In the global NAND flash market, Samsung, Toshiba, Western Digital, Micron, SK Hynix and Intel account for the majority. NAND flash memory is also an important area that China has been catching up with in recent years, especially Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC), which invested US$24 billion in Wuhan to build China’s largest storage…

Toshiba is targeting automotive applications with a high-speed analogue-output optocoupler TLX9309 . Comms in electric and hybrid-electric vehicles is the main target. TLX9309 empowers high-speed communication in automotive applications, mainly for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV). It has a high-output LED made up of GaAIAs, integrated with a high-speed detector consist of photodiode and…

The Top 100 Global Innovators report is the latest in an annual series that stretches back to 2011. In these reports, we seek to identify the most innovative organizations around the globe and to recognize and celebrate their contributions to providing new solutions to existing and unmet future challenges for the betterment of individual lives…

Toshiba says it has completed the sale of its chip business to a consortium comprised of Bain, Hynix, Apple, Dell, Seagate and Kingston Technology. Under the new ownership structure of  the memory unit, Toshiba and optical products specialist Hoya, will have a 50.1% stake in Toshiba Memory with Toshiba having 40.2% and Hoya having 9.9%. Bain…

All the TOP 15 Semiconductor Sales Learders 1Q18 have gains. Thirteen Top-15 1Q18 Semi Suppliers Register Double-Digit Gains. Samsung extends its number one ranking and sales lead over Intel to 23%. IC Insights will release its May Update to the 2018 McClean Report later this month.  This Update includes a discussion of the 1Q18 IC industry market results, an update of the 2018…

China has approved U.S. private-equity firm Bain Capital’s $18 billion dealfor Toshiba Corp.’s memory-chip unit, in a possible gesture of goodwill as Beijing tries to stave off U.S. trade penalties. The acquisition is set to be completed on June 1, Toshiba said. Chinese antitrust regulators had been weighing the deal for months, and some inside Toshiba doubted that approval…