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| MCU market to rise to $21.5 billion in 2022 |
3/31/2022 |
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IC Insights is forecasting worldwide MCU sales to increase 10% in 2022 to reach an all-time high of $21.5 billion, with automotive MCU growth outpacing most other end-use categories this year.
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| SK hynix is interest in buying Arm |
3/31/2022 |
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t is "currently in talks with other corporations to jointly invest into Arm for the acquisition," SK hynix co-CEO Park Jung-ho told reporters after an annual general meeting held at the company's headquarters in Icheon, Gyeonggi.
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| Samsung Q4 shipment beats Intel |
3/30/2022 |
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Samsung maintained the top spot as the largest semiconductor company by revenue in the last quarter of last year bringing in revenue of $19.99bn compared to Intel’s $19.97bn. Samsung was also the largest semiconductor firm by revenue in 3Q21, taking over after Intel was the largest in 1Q21 and 2Q21.
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| Price tag of Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti GPU will be at $1,999 in the US |
3/30/2022 |
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VideoCardz has tapped its sources and reports that the price tag of the RTX 3090 Ti will be pitched at $1,999 in the US (around £1,500, AU$2,700) for Nvidia’s own Founders Edition. However, third-party versions from card makers will likely retail for more (perhaps quite a hefty chunk more, based on other spillage of pre-release pricing we’ve heard).
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| Micron Posts Rosy Forecast in Sign of Strong Data-Center Demand |
3/30/2022 |
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Sales will be about $8.7 billion in its fiscal third quarter, Micron said Tuesday in a statement. That compares with an average analyst estimate of $8.2 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Excluding certain items, profit will be about $2.46 a share, topping the $2.24 prediction.
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| SkyDrive and Suzuki Motor to develop flying cars in India |
3/29/2022 |
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Under the terms of the agreement, SkyDrive and Suzuki will start consideration to collaborate in areas of business and technology that include technology R&D, planning of manufacturing and mass-production systems, development of overseas markets with an initial focus on India, and promotion of efforts to attain carbon neutrality.
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| DRAM prices expected to drop up to 5% throughout Q2 2022 |
3/29/2022 |
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It is due to marginally higher buyer and seller inventories coupled with the demand for products such as PCs, laptops, and smart phones being influenced in the short-term by the Russian-Ukrainian war and high inflation weakening consumer purchasing power.
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| Toshiba shareholders voted against splitting the company |
3/25/2022 |
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Toshiba shareholders voted against the management’s plan to split the company into two parts – infrastructure products and devices. Shareholders also voted against a proposal by activist shareholder 3D Investment Partners of Singapore to consider other options including a sale of the company to private equity.
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| Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger urged US Congress to pass Chip Bill |
3/25/2022 |
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Gelsinger made his comments alongside the CEOs of memory vendor Micron and semiconductor equipment maker LAM Research during a US Senate Committee hearing that largely focused on the pros and cons of passing subsidies for chipmakers.
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| IC production reports minimal damage by quakes in Japan |
3/25/2022 |
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According to TrendForce, in the main quake zone, only Kioxia’s K1 Fab (located in Kitakami) will face the possibility of a further downgrade to 1Q22 production. Some of the remaining memory or semiconductor companies in the region are conducting machine inspections but the overall impact has been muted.
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| Tablet shipment increased by 76% in Thailand |
3/25/2022 |
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According to the International Data Corp.’s (IDC) Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, Heightened demand for online grocery and food delivery services amid the coronavirus outbreak also drove commercial usage.
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| Qualcomm se $100M as Snapdragon Metaverse Fund |
3/24/2022 |
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Qualcomm announced this week its Snapdragon Metaverse Fund, which boasts a total investment of $100 million meant to support both developers and companies actively producing extended reality (XR) ecosystems as well as the augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies designed to advance the XR experience.
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| In-memory computing draws attention |
3/24/2022 |
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As interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and in-memory computing significantly increases, resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) could be the key to unlocking their ability to imitate the human brain—yet challenges remain.
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