A shortage of components will hit premium smartphone sales in H2, says Gartner. “We expect a shortage of flash memory and OLED displays will affect premium smartphone supply in the second half of 2017,” says Gartner’s Anshul Gupta,  “we’ve already seen Huawei’s P10 suffer from a flash memory shortage, and smaller, traditional brands, such as ...

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Q2 shipments of mobile DRAM were up 14.8% on Q1, reports DRAMeXchange. Samsung and Micron had 10%+ growth. Samsung has over 60% of the market folloeed by Hynix with 21% and Micron with 15%. Micron’s outage at its Taiwan fab which lost 50K wafers, mainly for mobile DRAM, will affect its H2 numbers. Returning demand and higher ...

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Today, the government sets out its plans to ensure personal data would continue to move back and forth between the UK and the EU in a safe, properly regulated way. In the latest of a series of papers looking at the UK’s future partnership with the EU after we have left, the Government will consider ...

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Moortec Semiconductor, the Plymouth-based IP  specialists for on-chip monitors and sensors, have brought out an embedded monitoring subsystem for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET (FF) process. Within the subsystem the 7nm Temperature Sensor is a high precision low power junction temperature sensor that has been developed to be embedded into ASIC designs. It can be used for ...

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The July SEMI billings figure was $2.27 billion  – 1.4% down on June’s $2.3 billion and 32.8% higher than the $1.71 billion of July 2016. “We observed softening in the equipment billings in July following the strong surge in the first half of the year,” says SEMI CEO  Ajit Manocha, “however, overall, equipment billings remain ...

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China will deploy 14nm technology next year, says Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics at the Chinese Academy of Science (pictured). However Ye did not say where the process or processes would be installed. China imported chips worth $227 billion last year and exported chips worth $61.4 billion. The deficit is due mainly ...

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Semiconductor capex will rise 20% this year, forecasts IC Insights. Although there was a slight pause in the upward trajectory in 1Q17, 2Q17 set a new record for quarterly spending outlays. Moreover, 1H17 semiconductor industry spending was 48% greater than in 1H16. IC Insights believes that whether industry-wide capital spending in the second half of ...

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