Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled $419.7 billion in 2017, a 22.2 percent increase from 2016, according to preliminary results by Gartner, …
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Qualcomm announces job cuts
“Qualcomm is conducting a reduction of our full-time and temporary workforce,” a company spokesperson who declined to be identifies said, without disclosing the exact numbers of job cuts. 0 3055
Samsung to invest $18 billion in memory chip business
Samsung Electronics has announced that it plans to invest at least $18.63 billion in South Korea as it seeks to extend its lead in memory chips and next-generation displays for smartphones.
China invests $22 billion to domestic chip industry
China is pouring more money into chasing its semiconductor ambitions. The state-backed Tsinghua Unigroup, which has been building up the country’s chip-industry infrastructure, received a $22 billion in financing.
MediaTek to improve low-cost Android smartphone performance
Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost, Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572. MT6572 …
Intel invests $2.1 billion in tools maker ASML to enable smaller chip circuits
Intel will take a stake in semiconductor tools company ASML and invest in its research and development efforts, to advance …
Intel grabs record share of growing chip market
As global semiconductor revenue hit $306.8 billion in 2011, Intel grabbed its biggest bite of the chip market to date. …
Intel plans ‘superchip’ for high-performance computing
Intel this week said it was investing in the development of a “superchip” for high-performance computing systems that the company …
Intel reports strong Q4 revenue
Intel reported strong revenue and profit growth in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, overcoming a sharp drop in revenue …
AMD hires former HP executive as CIO
AMD yesterday continued shuffling its senior executive ranks, appointing former Hewlett-Packard executive Mike Wolfe as its chief information officer. Wolfe …
Researchers create computer that fits on a pen tip
Researchers at the University of Michigan today announced they have created the first prototype for a millimeter-scale computing system that …