The TrendForce storage research (DRAMeXchange) survey indicates that, although the demand for smartphones and notebook computers has improved in the first quarter, it is still unable to offset the growth of 3D NAND Flash productivity increase and good rate improvement, which makes suppliers have to adjust prices further in the face of higher inventory pressure.

According to foreign media reports, China's ASIC chip maker Bitmain, which has previously sold 80% of the world's mining industry, is now considering entering a challenging field of artificial intelligence, hoping to develop a bitcoin AI chip.

IC design service factory creative electronics last year, revenue and profit created a new record, Chen Chaogan, general manager of this year's operating outlook continues to be optimistic, the performance is expected to have a good growth this year.

Fujitsu (Fujitsu) formally crossed the field of quantum computing, and published the latest quantum computing technology, --Fujitsu Digital Annealer, in the "2018 Fujitsu forum" that was held in front of the day. Digital Annealer combines the latest technology of traditional operation and quantum operation and the design of digital circuit structure based on the concept of quantum computing. It can use large data for combinatorial optimal calculus at high speed and effectively. The future is expected to be applied in many aspects, including medical research, financial investment, inventory management, digital marketing and so on. Field.

Science and technology factory layout "next generation computing tools" quantum computer, Fujitsu (Fujitsu) in Japan ICT (Fujitsu), yesterday issued a quantum computing chip, and Google, IBM and other European and American plants to seize "quantum hegemony", to seize a huge business opportunities of hundreds of billions of dollars.

According to WinFuture.de, a German technology media, Qualcomm's upcoming wearable chip will support eyeball tracking. The upcoming Xiaolong Wear 3100 will not only be equipped with smart watches, but will also be equipped with AR devices similar to Google Glass. The report points out that one of the recruitment information in Qualcomm has also mentioned that wearable chips can be used for "augmented reality glasses".

A Morimi semiconductor has announced the acquisition of SensL Technologies Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "SensL"). The acquisition is expected to immediately increase the non GAAP (Non-GAAP) earnings per share of A Morimi semiconductor. SensL, headquartered in Ireland, is a technical leader for the automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets for silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) and LiDAR (LiDAR) sensing products.

Investment industry (WeChat ID:pedaily2012) May 7th news, focused on the wafer level optical chip company Kun tour optoelectronic announced the completion of the A2 round of financing, the current round by the yuan capital, warden international and the Chinese Academy of Sciences under the foundation of the fund co investment. Kun Yu has been awarded several rounds of financing such as Shun Yu optics, Kun Chung capital, Chen Hui venture capital and China Star.

Benefited from the strong stock demand of the new mobile phone, the second quarter revenue will increase by 19% to 23% in the first quarter of the driver's leading chip factory, and the revenue increase is more than the market expectations. In addition, Wang Shouren, the general manager, also revealed that the second half of the year will be better than the first half of the year. The second quarter operating target is quite optimistic. The single quarter combined revenue is estimated to be between 12 billion 500 million yuan (NT, the same) to 12 billion 900 million yuan, 19% to 23% in the quarter, and the second quarter gross interest rate is expected to be between 28% and 29.5%, while the single season operating interest rate is expected to fall between 12% and 13.5%.

TechCrunch reported that Google CEO Sundar Pichai 8 released the third generation TPU (Tensor Processor Unit, Tensor) at the 2018 Google I/O conference. He said that the efficiency of TPU 3 rack cluster (Pod) was 8 times higher than that of TPU 2 Pod last year, up to 100petaFLOPS.