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| More data centers are latching onto ARM processor |
12/27/2021 |
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Five percent of servers shipped to cloud providers during the July-September period contained an Arm CPU, according to market tracker Omdia. Amazon Web Service’s Arm-based Graviton processor contributed to the surge. Ampere Computing, another vendor offering Arm processors, also saw strong demand from cloud customers such as Equinix and Oracle.
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| Hitachi provides Inspection system for-small geometry EUV |
12/24/2021 |
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Hitachi High-Tech is responding to this increased demand for high-speed, sensitive inspection and measurements over a wide area and is launching GS1000 system to fulfil the needs of semiconductor device mass-production market.
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| Samsung Electronics trumps Intel on Q3 sales |
12/22/2021 |
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Industry tracker Omdia said Intel, which had been the top chipmaker for 11 straight quarters, slipped to number two behind Samsung "as the memory segment, where Samsung is the number one DRAM and NAND supplier, was the largest growth area for semiconductor" in the three months ending in September.
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| An affordable, voice-enabled AI Assistant that continually learns |
12/21/2021 |
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“Our initial lab provided proof that the use of an AI Assistant can greatly reduce documentation burden and family physician burnout, and Phase 2 of the lab series determined whether an AI Assistant is essential to and readily adoptable by family physicians.”
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| MediaTek offers Dimensity 9000 5G smartphone chip |
12/21/2021 |
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MediaTek announced device maker adoption and endorsements from some of the world’s biggest smartphone brands, including OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi, and Honor. The first Dimensity 9000 powered flagship smartphones will be in the market in the first quarter of next year.
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| NAND flash ASPs to expect slump during 2022 |
12/20/2021 |
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NAND flash ASPs are expected to undergo a 10-15% sequential decline in the first quarter of 2022, after an up to 5% decrease in the prior quarter, as the market shifts to oversupply, according to TrendForce. Nevertheless, the anticipated 10-15% price fall would be the largest on-quarter drop in 2022, TrendForce believes.
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| Samsung regains top spot in smartphone sales |
12/20/2021 |
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Samsung was able to increase its shipments by shifting products quickly from its manufacturing facilities in Vietnam to stakeholders further down the channel. But other OEMs found it tough to tackle the ongoing component shortages and, overall, both offline and online channels faced low supplies. All this helped Samsung recapture the top spot with a 23% share in the key Southeast Asia countries.
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| Samsung began volume production for automotive memory |
12/17/2021 |
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Samsung is in volume production of memories designed for automotive applications including a 256GB PCIe Gen3 NVMe ball grid array (BGA) SSD, 2GB GDDR6 DRAM and 2GB DDR4 DRAM for high-performance infotainment systems, as well as 2GB GDDR6 DRAM and 128GB Universal Flash Storage (UFS) for autonomous driving systems.
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| Memory and storage requirements will spur chip demand in the 5G world |
12/17/2021 |
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P>Leading semiconductor and component suppliers in areas like memory chips and storage arrays are focusing on the opportunities presented by the 5G expansion, designing and manufacturing wireless devices capable of operating at new frequencies. New devices will also be able to process and store significantly more data than previous generations of cellular technology.
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