A report said that for every CPU it sells to Chinese vendor Xiaomi, Intel will give away a tablet CPU too.
The report, in Taiwanese wire Digitimes, quotes sources in the supply chain for the information.
It’s transparently clear what the chip vendor is doing.… Read the rest
A report said that chip giant Intel will release a new SSD technology in the third quarter of this year which will speed access by seven times.
According to market research company Trendforce, Intel dubs the technology Optane and is a non volatile memory technology.… Read the rest
A South Korean newspaper reported that Samsung’s semiconductor division will manufacture processors for AMD in 2016 using 14 nanometre technology.
AMD’s own semiconductor manufacturing was sold several years ago and is now called GlobalFoundries (GloFo).
GloFo as well as Taiwanese company TSMC currently make CPUs and GPUs for AMD.… Read the rest
Market research company Trendforce predicted that prices of DRAM will keep falling in 2016.
Trendforce believes that the DRAM market is an oligopoly and because of this DRAM manufacturers can stay profitable even though they’re continuing to make too many modules.… Read the rest
The unsolicited proposal by ON Semiconductor to buy the grand daddy of semiconductors, Fairchild, was rejected by the board and the original offer looks set to proceed.
Fairchild received what it described as an unsolicited offer from ON to buy it for $21.70 per share.… Read the rest
US memory maker Micron has bought the rest of Inotera, strengthening its position in the DRAM market.
Micron already owned a third of Inotera and it will pay $3.2 billion to buy a majority share.
The situation is a little complicated, according to Taiwanese wire Digitimes, because Formosa Group, which owns its own memory company Nanya, has 32 percent of the shares of Inotera.… Read the rest
The Chinese state backed company Tsinghua Unigroup wants to buy shares in two Taiwanese chip companies.
The two targets are Siliconware Precision Industry and ChipMOS – it wants to take 25 percent in each of these firms, with the first costing $1.7 billion and the ChipMOS share $347 million, according to Electronics Weekly.… Read the rest
Samsung is joining nearly every IT company out there which is desperate to get into making electronics for intelligent cars.
Samsung has announced it will begin manufacturing electronics parts for the automotive industry, with a specific focus on autonomous vehicles.
The South Korean electronics giant is later than the rest of the industry in getting excited about autonomous vehicles.… Read the rest
The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission (FTC) fined 10 manufacturers making aluminium and tantalum capacitors for fixing prices between themselves.
The FTC doled out fines amounting to $175.5 million after it found the companies had been colluding on pricing.
According to the Taipei Times, the FTC, in collaboration with international antitrust authorities, started the investigation last year and procured evidence showing the firms had broken laws between 2005 and January last year.… Read the rest
The biggest semiconductor foundry in the world looks like it will report revenues of $30 billion next year.
TSMC, with its headquarters in Taiwan, has had a successful year and good write ups for the A9 processor it manufactured for Apple, according to market research company Trendforce.… Read the rest