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| Chinese nationals charged with laundering over $100 million cryptocurrency |
3/5/2020 |
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North Korean hackers gained access to a virtual currency exchange in 2018 and stole nearly $250 million worth of virtual currency before laundering the cryptocurrency through several transactions. The hackers used doctored photographs and fake identification to avoid scrutiny and used the stolen money to pay for tools used in other North Korean hacking campaigns.
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| SK Hynix to start mass production of HBM2E SDRAM |
3/5/2020 |
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The SoC meets JEDEC's HBM2E SDRAM standard based on the 7-nm process of TSMC, and has a data rate of 409 GB/sec. It can handle 110 full HD movies (3.7 GB per film) in just one second.
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| Wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors insensitive to space radiations |
3/5/2020 |
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WBG has several advantages compared to traditional silicon-based technology, such as the ability to manage high power levels, insensitivity to radiation, high-temperature operation, high switching frequencies, low noise, low power losses, and high efficiency.
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| AMD gains ground on GPU sales |
3/4/2020 |
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The report looked at the outlook for the market during Q4 of 2019, and noted that AMD has achieved a growth of 22.6 percent in shipment volume for the last quarter of 2019, compared to the same quarter in 2018. In contrast, main competitor Nvidia, saw a decrease in its shipments during the same quarter of just under 2 percent, with Intel showing a 0.2 percent increase.
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| Northrop Grumman to provide in orbit filling station for satellites |
3/4/2020 |
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Northrop Grumman said this week its MEV-1 spacecraft successfully linked up with the Intelsat 901 satellite to provide “life-extension services.” Besides refueling, the service includes on-orbit checkouts and relocation of the 18-year-old communications satellite that is part of an Intelsat constellation in geosynchronous orbit.
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| Breakthrough overcomes fault in facial recognition |
3/4/2020 |
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It extracts three data streams from a single camera system: a 2D IR image, a 3D depth map and material classification. While its latest announcement targets enhanced security for smartphones and consumer products.
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| Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) of SRAM provides perhaps the ultimate security |
3/4/2020 |
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An SRAM PUF is enabled by a local mismatch between the threshold voltage in a pair of MOSFETs to generate a positive feedback loop. The slight differences caused by the mismatch characteristics will be amplified and divided into 0 or 1 and stored in SRAM. A random value of either 0 or 1 results from the variations of the threshold voltage in the MOSFETs.
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| Electronics maker Sharp to join face mask manufacturing |
3/3/2020 |
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Sharp, owned by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as FoxConn, of Taiwan, said mask production at its Mie Prefecture plant will start by the end of this month, at 150,000 masks a day, rising to 500,000 a day.
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| February PMI shows manufacturing still in expansion |
3/3/2020 |
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The Institute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers, said Monday that its manufacturing index registered 50.1 last month. That is down from 50.9 in January. But anything above 50 signals growth.
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| General Motors to add 1200 head count at at two Michigan factories |
3/3/2020 |
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GM said Friday that its Lansing Delta Township plant will get a third shift and 800 more workers to build the Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave SUVs, which have three rows of seats. The Lansing Grand River plant will get a second shift and 400 more workers to build two new Cadillac sedans, the CT4 and CT5.
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| Air Force wants to engage in a flying car concept |
3/3/2020 |
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The USAF sees such a craft as using electronic vertical-takeoff-and-landing technologies (eVTOL) in providing a quicker way to shuttle troops and equipment in and around the battlefield or for search-and-rescue missions.
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| List of companies going with Qualcomm 5G RAN platform |
3/2/2020 |
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The companies that have adopted the platform include: Airspan, Altiostar, Baicells, Corning, Radisys, Rakuten, Samsung, Sercomm, Small Cell Forum, T&W, and Verizon.
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| Globalfoundries offers eMRAM on 22nm FD-SOI |
3/2/2020 |
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Designed as a replacement for high-volume embedded NOR flash (eFlash), GLoFo’s eMRAM allows designers to extend their existing IoT and microcontroller unit architectures to access the power and density benefits of technology nodes below 28nm.
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| Walmart to offer Walmart+ shipping to compete with Amazon Prime |
3/2/2020 |
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News website Vox first reported the news about Walmart's new membership program earlier Thursday and said the discounter would have certain perks that the online leader couldn't offer. Vox says that the Bentonville, Arkansas retailer will be publicly testing the program as soon as March.
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| Emerging memories to grow 118% in next few years |
2/28/2020 |
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The storage-class memory market is projected to reach billion-dollar revenue within the next few years and Optane is key to this with Intel saying saying that there are currently more than 200 ongoing proof-of-concepts based on Optane DIMMs, and that the conversion rate from proof-of-concept to deployment has exceeded 80%
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| U.S. economy grew 2.1% in Q4 |
2/28/2020 |
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Economists have been downgrading their forecasts for the first quarter of this year as fears of the virus’ impact have escalated. Stock markets have plunged this week on news that the number of coronavirus cases worldwide has now topped 81,000.
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| Coronavirus can trigger a recession if not handled carefully |
2/28/2020 |
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These economic impacts would likely come in four forms: shortages of products from China, reduced sales to China, a drop in consumer spending based on fears about the virus and falling stock prices. Let me evaluate the potential impact of each, but bear in mind that they are all interconnected, and a drop in just one can affect the others.
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| Imec works with ASML to create 3nm node process |
2/27/2020 |
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By combining advanced imaging schemes, innovative resist materials and optimized settings on ASML’s NXE:3400B system in Imec’s cleanroom, the system is capable of printing lines/spaces at 24 nm pitch in a single exposure step which corresponding to the dimensions of critical BEOL metal layers of a 3nm node process.
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| Analyst see memory capacity investment rebound |
2/27/2020 |
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Memory equipment investment is expected to increase in 2020 in response to a decline in investment in 2019. Considering recent improvement in memory supply-demand conditions, a significant memory supply shortage is likely in 2021 unless investment picks up in 2H20.
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| U.S. consumer confidence improved slightly in February |
2/26/2020 |
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Conference Board economist Lynn Franco said that consumers continue to view the outlook as favorable, and when this is combined with solid employment growth, it should be enough to support continued spending and economic growth in the near term.
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