Spin Transfer Technologies, (STT) and Tokyo Electron (TEL) are to collaborate on developing manufacturing processes for ST-MRAM. The combination of STT’s ST-MRAM technology and TEL’s PVD MRAM deposition tool will allow the companies to develop processes for ST-MRAM. STT is contributing its perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) design and device fabrication technology, and TEL is ...

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A report on AI, commissioned the Culture Secretary as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy, has been published. It concludes that AI can generate £630 billion in value for the UK economy by 2035. Recommendations include: Skills: increasing the UK’s expert AI expertise through new initiatives including an industry-funded Masters programme in AI, and conversion ...

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Q4 will see a price hike for mobile DRAM of between 10-15% which will take the mobile DRAM prices above the PC DRAM price for the first time this year, reports DRAMeXchange. The price will stay high next year as manufacturers put greater focus on server DRAM nect year at the expense of mobile DRAM. ...

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Alibaba is choosing chip suppliers for its Alibaba Cloud unit. ST has been chosen to supply building blocks for connecting IoT nodes and has made its ARM Cortex-M MCU portfolio compatible with Amaxon Cloud’s AliOS operating system. Beyond processing, designers will get access to ST’s complete portfolio covering all the key building blocks for the ...

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The number of 300mm wafer production-class fabs in operation worldwide is expected to increase each year between now and 2021 to reach 123 compared to 98 in 2016, according to the IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2017-2021 report. As shown in Figure 1, 300mm wafers represented 63.6% of worldwide IC fab capacity at the end ...

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Imec and ADI have entered a broad research agreement on sensor technology with two immediate projects already underway. One of these is, says Imec’s Kathleen Philips “the development of a low-power sensor for highly accurate indoor localization in the context of smart building or smart industry solutions. Concretely, we want this sensor to localize objects with ...

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The chip market will be worth $411 billion this year says Gartner, representing an increase of 19.7% from 2016. This will be the strongest growth since the 2010 recovery from the financial crisis when revenue increased by 31.8%. “Memory continues to lead the semiconductor market higher and is expected to increase 57 percent in 2017 as ...

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Globalfoundries has put together a package of process and packaging technologies for the sutomotive market called called AutoPro, AutoPro technologies include SiGe, FD-SOI, CMOS and FinFET nodes, ASIC design services, packaging and IP. GF’s CMOS and RF solutions target sensors (radar, lidar, cameras), ADAS and autonomous processing (sensor fusion and AI compute) and body and ...

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