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| Aspeed offers server management SoC |
6/11/2019 |
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Aspeed Technology has started delivering in small volume samples of its new baseboard management controller (BMC) chips for servers based on Intel's next-generation Whitley server platform in June, with large-scale sample delivering scheduled to kick off in the fourth quarter.
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| TSMC has a high revenue month of May |
6/11/2019 |
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TSMC has reported consolidated revenues of about NT$80.44 billion for May, up 7.7% sequentially but down 0.7% on year. Revenues for January through May totaled NT$373.84 billion, a decrease of 9.0% compared to the same period in 2018.
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| Wafer fabs likely to hold capital expansion due to trade war |
6/11/2019 |
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Whether vendors can allow buyers to flexibly honor their purchase agreements will affect the development of the silicon wafer industry. If capacity expansions by existing leading vendors and the establishment of new plants by Chinese suppliers can be put on hold, it will be a healthy development for the global silicon wafer industry in the long term.
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| Raytheon and United Technologies to merge |
6/10/2019 |
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Raytheon and United Technologies have a combined market value of nearly $166 billion. Raytheon shareholders will get 2.3348 shares in the new company for each Raytheon share, the firms said.
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| TDK offers miniaturized thin-film power inductor design |
6/10/2019 |
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The low-profile TFM201208ALD power inductor measures 2.0 x 1.25 x 0.8 mm and is available with a rated inductance of 1.0 µH. Owing to its reduced dc resistance of 79 mO, which is 12% lower than that of conventional products, the power inductor achieves low losses,
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| Impinj suied NXP for infringement |
6/10/2019 |
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Impinj alleges that NXP is infringing on 26 patents including a diagnostic system for checking the health of the chips and features that make them more durable and accurate when tracking items as they travel through the supply chain. In addition to the patent infringements, Impinj alleges NXP also infringed on circuit designs that allow the chips to be so small,
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| Analog Devices offers millimeter wave up down convertor for 5G |
6/10/2019 |
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“Millimeter-wave 5G is an emerging technology with great potential,” said Karim Hamed, general manager of Microwave Communications at Analog Devices. “It can be extremely difficult to design these systems from the ground up, balancing system-level challenges in performance, standards, and cost.
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| Job creation and wages hike slows |
6/7/2019 |
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Job creation decelerated strongly in May, with nonfarm payrolls up by just 75,000. The decline was the second in four months that payrolls increased by less than 100,000 as the labor market continues to show signs of weakening. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a gain of 180,000.
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| Marvell works with ARM on new ThunderX server processor |
6/7/2019 |
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This new agreement includes dedicated Arm support for Marvell’s R&D in the server processor technology area for at least three more years. As a result, Marvell can further expand its Arm-based server products and roadmap to enable the next generation of cloud and data centre infrastructure.
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| Trade war to drive DRAM prices down |
6/7/2019 |
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DRAMeXchange noted. impact of trade war on DRAM prices for the second half of 2019 will be substantial despite the period being the traditional peak season.
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| Snapdragon 7cx SoC to power low-cost Windows 10 on ARM laptops |
6/6/2019 |
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Qualcomm's vice president Don McGuire has confirmed the company is working on a new lower-powered version of the Snapdragon chip which will sport the 7cx nomenclature, at least for the time being. Such a chip will provide OEMs with a cheaper slice of silicon for creating more affordable Always Connected PCs.
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| Bill Gates invested $9 million in photonics computing startup |
6/6/2019 |
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Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light. It’s a moonshot and yet, the young company already has a number of high-profile investors willing to bet on the prospect.
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| HP Enterprise promotes "Memory Driven Computing" |
6/5/2019 |
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced The Machine in 2017—a computer equipped with 160 TB of RAM—as part of a push into what they define as "memory-driven computing," an effort to process large quantities of data in memory. Purpose-built computing accelerators are being developed to gain higher performance, though memory-driven computing can be used to accelerate the accelerators.
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| MediaTek goes full throttle on 5G development |
6/5/2019 |
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The mobile SoC specialist is gearing up to be among the dominant chip suppliers in the 5G era. The upcoming solutions include a modem chip for mmWave networks, and SoCs that will work with both sub-6GHz and mmWave frequencies.
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| Semi equipment Book-to-Bill index retreats |
6/5/2019 |
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North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$13.79 billion in billings worldwide in the first quarter of 2019, according to SEMI. The billings figure is 8% lower than US$14.96 billion in the prior quarter, and 19% below US$16.99 billion a year earlier.
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| 3D NAND manufacturers agreesively extended to 128 layers |
6/5/2019 |
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Continued falls in NAND flash prices coupled with rising uncertainty on the demand side have prompted the players to accelerate their technology advancements for cost reasons.. Some major NAND flash chipmakers have delivered samples of their 128-layer chips targeting the first half of 2020 for volume production..
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| Samsung taps on AMD GPU to create a gaming phone |
6/4/2019 |
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Today, Samsung has announced that it will be entering into a “multi-year strategic partnership” with computing giant AMD to develop and manufacture mobile graphics chipsets for Samsung smartphones.
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| A pay raise at this time may not be good for the economy |
6/4/2019 |
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Pay raises are starting to narrow corporate profit margins, posing a threat to earnings and stocks, and to business hiring and investment plans. The trend eventually could temper economic growth, trigger layoffs and even contribute to the next recession,
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| Memory module makers to push niche products for profit |
6/4/2019 |
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Apacer disclosed previously the company will be pursuing profit growth this year by enhancing further its high-margin offerings. Adata Technology will rely on the three niche segments of gaming, industry control, and electric motors to raise its gross margins.
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| Infineon to pickup Cypress for $10 billion |
6/3/2019 |
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Infineon is paying $23.85 per share in cash ($10 billion enterprise value, counting debt) in addition to continuing its dividend through closing. That’s 55% higher than the stock price last week before the news started to leak.
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| Toshiba's XG6-P SSD will be for servers and gamers |
6/3/2019 |
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With over 30% higher sequential and random write speeds and over 15% higher random read speeds than its predecessor, the XG6-P series enables enhanced application performance and data access for high-end workstation PCs and gaming systems, as well as cost-optimized data center and composable infrastructures.
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