The application of artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in many fields, such as cloud computing, high efficiency computing (HPC), self driving, encrypting money and block chain, intelligent mobile phone edge operation. In order to differentiate the industry from the same industry, the operation processor has turned from GPU to the development of the special application chip. (ASIC).

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.

Google voice assistant Google Assistant shows amazing communication ability in the recent I/O developer conference, which has become the focus of the whole conference and has caused a warm echo. In contrast, the results of Microsoft (Microsoft) are relatively poor, and underline the addition of advanced Duplex technology, Google artificial intelligence (AI). The leading position is more established.

AMD has released the latest new product roadmap, of which second generation Ryzen ThreadRipper (sharp threading tearing) announced the same, three new products including 16 core flagship 2950X, 12 core 2920X, 8 core 2900X, which are expected to be similar to the two generation of sharp dragon, with the new technology and new architecture (12NM Zen+), to further improve the frequency, reduce delay, heat. Design power consumption is expected to remain at 180W or slightly increase.

Last week, Bloomberg quoted an insider as saying that Qualcomm was prepared to abandon the development of data center oriented enterprise server chips.

Nvidia announcement first quarter earnings, revenue 3 billion 210 million US $3 billion 210 million annual increase 65.6%, gross profit rate 64.5%, revenue and profit are better than expected, in addition to AI and competition maintenance upsurge, with a number of new games launched, GTX 1070 and GTX 1070 have a good performance, estimated 2018 performance is still sustainable 20% year growth.

Intel 10nm technology is still struggling, TSI and Samsung have begun to produce 7Nm, the next step is 5nm, and TSI has also recently opened some of the key indicators of 5nm, which seems not to be very optimistic.

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.

Aiming at the business opportunity of the intelligent vehicle information entertainment system (IVI System), Google announced with Intel (Intel) and Volvo on Google I/O 2018 to create a new generation of intelligent IVI System--Sensus by the new Android P operating system version and Atom processor. Le Assistant voice assistant system is equipped with voice control car, or Google Maps is used to get real-time map and traffic condition.