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| Semiconductor equipment sales expected to retreat |
4/19/2019 |
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After consecutive record-sales years in 2017 and 2018, SEMI expects the equipment market to come back to earth in 2019 as the end of the memory chip boom puts a damper on new equipment purchases. SEMI forecasts that chip equipment sales will decrease about 14% this year.
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| Qualcomm to set up 5G engineering test center |
4/18/2019 |
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KYEC will rent its existing clean-room site to Qualcomm to house the planned engineering test center and will offer related manpower and R&D resources, while Qualcomm will provide most of high-end testing facilities.
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| The head of Foxconn Technology to run for president of Taiwan |
4/17/2019 |
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Terry Gou said he would make a decision "in a day or two" on a possible presidential bid, according to Taiwan's official Central News Agency. He said that if he decided to run, he would take part in the opposition Nationalist Party primary rather than mount an independent bid.
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| Samsung's EUV setup ready for 5nm production |
4/17/2019 |
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The Korean giant aims to steal some thunder from larger rival TSMC, which is scheduled to give an update on its work on a 5nm node next week. The two are racing to capture a lucrative but shrinking market for leading-edge process technology at a time when it’s becoming more complex and costly to make chips smaller and fasterT
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| Apple Qualcomm settles |
4/17/2019 |
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Apple and Qualcomm announced they have dropped all litigation in a multi-billion-dollar patent licensing dispute that has dragged on for more than two years across courts in China, Germany and the U.S..
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| China spreads influence on Eastern Europe |
4/16/2019 |
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China has already invested billions of dollars in various infrastructure projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Western leaders worry that further investment in the states that are EU members — or those hoping to join — could mean lower environmental and other standards than those in the rest of the bloc.
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| China's auto sales slump for the nineth month |
4/15/2019 |
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It was the ninth straight month of decline but an improvement over the 17.5% contraction in January and February.
Chinese consumers are less willing to make big purchases amid a tariff war with Washington and an economic slowdown.
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| China's export rises despite reduction to the U.S. |
4/15/2019 |
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China's exports rose 14.2% over a year ago to $198.7 billion, recovering from February's 20.8% contraction, customs data showed Friday. Imports fell 7.6% to $166 billion, worsening the previous month's 5.2% decline.
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| 26-m long flex circuit made for aircraft use. |
4/15/2019 |
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Trackwise, a company based in Tewkesbury, U.K., announced that it has shipped what the company claims is the world’s longest multilayer flexible circuit at 26 m (85 ft.). The company said in a press release that the cable was designed for an unmanned solar-powered aircraft.
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| Engineers have suggestion to save 50% memory power on sleep mode |
4/12/2019 |
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“A deep sleep mode means that you can retain the data, but you can shut off the peripheral circuitry, The only power consumption is now the leakage in the bitcells. While dependent on many factors, including the size of the memory, turning off the periphery drops leakage by about 60% or 70%.”
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| TSMC March revenue rebounced, up 30.9% |
4/11/2019 |
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TSMC's consolidated sales for the first quarter of 2019 totaled NT$218.7 billion, down 11.8% on year and 24.5% sequentially, but meeting the company's guidance.
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| Consumer prices up 0.4% with sharp jump in gasoline |
4/11/2019 |
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The Labor Department said Wednesday that the consumer price index rose a healthy 1.9 percent last month from a year ago, a sharp jump from the annual pace of 1.5 percent in February. Inflation has been relatively modest even as the job market has strengthened and wage gains have accelerated over the past several years.
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| Adoptation goes up as fingerprint-on-display prices drop |
4/11/2019 |
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FOD solutions are to become the mainstream technology for smartphone fingerprint recognition in 2022 as penetration rates for optical and ultrasonic FOD solutions are predicted to surpass that of traditional capacitive solutions.
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