Covid-19 Expected to Limit Growth Rates For IC Products in 2020
NAND flash, DRAM, computer CPU, and embedded MPUs show improvement for 2020, but consumers and businesses moving cautiously forward with…
Selective Tungsten Process Fights Resistance
Chipmakers now have a new manufacturing technology for more precise tungsten contact vias, which lead to performance, power, and area…
Gen-Z to Advance Memory-Driven Interconnect Fabric
Advanced software for fabrics boils down to any high-performance APIs and associated software for current and future high-performance computing, cloud,…
NAND Flash Market Weakens Rapidly in 3Q20 with Decline in Wafer Prices
After spot prices have been falling for some time, the NAND Flash market is formally seeing a general decline in…
IoT Growth Demands Rethink of Long-Term Storage Strategies
IDC predicts that by 2025 there will be 55.9B connected devices worldwide, 75% of which will be connected to an…
DDR5 Memory Spec Meets Extreme Speeds
JEDEC published the finalized JESD79-5 DDR5 specification, an industry standard for DRAM. The standard addresses capacity, performance, efficiency, power, and…
Samsung Remains Dominant in the Smartphone Memory Market with 50% Revenue Share in Q1 2020
The global smartphone memory market registered a total chip revenue of $9.4 billion in Q1 2020...
Memory Vendors Move Up the Stack to Optimize Storage
Memory vendors are looking a little higher up the stack to better optimize SSDs and other SCMs...
Semi Fabs to Log Record Spending of Nearly $68 Billion in 2021
2021 is poised to mark a banner year for global fab equipment spending with 24% growth to a record $67.7…
NVMe SSDs Ready to Embrace EDSFF Form Factors
The most mainstream of the three new form factors is the E1.S, which is the obvious replacement for data center…