According to the Market Research Institute IHS Markit research, the global semiconductor market revenue reached 429 billion 100 million US dollars in 2017, which grew by 21.7% compared with 2016, and the annual growth rate has reached a new high of nearly 14 years. Samsung also replaced 53.6% years of Intel (Intel) with 25 growth rate as the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer in 2017.

Recently, the Alibaba Dharma institute told Frontline that Alibaba Dharma is developing a neural network chip, Ali-NPU, which will be used in AI reasoning calculations such as image video analysis and machine learning. According to the design, the chip's price/performance ratio will be 40 times that of current products. The research and development of this chip will better realize the application of AI intelligence in business scenarios, improve computing efficiency and reduce costs.

According to foreign media reports, according to foreign media reports, semiconductor wafer manufacturers worldwide wafers and South Korean local governments reached a cooperative factory expansion agreement, initially agreed to invest 480 billion won or the equivalent of 449 million US dollars, including 200 million US dollars of foreign direct The investment will be used to expand the production capacity of 12-inch silicon wafers and is expected to be completed by 2020. In response to this, Global Wafer Clarification stated that the possibility of expanding factories around the country is currently under investigation.

ZTE Corporation (ZTE, 0763.HK, 000063.SZ) was banned by the United States for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced on April 16th that the next 7 years (until 2025) On the 13th of this month, U.S. companies will not sell components to ZTE. However, the U.S. ban on ZTE’s trepidation threatens its own chip maker Qualcomm to suffer?

The supply of passive components is tight and prices have increased several times. It has also been reported that the supply chain may be in crisis due to shortage of materials. Confronted with a series of component pric...

University of Basel professor Dominik Zumb HL and his colleagues successfully nano electronic chip cooling temperature to 2.8 milli Kelvin, which is about 273.15 degrees below zero centigrade. The researchers say: "magnetic cooling is based on the principle that when the external magnetic field gradually decreases, the system will gradually cool down, while avoiding any external heat flow.

MediaTek former senior engineer surnamed Wei, wants to move on to the wireless communication chip giant Qualcomm Corp, actually download dual camera technology, chip design program files from MediaTek, Qualcomm received a briefing material as the interview, admission notice handed out leave application, was told that MediaTek audit. The local court of Taipei ruled that Wei was in detention for 50 days in violation of the "business secret law". It could be fined for a period of 2 years, but it had to pay 400 thousand yuan for the national treasury.

Changjiang Storage was formally established on July 26, 2016 based on Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The companys major shareholders include major funds and Ziguang Group, Hubei Branch Investment and...

IC design Leading MediaTek Helio P60 chip shipments were better than expected. The March performance was ahead of schedule. The chip entered the peak period of shipments in the second quarter. The number of customer orde...

April 2, 2018, China - STMicroelectronics X-Cube-AVS software package enables Amazons Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to run on STM32* microcontrollers, enabling cloud intelligence (automatic speech recognition and Advanced co...