitimes Research: FPGAs getting a foothold in deep learning inference chip market
While Nvidia is currently a leading player in the deep learning inference chip market, powered by its GPGPU (general-purpose computing on graphics processing unit) processors, other...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
GIS expects shipment momentum to continue into 4Q17
Touch panel solution provider General Interface Solution (GIS) expects its shipment momentum to continue into November, which will enable the company to post month-over-month revenue...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
MediaTek likely to meet high end of 3Q17 guidance
MediaTek is expected to meet the high-end of its sales guidance for the third quarter of 2017, driven by better-than-expected sales of its recently introduced Helio P23 and P30 chips,...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
MEMS sensor demand for smartphones, automotive surging
MEMS sensor demand for smartphones and automotive applications has been surging, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC backend houses, which have enjoyed a ramp-up of orders placed...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Aemulus rolls out 5G test solutions
Malaysia-based automated test equipment (ATE) company Aemulus has announced the availability of its new test solutions for 5G wireless.
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Samsung ready to mass produce MRAM chips using 28nm FD-SOI process
Samsung Foundry will soon be ready to enter mass production of magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) chips built using 28nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
SMIC to build new plant in Ningbo
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) plans to set up a new plant in Ningbo, China where the pure-play foundry will install its specialty process technology R&D and...