Recent concerns over market conditions, coupled with a sharp downturn in average selling prices, will lead the DRAM market to reach just $77 billion in 2019 – a 22 percent year-over-year decline.
MACOM Announces Stephen G. Daly as President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Daly succeeds John Croteau, who resigned on May 15, 2019.
After Three Consecutive Years of Growth, IDC Forecasts Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Decline by 7.2% in 2019
After three consecutive years of growth, with year-over-year growth of 13.2% in 2018, the latest update to the Semiconductor Applications Forecaster (SAF) from International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that worldwide semiconductor revenue will decline to $440 billion in 2019, down 7.2% from $474 billion in 2018.
AKHAN Semiconductor Appoints H. Delano Roosevelt to Board of Directors; Robert Mohr Named CFO
AKHAN Semiconductor, a technology company specializing in the fabrication and application of lab-grown, electronic-grade diamonds, announced that it has appointed H. Delano Roosevelt to its Board of Directors.
Toshiba Memory and Western Digital to Jointly Invest in Flash Manufacturing Facility in Kitakami, Japan
Toshiba Memory Corporation and Western Digital Corp. have finalized a formal agreement to jointly invest in the “K1” manufacturing facility that Toshiba Memory is currently constructing in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
MACOM Announces John F. Kober as Senior Vice President and CFO
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings today announced the appointment of John F. Kober as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
CEA-Leti and Silvaco Team Up on Yield-Prediction Project For Ultra-Low-Power Static Memories
Leti, a research institute of CEA-Tech, and Silvaco Inc. today announced, during the 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Las Vegas, a project to estimate and model the yield of ultra-low-voltage (ULV), ultra-low-leakage (ULL) static random access memory (SRAM) used in computing applications.
Global Semiconductor Alliance Launches Initiative to Bolster Women’s Leadership
The Global Semiconductor Alliance unveiled its Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI), seeking to significantly increase the number of women entering the semiconductor market, as well as elevating their participation as founders, leaders and board members.
CyberOptics to Launch New AVLS3 with CyberSpectrum Software and New NanoResolution MRS Sensor at SEMICON West
CyberOptics will exhibit at SEMICON West, July 9-11, 2019 in booth #5769 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
Big Energy Savings For Tiny Machines
Inside all of us are trillions of tiny molecular nanomachines that perform a variety of tasks necessary to keep us alive. A team led by SFU physics professor David Sivak demonstrated for the first time a strategy for manipulating these machines to maximize efficiency and conserve energy.
