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| ARM opens up instructional set architecture |
10/18/2019 |
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After decades of tight control over the Arm instruction set architecture (ISA), Arm has finally decided that it can allow its licensees to build their own custom instructions, which are often useful to accelerate specialized workloads.
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| Taiwan start-ups aim at bringing digital healthcare technologies to the United States |
10/18/2019 |
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The forum brought nine start-ups — Reliance Biosciences; FaceHeart; Aesop Technology: Heroic-Faith Medical Sciences; Summed Taiwan; AHEAD; RiCHE Biotech; Arvin Bio-Medical Research and MTAMTech Corp. — together with venture investors, technology developers and potential end-users. The companies have created solutions that advance the digital healthcare market through AI, data analytics, and materials or manufacturing break-throughs.
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| Huawei reports revenue gain of 24% over 9 months |
10/17/2019 |
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Huawei, the world’s biggest maker of telecom network equipment and the No. 2 manufacturer of smartphones, was all but banned by the United States in May from doing business with American companies, significantly disrupting its ability to source key parts.
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| Apple said to release 5G modem by 2022 |
10/16/2019 |
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According to Fast Company, Apple's 5G modem development will be led by Esin Terzioglu, a former Qualcomm executive who joined Apple in 2017, and will be based in San Diego. Apple previously announced plans to open an office in San Diego and hire up to 1,000 new employees there over the coming years.
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| Can AI create arts ? |
10/16/2019 |
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Reinforcement learning is a form of unsupervised learning. During training, a second AI agent called the discriminator provides feedback on the results to allow the creating agent to learn. In an image generation context, the discriminator might compare the generated image to the training data and give feedback on whether it could tell the difference. This feedback might be a score which quantifies how difficult it was to tell the difference between the generated image and the training dataset.
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| MediaTek to benefit from the 5G rush |
10/15/2019 |
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“MediaTek’s 5G SoC development is on schedule and should pave the way for its smooth transition into the 5G era in 2020 and let it capture demand tied to the coming 5G-driven handset replacement cycle,”
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| Dialog Semiconductor to acquired Creative Chips of Germany |
10/15/2019 |
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Headquartered in Bingen close to Frankfurt, Germany, with an additional design center in Dresden, Creative Chips is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies a broad portfolio of industrial Ethernet and other mixed-signal products to manufacturers of industrial and building automation systems.
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| MEMS are getting into homes through smart home devices |
10/15/2019 |
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The MEMS market, which follows the semiconductor market, is holding up. It amounted to $11.6 billion in 2018 and is expected to exhibit an 8.2% growth in value and an 11.9% growth in units up to 2024, according to Yole Développement.
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| ARM reportly had a high level meeting with Huawei last week |
10/1/2019 |
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A group photo said more about the US-China trade war than anything the three companies had actually said in four months. That snapshot served to reassure the Chinese media and the local electronics industry of the continuing cooperation among Arm, Arm China and Huawei.
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| Samsung Q3 profit down 60.2% |
10/1/2019 |
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According to the report by Seoul-based financial market tracker FnGuide, Samsung is expected to post 6.9 trillion won ($5.8 billion) in third-quarter operating profit, compared with a profit of 17.5 trillion won a year ago.
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| Micron stock lost big on Friday trading |
9/30/2019 |
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The company said its sales to the Chinese smartphone maker could worsen in the coming quarters if the restrictions continue and if it fails to get licenses.
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| Intel plans to build Optane Technology Center in New Mexico |
9/30/2019 |
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Optane is a new advanced memory technology designed to speed moving data between memory and a central or main processor, boosting performance for the user, according to sister publication Portland Business Journal. The Santa Clara, California-based tech giant said the new technology offers solutions for cloud, artificial intelligence and network edge applications.
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| 5G to drive Flash demand in 2020 |
9/30/2019 |
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Kou of Silicon Motion said that his company expects stable shipments of NAND flash storage chips in the fourth quarter of 2019 amid rising demand and is optimistic about business prospects for 2020 as demand from the smartphone and IoT segments will both be significantly stoked by 5G commercialization.
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| Intel to launch advance memory to its Optane platform next year |
9/27/2019 |
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Intel said it has four generations of Optane DC Persistent Memory and SSDs in the pipeline. The second generation Optane DC Persistent Memory has been dubbed the Barlow Pass, while the Optane SSD will be called the Alder Stream. Intel will also start shipping a 96-layer 3D NAND in the fourth quarter and launch a 144-layer QLC, or 4-bits per cell, 3D NAND next year,
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