2019-07-23 - Gary Hilson

Samsung Targets 5G-Capable Smartphones with LPDDR5

Samsung's LPDDR5 chip anticipates 5G, AI impact on premium smartphones.

2019-06-28 - Dylan McGrath

Micron Resumes Some Shipments to Huawei

U.S. memory chip supplier Micron Technology said it would reduce its capital spending plans for fiscal 2019 and 2020 and…

2019-06-24 - Rick Merritt

PCI Express Builds Towards 64G Leap

PCI Express will leverage today's 56G PAM4 interconnects to deliver a 64G spec in 2021 in a speed race already…

2019-06-21 - Dylan McGrath

Chip Market Share Dominated by U.S. Firms

U.S.-based chip firms held more than 50% of the global IC market share in 2018, by far the most of…

2019-06-05 - Sanjay Charagulla

HBM2e Top Contender for AI Applications

HBM2e and GDDR6 DRAMs are vying for AI applications. However, HBM2e has a competitive edge. But you be the judge

2019-04-12 - Dylan McGrath

AI Inferencing Chip Targets Edge Applications

Flex Logix - best known as a supplier of embedded FPGAs and other IP - is marketing its first chip,…

2019-04-09 - Rick Merritt

AI Research Targets Nvidia V100

UT Austin says a chip it has developed can, in simulations, beat the V100 on training neural nets. The claim…

2019-03-28 - Junko Yoshida

SMIC Rift: Who’s in Charge of China’s Chip Industry?

A write up of what we have learned about SMIC Co-CEO Haijun Zhao, because Zhao's rumored resignation has opened the…

2019-03-28 - Alan Patterson

Tsinghua Poaches Talent to Aid China’s Faltering DRAM Industry

China’s Tsinghua Unigroup, may snatch a co-CEO from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) to revive a plan to build a…

2019-03-15 - Martin Rowe

University Adds NVMe over TCP Testing

The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has expanded its Non-Volatile-Memory-Express-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF) testing capabilities to include NVMe over TCP.