According to earnings preliminary data show that the Bosch Group in 2017 achieved a substantial increase of 6.7% in sales, reaching 78 billion euros. After adjusting for the impact of the exchange rate, total sales increased by 8.3%, of which the exchange rate affected about 1.2 billion euros. Dr. Volkmar Dunner, Chairman of the Board of Bosch Group, said at the Group Data Initial Communication meeting in Ludwigsburg that "in 2017, we achieved a new high in sales, business growth exceeded our expectations and profit margin Has also been further improved.

January 31, although the memory chip prices have dropped than in the past, but Samsung's future mobile phones and other mobile products is still strong demand. Earnings report, Samsung Electronics fourth quarter operating profit up 64% year-on-year to 15.15 trillion won (about 141.38 billion US dollars), memory contribution to profits accounted for about 2/3 of 10.2 trillion won, compared with the same period in 2016 Grow more than twice.

The European Commission said Qualcomm's proposal for a patent license has eliminated concerns that the deal could affect chip sales. Qualcomm promised not to acquire some NXP patents related to near field communications. Qualcomm will also maintain the existing license terms for NXP's Mifare technology used on the London subway card system for a period of eight years and will ensure that the NXP chip will interoperate with other chips.

Broadcom unveiled its silicon-proven 7nm IP core that will power popular AI (Artificial Intelligence), 5G and high-bandwidth networking markets with Application Specific ASICs (ASICs). Broadcom to build 7-nanometer ASIC for customers to finalize the design finalized by the end of the year, Broadcom also said it will be 7 nanometer ASIC foundry and CoWoS package orders by TSMC is responsible for.

TSMC's earnings report released yesterday showed that the company slipped margin slightly in the fourth quarter of last year due to the offset of some revenue growth due to the stronger exchange rate of NTD.

ASML, the world's leading semiconductor equipment supplier, announced the fourth quarter of 2017 results on the 17th. According to the earnings report, revenue for the fourth quarter of 2017 increased 4.7% from the third quarter to an amount of 2.561 billion Euros with a gross profit margin of 45.2%, up 2.3% from 42.9% in the third quarter. After-tax net profit increased 15.6% to 644 million euros.

If a car travels at 100 kilometers an hour, a network latency of 30 milliseconds means a moving distance of 83.33 centimeters and a one millisecond moving distance is only 2.78 centimeters. In fact, a lot of traffic accidents happen between this concept. Some statistics show that the average braking response time of drivers is about 0.8 seconds. The fast response capability of automatic driving under 5G network is better than that of humans.

On the evening of January 16, BOE A announced that it has recently signed the Debt Exemption Agreement with Fuzhou Chengtou BOE Investment Co., Ltd., Fuzhou Urban Construction Investment Group and Fuzhou Municipal People's Government on the "Fuzhou 8.5th Generation New Semiconductor Display Device Production Line Project Investment Framework Agreement" , Exempting companies from using the loans for the project totaling 6.3 billion yuan.

ROHM, a world-renowned semiconductor manufacturer, develops battery-operated electronic devices such as electronic dictionaries, home appliance remotes and small objects (toys and accessories) to develop step-up DC / DC converters that consume as little current as the industry's smallest MOSFETs * 1) "BU33UV7NUX".

Flexible AMOLED has become the mainstream technology for smartphones and smartwatch panels. In particular, Apple's smartphones have accelerated their investment in soft AMOLED panels after their display panels shifted to soft AMOLED technology . On the other hand, the operating profit margin of the AMOLED panel of Samsung Display (SDC) has generally remained at 15-20% in recent years, outperforming the vast majority of TFT LCD manufacturers and increasing the incentive for other companies to invest in soft AMOLEDs.