Sales of server DRAM chips among top three vendors rose by 30 percent sequentially in second quarter, according to a market watcher.
IBM claims records in efficiency and accuracy for its distributed deep-learning (DDL) algorithms compared with the respective results of previous record holders Facebook and Microsoft.
The Flash Memory Summit saw NAND chips move toward four bits/cell as new options for solid-state drives and software emerged for data centers.
At the keynote address of the 2017 IEEE EMC/SI/PI Symposium, the FCC's Julius Knapp explained the agency's role in regulating IoT devices.
Gogoro makes electric scooters with the far-reaching aim of rethinking how cities distribute, manage and experience energy. We talked to the top management of the company, in Taiwan, who are mainly fr
The Gen-Z Consortium has first prototypes for its interconnect, pointing toward a disruptive future of many persistent memories.
Our eighth cartoon caption contest for 2017 is chock-full of interesting possibilities. "Your caption here!"Our challenge to you i ...
A quick exploration of the Kickstarter crowdsourcing platform uncovers ideas that range from sublime to ridiculous-and demonstrates that people are lining up to take some of them from the drawing boar
The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate charges by Qualcomm that Apple iPhone and iPads violates six of its non-standards-essential patents.
Kevin Krewell shares a few cool pix of classic microcomputers he snapped while at the recent Vintage Computer Festival West.
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A free online service gives a taste of a novel scanner that checks binary versions of open source code for security flaws.
Samsung is sampling Z-NAND drives with 15-microsecond latency and announced plans for 3D-NAND chips that would enable Tbit devices.
The flash market is ready to standardize on 1.2V and extended 1.5V as the next power node below 1.8V, giving system designers the confidence to plan their development roadmaps around 1.2V as the suppl
Everspin will debut a Gbit MRAM chip and 1-2 Gbyte cards, expanding the non-volatile alternatives to NAND at the annual Flash Memory Summit.
Researchers from Arizona State and Tsinghua Universities achieved a room-temperature CMOS laser using a molybdenum ditelluride monolayer over a silicon cavity.
Record second quarter sales of more than $97 billion put industry on trajectory for huge year.
Record second quarter sales of more than $97 billion put industry on trajectory for huge year.
French researchers have accumulated key imaging technologies, ranging from X-ray and far infrared to visible image sensors, 3D imaging, and software - all concentrated in Grenoble area. Here are key m
Spat between feuding partners takes new turn as Toshiba says it will go it alone to fund equipment purchases for Fab 6 at its Yokkaichi Operations manufacturing site.
In a boost for Big Data, IBM Research has set a tape areal-density record of 201 gigabytes/square inch on nano-grained sputtered tape from Sony Storage Media Solutions.
Are AI technologies fully deployed in U.S. factories yet? The short answer is no. The long answer, like the subject, is complicated.
Market watchers keep revising semiconductor sales forecasts upward as the market boom continues to unfold.
With several next generation flagship smartphones due out -- including iPhone 8 -- analysts expect smartphone sales to pick up in the second half of the year.
5G millimeter wave services need channel allocation decisions from regulators before engineers can finish designs.
Market research firm Gartner lifted its forecast for semiconductor capital spending, projecting an increase of more than 10 percent this year.
Startup zGlue designed a low cost 2.5-D substrate for integrating more than a dozen chips, providing an alternative to SoCs for the Internet of Things.
Apple's revenue continued to grow year-over-year despite difficulties in China.
Texas Instruments, inventor of the MOEMS-based Digital Light Processor (DLP), has produced a $20 digital micromirror device (DMD) to bring pico projectors to the mass market.
Apple's revenue continued to grow year-over-year despite difficulties in China.
Intel reportedly cancelled plans to take the x86 into microcontrollers with the Quark processor and modules, amnid a sluggish wearables market.
MediaTek, the second-ranked smartphone chip supplier after Qualcomm, said that its market share has continued a slide that started earlier this year due to a slowdown in product upgrades.
Toshiba will give its partner at least two weeks notice of the planned sales of assets involved in the companies' joint venture after a court ruling.
Propagating spin waves could pave the way for high speed, miniaturized data processing devices that have huge potential as fast, high capacity and energy efficient memory devices
Sometimes spurious proposals have been clogging channels at the 3GPP standards group as it expands cellular and accelerates 5G.
STMicroelectronics is sprinting toward the winner's circle in MCUs, NFC and sensors, while NXP is hobbled by its pending acquisition by Qualcomm. ST, claiming No. 3 share in volume MCU market, disclos
The new standard will push Bluetooth away from its consumer application roots to more commercial and industrial applications that demand ROI
Synaptics' CEO called for standards amid a rapidly emerging market for voice services and talked about his deals to buy Conexant and a Marvell unit.
Hassane El-Khoury is more proud of growing Cypress's pro forma net income by more than 60 percent than he is of the company's second consecutive quarter of record sales.
A multisource agreement will lead to a speed doubling of the small form-factor (SFP) pluggable module used in many datacenters.
Fab tool billings grew again in June on both a sequential and year-over-year basis as the industry continues to enjoy what is projected to be its best year ever.
The booming memory chip market propelled South Korean conglomerate past Intel in semiconductor sales in the second quarter, as some analysts had predicted.
Intel reported revenue and profit growth and raised its annual forecast, in part on the strong of PC sales.
United Microelectronics Corp., Taiwan's second largest foundry, has started its first production of 14nm products, narrowing a technology gap with its larger competitors such as TSMC and Samsung.
The University of Maryland's NanoCenter demonstrated an
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Foxconn's chairman pledged to spend $10 billion to make 8K LCD displays in Kenosha, Wisconsin in a deal brokered by the Trump Administration.
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Chip firm reports second consecutive quarter of double digit year-over-year sales increases.
Shipments of company's time of flight sensors, rumored to be included in iPhone 8, have surpassed 300 million and ST is increasing capex for the remainder of the year.