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| Samsung found a source of photoresist through an Imec-JSR jv |
8/13/2019 |
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The Japan government has put restrictions on the export of photoresist to Korea as part of its trade war. It is thought that, because the Belgian facility has existed for sometime, it is not subject to Japan’s export restrictions.
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| Broadcom offers $10.7 billion in cash for Symantec |
8/13/2019 |
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he deal has all the hallmarks of Tan’s past acquisitions. A mature but troubled company is acquired. Its sales force, expenses and R&D budgets are significantly cut to focus on a few core products sold often at lower prices to undercut rivals.
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| Diodes to acquire Lite-On Semiconductor |
8/12/2019 |
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At the effective date of the transaction, each share of LSC stock will be converted into the right to receive NT$42.50 in cash, or US$1.37, as of June 30, 2019 without interest. The aggregate consideration will be approximately US$428 million. The price per share reflects a premium of 35% over LSC's 30-day volume-weighted average price.
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| Nasdaq-style tech board opens in Shanghai |
8/12/2019 |
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Of the first 25 companies listed, computer, communications and electronic equipment manufacturers held the lion’s share. They include eight specialty equipment makers covering chip, semiconductor, optical simulation, IoT and smart manufacturing. Six in the group are chip and semiconductor-related companies.
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| Japan re-open photoresist shipment to Korea |
8/9/2019 |
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Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon Thursday confirmed that Tokyo approved a Japanese vendor of photoresist, one of the three products subject to the export controls since July 4, to ship out the product to Korea after finding no risk of military use.
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| AMD use ROME to challenge Intel's server chip dominance |
8/9/2019 |
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Analysts said AMD’s Epyc 7002 series, aka Rome, likely will meet its goal of winning the company at least 10% of classic server sockets by next June, up from its low- to mid-single digit share today. To date, most of the gains AMD has made with its new Zen-based processors have been in desktops and notebooks
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| China showed 5G power at Mobile World Congress, Shanghai |
8/9/2019 |
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Exhibitors were showing user equipment (UEs), connectivity from the big players but also from a lot of emerging small-cell providers, lots of Internet of things (IoT) use-cases, also xR (VR/AR/MR) demonstrating immersive streaming to a group for interactive gaming — all of this 5G-based.
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| Japan’s Toshiba Corp is working hard to rebounce |
8/8/2019 |
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The Japanese conglomerate has been consolidating factories, cutting jobs, revamping the procurement method to compensate for the loss of the prized chip business, sold last year to plug a multi-billion-dollar balance sheet hole left by the collapse of its U.S. nuclear power unit.
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| Samsung put 100-layers V-NAND into production |
8/7/2019 |
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The 256Gb 3-bit V-NAND will be used to make SSDs for enterprise PCs and has been supplied to a global PC maker, the South Korean tech giant said. Samsung only need one etching step for the 100 layers of cells, and said it was the best product in the market in terms of speed, productivity, and power efficiency.
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| Microchip offers serial memory controller |
8/7/2019 |
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The SMC 1000 8x25G enables CPUs and other compute-centric SoCs to utilize four times the memory channels of parallel attached DDR4 DRAM within the same package footprint. The serial memory controllers are able to deliver higher memory bandwidth and media independence to these compute-intensive platforms with ultra-low latency.
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| 5G to greatly benefit Enterprises |
8/7/2019 |
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According to Digital Trends, 5G will have much deeper benefits than simply what appears on the screen. Public infrastructure will be able to easily co-opt the technology and use it to pre-empt flooding, improve surveillance, and enhance health care through things like augmented reality (AR) facilitated physical therapy and precision surgery.
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| Infineon offers LED driver with constant current flyback circuit |
8/6/2019 |
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The XDPL8210 offers much improved functional performance for efficient designs as well as low bill-of-material (BOM) for small system cost and high flexibility. It also offers improved reliability for a long driver lifetime. For advanced products, the built-in features enable much faster design cycles..
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| TSMC and AU Optronics are top filer of patents |
8/6/2019 |
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The world’s leading contract chipmaker filed 429 applications, an increase of 24 percent from a year earlier, while China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd filed 408, a 92 percent increase, the office said. Flat-panel maker AU Optronics Corp (AUO,) was second among local firms with 318 applications, up 30 percent, while IC designer MediaTek Inc and PC maker Acer Inc followed with 163 and 162, down 8 percent and 1 percent respectively,
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| Researchers created light sources that can evolve into quantum computer |
8/6/2019 |
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Quantum light sources leading to quantum sensors and transistors. While these are both still very much in the research phase, it’s worth highlighting these pieces of research to see where we could potentially address the needs of high-performance computing in many applications, including artificial intelligence (AI).
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| New low cost transceiver chip goes beyond 100 GHz |
8/5/2019 |
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frequencies are far higher than anything considered for 5G cellular communications, meriting the researchers' description of the device as "beyond 5G." Their ultimate goal is more ambitious than merely going beyond 5G; it's to create a technological path that will enable wireless systems to compete with fiber optics.
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| Qualcomm predicts 5G Smartphone by 2020 |
8/5/2019 |
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lots of services were going to switch on and many OEMs were going to ship handsets in just a few months. The reality is only 1% of the smartphones that ship this year will support 5G, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.
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