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| China wants to build model city - Shenzhen |
9/9/2019 |
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Shenzhen is only 17 miles away from the port of Hong Kong, a key gateway for commerce between China and the west. Shenzhen's proximity to Hong Kong has made it strategically important for China’s ruling clique. Its significance.
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| Foundry business growth see slowing down |
9/6/2019 |
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“TrendForce thus expects the rebound in the semiconductor market during this year’s second half to be significantly weaker compared with the same period of the previous years”.
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| Rambus to buy Verimatrix for portfolio of security IP's |
9/6/2019 |
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As hardware-based security has become mission critical for protecting the SoCs and devices in demanding applications such as AI, Networking, IoT and Automotive, the integrated portfolio of products, which will combine the secure silicon IP and provisioning solutions from both companies, will create a comprehensive silicon-proven security IP offering.
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| When U.S. capitalism and Chinese state capitalism meets |
9/6/2019 |
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Perhaps Chinese workers can out-produce us. Maybe they are better workers. But the future of manufacturing is adding value, not mastering repetitive tasks that will soon be consigned to robots. The future of work is about advanced manufacturing, fixing the robots when they break down, and calibrating them when the assembly line slows.
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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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