111 news items tagged low-power
Micron launches low-power memory qualified for automotive safety applications
Thursday 25 February 2021Micron Technology has begun sampling its automotive low-power DDR5 DRAM (LPDDR5) memory that is hardware-evaluated to meet the most stringent Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL)...
Imagination sells Ensigma Wi-Fi technology to Nordic Semiconductor
Tuesday 1 December 2020Imagination Technologies has announced the sale of its Ensigma Wi-Fi development operations and Wi-Fi IP tech assets to Nordic Semiconductor, which specializes in low-power wireless...
Wafer capacity by feature size shows strongest growth at sub-10nm
Wednesday 18 November 2020IC capacity for leading-edge (sub-10nm) processes is expected to grow and become the largest portion of monthly installed capacity across the industry beginning in 2024, according...
Micron uMCP5 ready for mass production
Wednesday 21 October 2020Micron Technology has announced the launch of uMCP5, which the company claims is the industry's first universal flash storage (UFS) multichip package with low-power DDR5 DRAM.
Dialog licenses non-volatile ReRAM technology to Globalfoundries for 22FDX platform
Tuesday 20 October 2020Dialog Semiconductor and Globalfoundries have entered into an agreement in which Dialog licenses its conductive bridging RAM (CBRAM) technology to Globalfoundries, according to the...
Dialog announces compatibility of octal SPI NOR flash with Renesas MPU
Friday 14 August 2020Dialog Semiconductor has announced that its EcoXiP octal xSPI non-volatile memory (NVM), which was added to Dialog's portfolio through its recent acquisition of Adesto Technologies,...
Imec, GF claim breakthrough in AI chip
Friday 10 July 2020Imec and Globalfoundries (GF) have jointly announced a hardware demonstration of a new artificial intelligence chip. Based on Imec's analog in memory computing (AiMC) architecture...
ITRI transfers memory technologies to Taiwan chipmakers
Monday 6 July 2020Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has been engaged in the development of next-generation non-volatile memory technologies, such as ferroelectric RAM (FRAM)...
GlobalWafers to expand 12-inch silicon wafer capacity in Taiwan
Wednesday 17 June 2020GlobalWafers has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of subsidiary Taisil Electronic Materials, and will use offshore capital to fund the expansion, which is set to complete...
Chiplets promise to help reinstate Moore's Law
Wednesday 29 April 2020Moore's Law may not be dead, but at 55 years old, it's certainly feeling its age, with the pace of semiconductor manufacturing advancement decelerating in recent years. However, a...
TrueLight joins AMS sensor supply chain with low-power VCSEL chips
Monday 20 April 2020Taiwan-based VCSEL maker TrueLight has joined the supply chain of Austria's sensor specialist AMS and is set to ramp up shipments starting in mid second-quarter 2020 to support production...
Micron samples uMCP with LPDDR5
Thursday 12 March 2020Micron Technology has begun sampling what the company claims is the industry's first universal flash storage (UFS) multichip package (uMCP) with low-power DDR5 (LPDDR5) DRAM. The...
Globalfoundries delivers production-ready eMRAM on 22FDX platform for IoT and auto apps
Monday 2 March 2020Globalfoundries announced recently that its embedded magnetoresistive non-volatile memory (eMRAM) on the company's 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) platform has entered production. The foundry...
Micron delivers LPDDR5 for high-performance smartphones
Friday 7 February 2020Micron Technology has announced mass production of what the company claims is the world's first low-power DDR5 DRAM that will be used in the soon-to-be-released Xiaomi Mi 10 smartp...
Intel introduces Tremont microarchitecture
Friday 25 October 2019Intel has revealed the first architectural details related to Tremont. Intel said its newest and most advanced low-power x86 CPU architecture offers a significant performance boost...
Micron moves 1znm DRAM process to volume production
Tuesday 20 August 2019Micron Technology has kicked off mass production of 16Gb DDR4 products using 1z-nanometer process technology, according to the US vendor.
Samsung begins mass production of 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM
Friday 19 July 2019Samsung Electronics has kicked off mass production of 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM memory designed for premium smartphones, according to the company.
Cadence tools certified for Samsung 5LPE process
Wednesday 10 July 2019Cadence Design Systems has announced that its digital full flow has achieved certification for the Samsung Foundry 5nm low-power early (5LPE) process with extreme ultraviolet (EUV)...
NAND flash and LPDDR chipmakers dealing with inventory digestion
Tuesday 25 June 2019NAND flash and low-power DDR chip suppliers continue to digest excess inventory which may indicate a disappointing second half of 2019 facing the memory sector, according to industry...
SST, SK Hynix partner to expand availability of embedded SuperFlash technology
Thursday 20 December 2018Microchip Technology via subsidiary Silicon Storage Technology (SST) has announced a strategic partnership with SK Hynix System IC to expand the availability of SuperFlash technology...
Micron delivers monolithic 12Gb LPDDR4X DRAM for new MediaTek mobile SoC
Friday 14 December 2018Micron Technology has announced that its monolithic 12Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM has been validated for use in MediaTek's new Helio P90 smartphone platform reference...
Focus on stability: Q&A with Globalfoundries executives
Wednesday 21 November 2018Globalfoundries announced in August 2018 its decision to put 7nm FinFET R&D on hold indefinitely in a move to intensify the company's focus on delivering differentiated 14/12nm...
Arm expands DesignStart program for Linux embedded designs
Tuesday 23 October 2018Arm has expanded its DesignStart program to include the Cortex-A5 CPU, Arm's low-power and Linux-capable application processor, according to the processor IP vendor. Developers can...
Innosilicon Bitcoin ASIC built using Samsung low-power FinFET technology
Friday 3 August 2018Innosilicon, which designs and develops cryptocurrency mining ASIC products, has announced its Terminator Sha256 Bitcoin mining ASIC series utilizes Samsung Foundry's advanced low-power...
MediaTek NB-IoT SoC validated by SoftBank
Friday 13 July 2018MediaTek has completed validation (interoperability tests) of NarrowBand IoT connectivity (NB-IoT) with SoftBank to set the stage for future commercial NB-IoT applications within...