Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

Electronics -- NVIDIA Newsroom - CNBC

Media -- SemiMedia - According to the latest report from TrendForce, due to the poor overall demand outlook for DRAM this year and the substantial price increases in previous months, TrendForce expects the DRAM contract price increase...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan-based ASIC designers are quietly seeking business opportunities arising from China's prohibition on the public sector's use of US chips, according to industry sources.

Business Wire -- GCT Semiconductor, Inc. ("GCT Semiconductor" or "GCT"), a leading fabless designer and supplier of advanced LTE, IoT and 5G semiconductor solutions, is pleased to announce the completion of its business combination, previously announced on November...

Electronics -- Today, Wolfspeed, Inc. (NYSE: WOLF), the global leader in silicon carbide technology, hosted Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and other local officials, community partners, and employees at a ceremony to celebrate the topping out of construction at the $5 billion...

Media -- WebWire - STMicroelectronics has introduced 100V trench Schottky rectifier diodes that boost efficiency in power converters operated at high switching frequencies. - - Raising power-converter operating frequency,...

Media -- Evertiq - TrendForce says that despite DRAM suppliers' efforts to trim inventories, they have yet to reach healthy ranges. As they continue to improve their loss situations by boosting capacity utilisation rates, the overall demand outlook for this year...

Media -- According to reports, SK Hynix will start building semiconductor fabs in the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea in March 2025. Starting from this, more than 120 trillion won (approximately...

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced its Lattice Automate(tm) solution stack has been named a 2024 BIG AI Excellence Award winner for enabling accelerated development of smart Industrial...

Business Wire -- Toshiba's new 32-bit Arm(r) Cortex(r)-M4 microcontorollers for motor control boost code flash memory to 512KB/1MB.

EFYTIMES.COM -- DDR5, the fifth-gen DRAM, demands digital-analogue finesse in its MC and DDR PHY. Unique timings, coupled with emerging tech like 3D XPoint, MRAM, and ReRAM, mark a paradigm shift Memory is typically used for storing the data or program code needed by...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Popular chipmaker Qualcomm announced two new audio platforms that bring major enhancements to a bunch of Bluetooth audio products. Here's what you should know.

Electronics -- Infineon - Decarbonization and digitalization are the two central challenges of our time, but they rely on new and advanced technologies. At embedded world 2024 in Nuremberg, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX:...

Electronics -- The Ojo-Yoshida Report - The tech industry's self-congratulatory analogy of AI with electricity "is not absurd, but it's too flawed to be useful," says historian Peter Norton.

Media -- Evertiq - Costa Rica has received a delegation from Washington to sell itself as a viable destination for the US semiconductor supply chain.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Su was accompanied by AMD executives on her trip to Beijing.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A key factor in building a domestic workforce for the chip industry is attracting kids to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects at a younger age. That way they are more likely to follow through and attain...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The US government is set to disclose the scale of its semiconductor subsidy for Samsung Electronics on March 28, 2024.

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced the latest release of its award-winning Lattice Radiant(r) design software, featuring expanded functional safety and reliability capabilities....

Tech -- ExtremeTech - It could be a render, but this is the first time we've seen an actual Arrow Lake die.

Media -- Evertiq - The US government has proclaimed the rise in chip manufacturing employment after the slump of the 2010s - and says manufacturers are now adding about 6,000 jobs a year.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - To streamline and facilitate a back-end manufacturing ecosystem for PICs, OpenLight, the world leader in custom PASIC chip design and manufacturing, today announced a...

Media -- Evertiq - The US Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) has handed IBM an up-to-10 year USD 576 million contract to consult on the purchase of chips for the military.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Samsung Electronics announced at its shareholders' meeting that it is investing in the development of an AI accelerator, MACH-1, aiming to challenge Nvidia, and further revolutionize the previously unsuccessful High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)...

Globe Newswire -- Technology - The Qi(r) v2.0 compliant dual-pad reference design provides automotive charger manufacturers with a greater level of flexibility and programmability.

