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Toshiba Starts Construction of Fab 6 and Memory R&D Center at Yokkaichi, Japan
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Published: Feb 09,2017


Winbond's 3x-nm DRAM to Begin Mass Deliveries in Q3 2017
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese memory manufacturer Winbond yesterday at a corporate briefing session announced that Windbond has completed client authentication for 3x nanometer DRAM that they developed themselves, and they expect to begin mass deliveries in the third quarter of this year...

AMOLED Production Equipment Purchases to Reach Record High in 2017
The flat-panel display (FPD) industry is in the midst of a historic wave of building new factories to manufacture active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. This will drive $9.5 billion worth of AMOLED-specific production equipment purchases in 2017, according to IHS Markit...

Imec, Holst Centre and Cartamundi Introduce Plastic NFC Tag Communicating with Smartphones
Today, at the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, imec and Holst Centre and Cartamundi demonstrate a world first thin-film tag on plastic, compatible with the near field communication (NFC) Barcode protocol, a subset of ISO14443-A, which is available as standard in many commercial smartphones...

eMemory Qualified NeoFuse in TSMC 16FFC Process
HSINCHU, Taiwan – Taiwanese NVM IP provider eMemory announces the availability of NeoFuse technology, qualified in TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Compact (16FFC) process. Customers have already embedded the NeoFuse IP for product tape-out...

8.4 Billion Connected "Things" Will Be in Use in 2017
Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Total spending on endpoints and services will reach almost $2 trillion in 2017...

POCT Market to Expand Rapidly at a CAGR of 9.7% From 2015 to 2020, TrendForce Reports
The aging of the world's population has led to steady annual increases in the number of patients suffering chronic diseases. With demand for long-term care of chronic diseases on the rise, the point-of-care testing (POCT) market has also experienced a boom...