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| MediaTek posted record highs |
10/14/2021 |
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MediaTek recorded NT$47.91 billion (US$1.7 billion) for its September sales, which represents an 11.9% increase from August figures, and a 26.51% year-on-year change. Third-quarter 2021 revenue came in at NT$131.07 billion, a 4.31% bump compared to Q2 results.
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| Senator Elizabeth Warren called for breaking up Amazon.com |
10/14/2021 |
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Investigation showed the e-commerce giant had copied products and rigged search results in India. Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers plans to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms from favoring their products and services.
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| Rain Neuromorphic taped out its analog AI chip |
10/13/2021 |
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Rain Neuromorphics has taped out a demonstration chip for its brain-inspired analog architecture that employs a 3D array of randomly-connected memristors to compute neural network training and inference at extremely low power.
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| End of AMD Play Station 5 shortage may finally be in sight |
10/12/2021 |
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Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, said this week (via Spieltimes): “I expect it to be from June-September of next year 2022 when, perhaps, it will be possible to go down to a video game store or a department store to buy a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X without it being an impossible task.”
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| Gaming PCs expected continue to be strong through 2025 |
10/11/2021 |
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For gaming PCs, which includes both desktop and notebook PCs, unit shipments are expected to grow from 41.3 million in 2020 and to 52.3 million in 2025. Similarly, the gaming monitor market is expected to jump from 14.2 million units shipped to 26.4 million during the same time frame. This equates to the two product categories having five-year compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) of 4.8% and 13.2%, respectively.
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| Navitas Semiconductor opened a new office in Shenzhen, China |
10/11/2021 |
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This investment supports the rapid growth of GaN mobile fast chargers, as well as the company’s recently-announced expansion plans to enable GaN-based data centers, solar installations and electric vehicles, which represent a multi-$B market opportunity for the company.
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| Deep EUV to carry Moore's Law for 10 more years |
10/8/2021 |
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Starting in the first half of 2023 ASML plans to offer customers equipment that takes EUV numerical aperture (NA) higher to 0.55 NA from the existing 0.33 NA. The company believes that the new equipment will help chip makers reach process nodes well beyond the current threshold (2nm) for at least another 10 years,
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| Stanford researchers lowers PCM (phase-change memory) switch power |
10/7/2021 |
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Researchers at Stanford University who came together working in separate areas have been able to demonstrate a lower switching current density of ~0.1 mega-ampere per square centimeter in flexible superlattice PCM, which is one to two orders of magnitude lower than in conventional PCM on flexible or silicon substrates.
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| Semiconductor shortage is becoming a Global norm |
10/7/2021 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest foundry service provider, said that it expects its revenue to expand more than 20 percent this year from last year. TSMC has reportedly raised prices by 10 to 20 percent for new orders.
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