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| DRAM spot market prices have begun to rebound |
12/17/2019 |
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DRAMeXchange indicated. Although downgraded chips are currently still being returned, memory module makers and channel brokers have become more willing to raise their inventories. With the stockpile of downgraded 1Xnm chips being quickly digested, spot prices have also started rising.
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| Lattice Semiconductor launched new low-power FPGA based on FD-SOI |
12/17/2019 |
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Lattice announced its intention to transition to FD-SOI for new products a couple of years ago, in order to take advantage of the process technology’s inherent strengths in power consumption and reliability. The company’s Nexus FD-SOI platform continues its focus on small form factor, low power FPGAs, and is optimized for devices with 10-200k logic cells.
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| Xiaomi's smartphone goes for side-mount fingerprints reader |
12/16/2019 |
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Swedish firm Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints) has just rolled out the FPC1540 slim side-mounted capacitive touch sensor for biometric authentication. Placed on the side of Xiaomi’s Redmi K30 smartphone inside the power button, the sensor is also suitable for the latest smartphone designs, including borderless and foldable phones.
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| U.S. reached Phase 1 trade deal with China |
12/16/2019 |
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Chinese have agreed to "massive'' purchases of American farm and manufactured products. . The office of Trump's trade representative said China had consented to "structural reforms'' that would improve intellectual property protection and curb the practice of forcing foreign companies to hand over technology as the price of admission to the Chinese market.
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| Cisco to sell switcher chips to major data-center operators |
12/13/2019 |
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Cisco is now offering the chips, which it says are the fastest in the industry, to all of its customers, regardless of whether they buy its networking machinery. Previously Cisco’s chips were only available as components of its machines.
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| Everspin Technologies offers 32-Mb Toggle MRAM |
12/13/2019 |
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It’s designed to enable critical applications that need a higher density option, such as storing configurations, setup and data logging in embedded systems and Internet of things (IoT) devices, as well as anticipating device requirements driven by 5G networking,
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| Toyota North America CEO to retire after 38 years |
12/13/2019 |
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Now, after 38 years in a number of leadership roles with Toyota, Jim Lentz is retiring, effective April 1. Lentz, 64, will step down as CEO of Toyota Motor North America, and will be replaced by Tetsuo “Ted” Ogawa, who currently chief operating officer.
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| Original GPS inventors to receive Top-Engineer Award |
12/12/2019 |
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Prince Charles presented the award to Dr Bradford Parkinson, Hugo Fruehauf, Richard Schwartz, and Anna Marie Spilker, who accepted the award on behalf of her late husband, Professor James Spilker, Jr. They were honored for their work in creating the first truly global, satellite-based positioning system, GPS.
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| Apple sued former employee for breach of employment contract |
12/12/2019 |
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When Gerard Williams bolted from Apple early in 2018 to become CEO of a startup processor company, he was tempting fate, given how common it is for corporations to induce employees to sign non-compete agreements. Unsurprisingly, fate just came calling in the form of a lawsuit against Williams from his former employer, charging him with breach of contract.
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| November Consumer prices up 0.3% |
12/12/2019 |
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Inflation is in line with the Federal Reserve's target of 2% a year. The Fed has cut the short-term interest rate it controls three times this year, partly to protect a record-breaking U.S. economic expansion from the effects of President Donald Trump's trade war with China.
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| General Motors to assemble big SUV in Texas |
12/12/2019 |
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The length of the Tahoe will grow nearly 7 inches (18 centimeters) to almost 211 inches (536 centimeters). The Suburban gains just over an inch (2.5 centimeters) in length to nearly 226 inches (676 centimeters). The extra length, though, enabled engineers to raise the Tahoe's cargo space behind the third row by 67% to 25.5 cubic feet (0.72 cubic meters). Suburban rear cargo space rose about 5% to 41 cubic feet (1.2 cubic meters).
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| House Democrats okay'd revised NAFTA |
12/11/2019 |
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“There is no question of course that this trade agreement is much better than NAFTA," Pelosi said in announcing the agreement, saying the pact is “infinitely better than what was initially proposed by the administration."
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| U.S. productivity fell 0.2% in the July-September quarter |
12/11/2019 |
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Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, is crucial to boosting living standards. Rising output means that employers can pay their workers more with the increased production without having to raise their prices, a move that can trigger higher inflation.
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| Small business hiring still lags the strong job growth |
12/10/2019 |
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ADP said its customers with up to 49 employees added 11,000 jobs in November, one of the weakest showings this year. ADP's numbers are often revised, but the November count followed a trend; it was preceded by gain of 12,000 in October and a still-weak 39,000 in September.
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| Final toll is 43 dead at Indian factory fire |
12/10/2019 |
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43 people were killed in a devastating fire at an illegal factory there. Dozens of workers who were asleep when the fire broke out were trapped Sunday in the burning four-story building with little ventilation and only one exit.
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| Global memory chip market to rebound next year |
12/9/2019 |
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The NAND flash market in 2020 is expected to grow 19 percent, the largest sales growth rate among 33 integrated circuit (IC) products, according to market researcher IC Insights. DRAM, a type of volatile memory, ranked third with 12 percent growth, just behind a 13 percent gain for auto special purpose IC.
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