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| China's lock-down to affect smartphone IC supplies |
6/7/2022 |
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Taiwanese smartphone IC designer MediaTek Inc (???) and US rival Qualcomm Inc felt the sting of China’s COVID-19 lockdowns as their smartphone IC shipments from the country fell in April, market advisory firm CINNO Research said.
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| IBM warns: "the Chips Act is no sure thing." |
6/7/2022 |
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There's clearly a global recognition that we need to build up semiconductor supply chain capabilities, particularly in the U.S., Europe and Japan. There's a recognition that over-reliance on Taiwan is neither economically wise nor prudent from a national security standpoint. The reality is the war in Ukraine, while it has nothing to do with chips in Taiwan, has reminded everybody — as COVID did — that supply chains need to be robust.
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| Synopsys offers Big Data Analytics Technology |
6/7/2022 |
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The Synopsys DesignDash solution delivers a real-time, unified, 360-degree view of all design activities for faster decision making, a deeper understanding of run-to-run, design-to-design and project-to-project trends, and enhanced collaboration in the SoC development process.
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| India wants to become the next major global semiconductor hub |
6/6/2022 |
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Make in India: an initiative to attract foreign investments to start looking at India as a viable manufacturing hub by easing trade barriers in foreign policies. This initiative opens up the possibility of creating more jobs for a very heavily populated country like India, developing economic areas meant to serve for the development of these industries and hopefully strengthen the Rupee against the US dollar.
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| Can EV batteries be free of nickel and cobalt? |
6/3/2022 |
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Demand for nickel and cobalt has surged in recent years and automakers are adopting strategies to hedge against the turbulent market. Tesla has changed its tune and said in April that nearly half of its vehicles sold in the first three months of the year do not include nickel or cobalt.
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| Samsung is on the road to growth by M & A |
6/3/2022 |
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Potential takeover targets include NXP, Texas Instruments, Microchip Technologies and Analog Devices, according to multiple analysts including JJ Park, an analyst at J.P. Morgan.
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| Intel lobbies Chip deal to US and Eu government |
6/3/2022 |
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Intel Corp twitted a press release with the title "Are Chips the Testbed for Increased Transatlantic Cooperation?" recently, making clear its stance to support a collaboration between the US and the EU to yield the greatest benefits from investments in leading-edge manufacturing investments and more advanced semiconductor research.
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| Startup Ayar Labs to work with Nvidia on optical chips |
6/2/2022 |
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Nvidia, in a statement. “The next million–X will require new, advanced technologies like optical I/O to support the bandwidth, power, and scale requirements of future AI and ML workloads and system architectures.”
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| Samsung Electronics taking the lead with 44% in global DRAM revenue |
6/1/2022 |
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Samsung is undoubtedly the winner, but market share does not necessarily translate into actual profits, nor does it mean that the company still leads the trio in terms of profitability rate. Samsung's market share is about twice that of Micron, but their memory business operating profit margin shows a gap of only 3-10pp.
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| Samsung and Red Hat Inc collaborate to offer open-source memory software |
6/1/2022 |
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The partnership will focus on the development and validation of open source software for existing and emerging memory and storage products, including NVMe SSDs, CXL memory, computational memory/storage (HBM-PIM, Smart SSDs) and fabrics, in building an expansive ecosystem for closely integrated memory hardware and software.
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| Exploring graphene batteries |
6/1/2022 |
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Graphene has now found a lot of commercial interest in battery and energy storage technologies, and alongside biosensors and phone cooling systems (several Chinese phones now use graphene cooling systems), batteries have become one of the most commercialized high–tech applications for graphene.
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| NAND flash revenue down 3% |
5/31/2022 |
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As manufacturers actively shifted production capacity to 128 layer products, the NAND flash market turned to oversupply, resulting in a drop in contract prices in the first quarter (1Q22), among which the decline in consumer-grade products was more pronounced,
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| Cincoze brings new turn to Edge Computing |
5/31/2022 |
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DV-1000 is an excellent fit for high-performance industrial applications with limited installation space, such as smart manufacturing, machine vision, and railway computing. The new DV series rounds out the Cincoze DIAMOND product line, providing industrial customers more performance, scalability, size, power, and certification options.
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| Thailand is geared up for innovation city projects |
5/31/2022 |
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After the country’s reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic, Bangkok is intended to be a regional innovation hub for innovation-friendly investment, regional air travel hub, and the creation of innovation districts, with the goal of attracting innovation-based entrepreneurs and stimulating strategic partnerships from around the world.
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