Media -- Source Today - Exploring the power of artificial intelligence in semiconductor manufacturing.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Memory industry upgrades are being propelled by the soaring demand for generative AI, and chip vendors are preparing for this, according to market observers in China.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan's President Elect Lai Ching-te promises to build a stronger and more prosperous semiconductor industry, with a bigger economic effect in Taiwan after taking office on May 20.

Business Wire -- Diodes Incorporated (Diodes) (Nasdaq: DIOD) introduces three new Hall-effect switches, the AH1899A/B/S, which operate from a low supply voltage and at extremely low quiescent current to extend battery lifetime in mobile and portable devices. The AH1899A/B/S...

Aspencore -- EETimes - With the Global Semiconductor Alliance, better known as the GSA, bringing its international semiconductor conference to London for the first time last week, EE Times took the opportunity to chat with the

Media -- Evertiq - The South Korean memory giant has started volume production of HBM3E1, the latest AI memory product with ultra-high performance, for supply to a customer from late March.

Media -- Evertiq - Infineon Technologies plans to significantly expand its R&D presence in Ireland within the next four years - adding over 100 new jobs at its sites in Cork and Dublin.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - As process nodes shrink, so does the selection of chips developed at those nodes. Consumers demand more features and functionality, but that carries a high price tag in terms of both complexity and real dollars. In addition,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - NAND flash prices have risen since the second half of 2023 and are expected to reach new highs in the second quarter this year, according to industry sources.

Media -- DIGITIMES - SK Hynix recently began the liquidation of its Shanghai sales office, which was established in 2006. It is shifting its core business operations in China to the Wuxi site, where it has a memory factory. The reason behind the restructuring...

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced it has been recognized as a 2024 Top Workplace USA. Lattice won the award based on direct employee survey feedback including 15 culture...

Business Wire -- U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed up to $8.5 billion in direct funding through CHIPS and Science Act to advance Intel's semiconductor projects.

Enterprise -- Microsoft Azure - At NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA are announcing new offerings across a breadth of solution areas from leading AI infrastructure to new platform integrations, and industry breakthroughs. Today's news expands our long-standing collaboration,...

Electronics -- The Ojo-Yoshida Report - Despite its advantages, the power semiconductor technology continues to be plagued by false starts.

Media -- eBOM - At embedded world 2024, Analog Devices will be demonstrating how the company is advancing the performance, speed of creation, and environmental impact of embedded system design. Visitors to the booth will be able to explore 16 feature-rich demos,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently expressed his hope to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

Media -- DIGITIMES - DIGITIMES Research believes that the neural processing unit (NPU) will bring new choices for AI accelerator chips in edge devices. Compared to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), NPU has power consumption and price/performance...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Samsung Electronics significantly expanded its DRAM market share in the fourth quarter of 2023, extending its lead over SK Hynix to 14 percentage points from a quarter earlier. While SK Hynix currently takes the lead in High-Bandwidth Memory...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Global top-3 memory makers are expected to see rising revenues from the memory business in the first quarter of 2024 with HBM products to be the key growth drivers.

Media -- CNBC - Tech - Johnson & Johnson MedTech and Nvidia are developing new artificial intelligence applications for surgery.

Media -- CNBC - Tech - Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.

Electronics -- NVIDIA Newsroom - AI - already used to connect, analyze and offer predictions based on operating room data - will be critical to the future of surgery, boosting operating room efficiency and clinical decision-making. That's why NVIDIA is working with...

Electronics -- NVIDIA Newsroom - Generative AI promises to revolutionize every industry it touches - all that's been needed is the technology to meet the challenge. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced that technology-the company's new Blackwell computing platform-as...

Globe Newswire -- Semiconductors - NXP collaborated with NVIDIA to enable NVIDIA's AI models to be deployed on NXP's edge processing devices with NXP's eIQ ML development enviornment.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Just as Qualcomm is poised to unveil an updated Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, leaked benchmark scores for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, a 3nm flagship SoC slated for the second half of 2024, have emerged, surpassing even Apple's forthcoming SoC. This signals...