Post Event Coverage: Day 1 Snapdragon Tech Summit :: Qualcomm Accelerates Its 5G Efforts with New Mobile Platforms
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019 kicked off on 3rd December in Maui. Qualcomm has billed it as the largest launch event of the year for the…
AMD Q3 2019: Highest Quarterly Revenue in a Decade Driven by Ryzen Shipments
AMD reached its highest quarterly revenue in a decade, at US$ 1.8 Billion. AMD’s recently launched EPYC (2nd Gen) processor managed to capture…
Expected Memory Market Rebound in 2020 and Continuous Investment Can Strengthen Samsung’s Leading Position in Memory
Samsung Electronics announced that it achieved memory revenue of 13.26 trillion won (USD 11.48 billion) in Q3 2019, up 7.8% sequentially, but down…
Microchip, Intel and Nvidia Dominated the US$ 5 Billion Server Accelerator Market in 2018
Overview: Cloud Services have expanded from the basic compute and storage services, as new technologies such as AI, machine learning and deep…
Smartphone CIS Market to Hit US$12 Billion by 2020
CIS (CMOS Image Sensor) has become one of the most vibrant fields in the semiconductors business, with an annual revenue growth rate of up to 10%.…
Samsung DS is Ready to Ride the 5G Wave
Samsung DS (Device Solution) is ready to unleash the huge potential of 5G and IoT, with comprehensive upgrades to the mobile processor, Neural…
Rising UFS Shipments Opens Up Opportunity for Western Digital and Toshiba Memory Corporation
The share of eMCP in mobile memory unit shipments has declined for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 2019 to 58.9% from 65.4% in Q2 2018,…
Syntiant’s Speech Recognition Chip Certified for Alexa
Syntiant, an AI chip start-up based in Irvine, California, received the news on August 7 that its Neural Decision Processors (NDP), NDP100 and NDP…
Why Qualcomm Should Worry About MediaTek’s New Moves?
MediaTek recently launched its Helio G90 and Helio G90T smartphone system-on-a-chip (SoCs), eyeing a growing affordable premium segment as well as…
SEMICON West 2019: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies MRAM, PCM and RRAM to Revolutionize Future AI Workloads
Counterpoint Analysts were invited by Applied Materials, one of the leading semiconductor manufacturing equipment vendors, to participate in the AI…
Habana Labs – A Serious Alternative to NVIDIA for Training Neural Networks?
In June, Israeli start-up Habana Labs announced Gaudi, a 16nm training chip for neural networks. Gaudi represents Habana’s second attempt to break…
SK Hynix to Cut DRAM Production and Reduce Wafer Start of NAND Flash
SK Hynix will begin to cut DRAM production from Q4 2019 as well as reduce its NAND flash wafer start by 15% as compared to its 2018 output. Last…
AMD Q2 2019: Driving High on the 7nm Tech-Train
AMD is riding high under the leadership of its CEO Lisa Su, with increasing traction for its 7nm chipsets and product families. The latest addition…
Mainstream Interface of Mobile Memory Is Transforming to Meet The Demand For New Applications
Consumers’ expectation for better performance will continue to drive up the demand for high-speed and high-bandwidth memory in smartphones in the…
Global Smartphones NAND Memory Tracker and Forecast by Brand, Capacity & Interface: Q1 2019
Overview: eMCP has been the mainstream in mid-to-low end smartphones with 63.9% in share in 1Q19. The proportion of eMMC has been less than 10% and…
AMD Ready to Shake Up The Mobile GPU Market
It is extremely rare these days when a corporate announcement catches everyone by surprise. But in early June, AMD and Samsung shocked the tech…
Growth in Smartphone AP Market to Return Only in 2020
The slowdown in the global smartphone market has affected all stakeholders. Those in the smartphone supply chain and application processors (AP) have…
Another Set of Tariffs on Chinese Imports to the US will Further Slowdown Recovery of NAND Flash Market
The US is likely to impose high tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports, including all handsets manufactured or assembled in China. The tariffs,…