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Micron rides memory boom

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Sharply higher memory prices pushed Micron Technology to calendar Q1 revenues of $4.65 billion for net income of $894 million. The increase in the company’s revenues of 17% for calendar Q1 compared to calendar Q4 2016 was due primarily to a 21% increase in DRAM ASPs and an 18% increase in NAND sales volumes. “Strong …

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China recruitment drive boosting semi salaries

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China is aggressively recruiting semiconductor engineers and execs, reports headhunters TrendForce, leading to a boost in salaries across the entire semiconductor industry. With a number of new fabs set to start production in H2 2018, China is looking for veteran semiconductor people, particularly memory specialists, to run them. Memory specialists are particularly required because Yangtze …

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Measuring critical material properties of capacitors and inductors

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Giovanni D’Amore discusses approaches to characterising both dielectric and magnetic materials using impedance analysers and specialist fixtures. We are used to thinking about technological progress in terms of mobile phone model generations, or semiconductor manufacturing process nodes. These provide a useful shorthand, but overshadow progress in enabling technologies, such as those in materials science. Anyone …

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How will Ethernet go real-time for industrial networks?

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Ethernet is now being used for real-time communications in industrial automation networks and Rahman Jamal from National Instruments explains the pros and cons of the OPC-UA and TSN protocols Which tasks and functions do OPC-UA and TSN (time-sensitive network) protocols fulfil respectively in industrial systems? Rahman Jamal: TSN and OPC-UA operate at different (and compatible) …

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2A switching regulator replaces TO-220 linears

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Recom has introduced a three-pin 2A switching regulator that is pin-compatible with linear regulators in TO-220 packages and operates at up to 96% efficiency – and therefore doesn’t need a heatsink. Part of the R-78B series, it comes in a 11.5 x 8.5 x 17.5 mm SIP3 package, making the power density up to 17.5W/cm³, said Recom. …

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Researchers show 5G mobile working indoors

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Collaborative research taking place between the Universities of Bristol and Lund, National Instruments and BT has set up field trials of a massive MIMO system working in a large indoor environment. The aim was to test massive MIMO spatial multiplexing indoors and improve the understanding of massive MIMO radio channels under mobile conditions with untethered …

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China’s Chipper Chips

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An interesting chart from the China SIA quoted by Semiconductor Intelligence shows that China’s chip strategy is actually doing rather well. Based on UN trade data, the chart shows that China chip imports have been flattish for the last three years while the output of the domestic chip industry has tripled. So China is increasingly …

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