
Tight NAND Flash Supply to Cause Prices of Mainstream SSDs to Jump by More Than 10% in Q1
DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, reports that client-grade SSDs of mainstream capacities continue to see rising contract prices in the PC-OEM market during this first quarter. On average, contract prices of MLC-based client-grade SSDs are projected to go up by 12~16% compared with the fourth quarter of last year, while prices of TLC-based products are expected to increase by 10~16% sequentially...

Mitsubishi Electric Finishes Construction of Superconducting-magnet Plant
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has completed construction of a superconducting-magnet manufacturing plant at its Transmission and Distribution Systems Center in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The Ako plant will increase the company’s capacity to produce superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, semiconductor-manufacturing equipment and other sophisticated apparatus...

Samsung Electronics Completes Acquisition of HARMAN
Samsung Electronics today announced it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Harman International Industries, Incorporated. Under the terms of the merger agreement, HARMAN stockholders will receive $112.00 per share in cash...

WiseChip Is Showcasing Its Innovative Applications of PMOLED at embedded world 2017
TAIPEI, Taiwan – PMOLED technology is showing its potentiality in various industries. And WiseChip Semiconductor, a Taiwanese OLED solutions provider, who fully displays the unlimited border of applications of the PMOLED technology...

COMPUTEX Issues Last Call for Tech Companies to Submit Innovations for 2017 d&i awards
TAIPEI, Taiwan - COMPUTEX TAIPEI today announced last call for companies to submit their newest ICT products for the tenth annual d&i (design and innovation) awards. The awards are organized by the Taiwan External Trade and Development Council (TAITRA) and Germany’s International Forum Design (iF)...

Commodity-filled Discretes Devices Accounted for 44% of All Semiconductor Unit Shipments in 2016
Annual total semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discrete, or O-S-D, devices) are forecast to continue their upward march in the next five years and are now expected to top one trillion units for the first time in 2018, according to the IC Insights...