Hynix is looking to acquire Toshiba’s memory business, says a study from the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET) as reported by the Korea JoongAng Daily newspaper. Hynix is part of the INCJ/Bain consortium bidding for Toshiba, but it has always said it was only looking to provide finance. However it did transpire ...

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DRAM revenue hit a record $16.5 billion in Q2 after increasing 16.9% from Q1, reports TrendForce, with the sharp rise attributable o a declining under-supply allowing customers to replenish inventory. PC and server DRAM ASP rose 10% in the quarter while mobile DRAM ASP rose 4% as China smartphone vendors reduced orders on lower-than-expected shipments.   “The ...

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Micron has doubled the size of its R&D centre in Boise Idaho with a new 100,000 sq ft facility. “That is very meaningful in terms of giving us greater flexibility to research and develop more memory technologies, so we can bring them faster to high-volume production at our building sites and bring those solutions faster ...

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Gartner has come up with its Hype Cycle for the Digital Workplace:   What this boils down to is: 1. Technologies impacting in 2-5 years Augmented data discovery – drawing relevant and useful conclusions from big datasets. Personal analytics – finding relevant data for an individual such as health, financial and shopping data. 2. Technologies ...

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With the achievement of a 250W light source, ASML is now shipping 100 wafer per hour EUV machines and  expects to go to 125wph later this year. Next year, the plan is to go higher. So, after a tortured development period, EUV enters the production process at 7nm. GloFo and TSMC are expected to insert ...

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Applied Materials, 50 years old in November, had a record Q3 with y-o-y sales up 33% at $3.74 billion for a net profit of $925 million. For Q4, Applied expects revenues of $3.85 billion to $4 billion. Applied generated $1.37 billion cash in Q3. Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales constituted $2.5 billion of the total. Of ...

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Five year-old Palo Alto start-up ThoughtSpot has just raised another $60 million taking its total funding to date to $160 million. The company says its technology takes the place of using analysts to investigate markets. The company’s search technology takes company data and produces conclusions from it such as potential customer profiles and projected sales ...

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In her memo to IBM staff explaining her resignation  from the President’s Forum following the Charlottesville disaster, IBM CEO  Ginni Rometty says: “In the past week, we have seen and heard of public events and statements that run counter to our values as a country and a company.” “IBM has long said, and more importantly, ...

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Samsung and Hon Hai/Foxconn are backing Keyssa, the 60GHZ wireless start-up promoting ‘Kiss Connectivity’. Kiss Connectivity delivers 6Gbps wireless data transfer when two devices are near to eachother. Samsung and Hon Hai are interested in the technology for smartphones. Intel has already worked with Keyssa on using the technology for laptops. Keyssa has so far ...

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