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| Second quarter productivity growth at 2.3% |
9/5/2019 |
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The moderate growth in overall productivity was flagged by a deceleration in gross domestic product growth in the April-June period. The economy grew at a 2.0% rate in the second quarter after expanding at a 3.1% pace in the first quarter.
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| Business bloom at 8 inch foundries |
9/4/2019 |
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Eight-inch IC foundries have seen their fabless customers engaged in the fingerprint sensor, touchscreen IC, analog chip and LCD driver IC sectors step up their pace of orders recently.
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| Boeing making a fundamental change to its 737 MAX software |
9/4/2019 |
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Two flight control computers are standard on the 737 MAX under the current system—which is decades old. But the automated flight control system will only pull data from one computer at a time: it will take input from one computer on one flight and switch to the other computer for the next flight. Boeing is altering the system’s software so that it will take input from both flight control computers simultaneously. The new software architecture will employ a two-channel “fail-safe” system where each flight computer will operate using input from an independent set of sensors
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| Chinese stock rise while the Yuan fluctuate |
9/3/2019 |
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The Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP) ended up 0.2% at 2,930.15, the best close since July 31. It extended a 1.3% rally on Monday. Infrastructure, shipbuilding and consumer electronics stocks continued to lead the market higher after promising economic data on Monday.
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| Xilinx’ latest offering is the biggest FPGA ever built |
9/3/2019 |
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The Virtex Ultrascale+ VU19P, built on the 16nm process node, has the highest logic density and I/O count on a single device ever built: 9 million system logic cells and over 2,000 user I/Os. The mammoth device also features up to 1.5 Tbps of DDR4 memory bandwidth and up to 4.5 Tbps of transceiver bandwidth.
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| Toshiba Memory to swallow up Lite-On SSD Division |
9/3/2019 |
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The transaction, expected to be a purchase of shares in an all-cash deal and completed by April 2020 (subject to relevant approvals), involves the transfer of Lite-On SSD's business operations and assets, including inventories, equipment, personnel, intellectual properties, technologies and client and supplier relationships.
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| Hailo offer new class of AI accelerator |
9/2/2019 |
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Hailo-8 boasts performance of 26 TOPS with notable power efficiency of 2.8 TOPS/W. The power consumption was measured running ResNet-50 on low resolution video (224 x 224 at 672 fps) at 8-bit precision with a batch size of 1. This is an order of magnitude better than the current market-leading solution for automotive vision inference at the edge.
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| China's Tsinghua Unigroup to build memory fab in Chongqing |
8/30/2019 |
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Under the deal, Tsinghua Unigroup will set up a 12-inch DRAM manufacturing fab in Chongqing's Liangjiang New Area, with construction to kick off by the end of 2019 and official production set for 2021. The group will develop relevant process technology and carry out trial production at its other memory chip plans in China before transferring mature technology to the Chongqing plant after becoming operational.
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| Homomorphic encryption now ready for commercial applications |
8/30/2019 |
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Homomorphic encryption was first discovered in 2009, and ten years on, it is finally ready for initial commercial adoption. Up to now, while processing encrypted data was theoretically possible, it was so computationally intense that it was deemed out of reach for real-world applications. Recent advances have brought it within the realms of usability for the first time.
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| Micron gets green light from Taiwan government to build $2 billion fab. |
8/29/2019 |
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During the 1179th meeting of the Investment Commission of the Ministry of Economic Affairs' today, seven major investment cases were filed and approved. Among the cases approved was the equivalent of NT$66 billion in foreign currency to be remitted from Micron Technology to increase investment in Taiwan-based enterprises such as its subsidiary Micron Memory Taiwan Co., and to engage in electronic component manufacturing,
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| Qualcomm to pair WiFi 6 chips with 5G |
8/29/2019 |
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Both Wi-Fi 6, a new standard expected to fully roll out by 2022, and 5G technology differ from their predecessors in that they are designed to work more closely together, allowing Wi-Fi routers to more seamlessly hand off connections with mobile phones and other devices that use both kinds of networks.
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| GlobalFoundries sued TSMC for patent infringement |
8/28/2019 |
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The complaints alleged that chip manufacturing technologies used by TSMC infringed GlobalFoundries’ 16 patents, and sought to prevent imports of customers’ products containing chips produced with the infringing technologies.
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