China is discussing a $1.8 billion investment in Japan Display, the cash-strapped, bailed-out, consortium of Japanese panel makers, reports Kyodo News. Three China companies are making the investment:BOE Technology Group Co,  Tianma Microelectronics and Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology. Japan Display, formedfrom the failing panel operations of Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba, has been loss-making for ...

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Amid reports that the China anti-trust regulator is looking askance at the presence of Hynix in the winning bid for Toshiba’s memory unit, comes a report from the Yonhap News Agency that Hynix is talking to Tsinghua Unigroup about licensing flash technology. Tsinghua is outfitting a massive memory fab at its Yangtze River Memory Storage ...

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The semiconductor market in 2017 will finish with annual growth of about 20%, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, making 2017 the highest annual change since 32% in 2010. Memory, specifically DRAM and NAND flash, is the major market driver. WSTS projects the memory market will grow 60% in 2017, while the semiconductor market excluding memory will ...

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Samsung says it has begun mass producing 2nd-generation 10nm nanometer 8Gb DDR4 DRAM. The 2nd-generation delivers a 30% ‘productivity gain’ over the company’s 1st-generation 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4, says Samsung. Performance and power have been improved about 10% and 15%. respectively. The new 8Gb DDR4 can operate at 3,600Mbps per pin, compared to 3,200 Mbps of the ...

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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has sent a memo to employees urging them to take more risks and harking back to the examples of its three great founders, Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. Here is the text: Intel employees, As 2017 comes to a close, I want to reflect on this year and the ...

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At 10:30am this morning, the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee will start questioning  Matt Hancock MP, Minister of State for Digital, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (pictured) on  Brexit’s implications for data flows across Europe. The House of Lords is following up a report last year with a view to examining ...

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Melexis has brought out a pressure sensor for harsh media applications, especially in the automotive sector. The MLX90818 is a packaged absolute pressure sensor that is factory-calibrated to cover the range 1.0 to 5.5 bar, making it suitable for normally aspirated, direct injection and turbocharged engine applications. The highly integrated sensor includes provision for an ...

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Renesas  and Airbiquity have come up with  a secure, connected car product  automotive solution with over-the-air (OTA) capabilities, targeting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and automated driving applications of the future. To prepare for the upcoming autonomous-driving era, the two leading companies are integrating Airbiquity’s OTAmatic cloud-based OTA software and data management service ...

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