Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Semiconductor Engineering -- Market overcrowding, more efficient manufacturing, and growing list of scaling issues create a challenging competitive landscape.

Media -- Evertiq - Analog semiconductors provider, Skyworks Solutions, has closed its acquisition of Avnera Corporation, a developer of Analog System...

DigiTimes -- GlobalWafers has seen customers pay in advance to secure enough silicon wafers beyond 2021, while fellow company Wafer Works has landed orders...

DigiTimes -- Mobile DRAM revenues amounted to about US$8.87 billion in the second quarter, up 5.1% sequentially and hitting a record high, according to DRAMeXchange.

DigiTimes -- Along with the development of data centers, automotive electronics and industrial automation, power consumption has become an issue as crucial...

Business Wire -- Toshiba's next-generation superjunction power MOSFETs increase power supply efficiency even further for power supplies in industrial applications.

PR Newswire -- HOT CHIPS 2018 - At the 2018 Hot Chips conference this week, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, will...

WebWire - Semiconductors -- The STMicroelectronics plug-and-play wireless battery-charger development kit ( STEVAL-ISB045V1 ) lets users quickly...

Seeking Alpha --

Media -- Evertiq - Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), has officially broken ground on its new global headquarters in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The expanded...

Media -- Evertiq - Supplier of high-performance power and sensor semiconductor ICs, Allegro MicroSystems, announces that the company has established a...

DigiTimes -- The DRAM market is expected to be the largest of all IC product categories in 2018, repeating the ranking it held last year, according to IC...

DigiTimes -- DRAM suppliers have begun to negotiate with their clients contract prices for the fourth quarter since the middle of August, according to DRAMeXchange,...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them.

Life -- EurekAlert - At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), physicist Professor Thomas Schimmel and his team have developed a single-atom transistor,...

DigiTimes -- Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$117.9 billion during the second quarter of 2018, up 6% sequentially and 20.5% on year, according...

DigiTimes -- The global NAND flash market remained in oversupply in the second quarter of 2018, though the market posted a 3.5% sequential increase in revenues,...

DigiTimes -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its design services partners have recently seen orders for cryptocurrency mining chips...

DigiTimes -- On the heels of a 37.3% growth in wafer front end (WFE) semiconductor equipment growth in 2017, the market will grow only 10% in 2018 to US$62.3...

DigiTimes -- The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved capital appropriations of approximately US$4.49 billion for new fabs...

DigiTimes -- The demise of Qualcomm's pending US$44 billion purchase of NXP Semiconductors in late July along with growing regulatory reviews of chip merger...

DigiTimes -- As most of the 12-inch wafer foundry fabs built in China in 2016-2017 will kick off commercial run in late 2018, China's combined monthly foundry...

DigiTimes -- The global DRAM memory industry's output value grew 11.3% sequentially to record-high US$25.69 billion in the second quarter of 2018, according...

DigiTimes -- NAND flash device controller IC supplier Phison Electronics has reported net profits of NT$1.24 billion (US$40 million) for the second quarter...

DigiTimes -- Qualcomm is set to build an operational and manufacturing engineering center in Taiwan by the end of 2019, according to a local report, citing...

DigiTimes -- Pure-play foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$74.37 billion (US$2.41 million)...

DigiTimes -- MediaTek has reported consolidated revenues slipped about 3% sequentially to NT$20.42 billion (US$662.6 million) in July.

U.S. News -- Cree: Fiscal 4Q Earnings Snapshot.

U.S. News -- U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp on Tuesday disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited...

Business Wire -- Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today...

Business Wire -- Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within...

Business Wire -- Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced...

Business Wire -- Using Intel(r) Xeon(r) Scalable processors and the OpenVINO(tm) toolkit, Intel and Philips* tested two healthcare use cases for deep...

BGR -- Arm wants to get inside your laptop. For the first time, the company has published its product roadmap that covers the next two years and showcases...

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce Corp., reports that the global NAND Flash market has stayed in oversupply since the...

Electronics -- Intel - A NASA Frontier Development Lab photo shows a crater on the moon.

Electronics -- Intel - One of the most basic - and challenging - building blocks of an autonomous vehicle system is the ability to detect and classify objects....

Electronics -- Infineon - Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) has enabled a new open source software stack....

Tech -- Digital Trends - A benchmark for Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 850 processor show a less-than-stellar increase in multi-core performance over the...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Arm publicly revealed its CPU road map for the first time, covering designs to be released through 2020. Typically disclosed...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Intel has confirmed plans to launch a dedicated graphics card in 2020. Although precious few details exist for the card at this...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - How does the world's number one country in semiconductor technology stay on top in a market where competitors are quick to imitate...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Arm, the company that designs the chips that power virtually every smartphone and IoT device, published its roadmap for the next...

Globe Newswire -- NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 29, 2018, of $3.12 billion, up 40 percent from $2.23 billion a...

BGR -- Come October 1st, Intel will unveil its 9th generation of chips, a new report reveals. The new processors will feature faster speeds and even...

Globe Newswire -- Technology - Update on neuASIC modular AI ASIC platform Update on neuASIC modular AI ASIC platform

Electronics -- TI - Behind the Wheel - Have you ever opened your car door, only to hit the door of the car next to you, or a pole you didn't see? Or have you...

Tech -- Digital Trends - Apple could be looking at making its own dedicated health tracking processors. These chips are dedicated to health-monitoring...

Business Wire -- Seoul Semiconductor's SunLike Series natural spectrum LEDs were recognized in the 2018 Illumination Engineering Society (IES) Progress...

Electronics Distribution News -- It's fair to say Steve Sanghi, CEO of Microchip Technology was not impressed once he and his colleagues got access to all the information on...