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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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| Micron feels possitive on long term memory market |
4/10/2019 |
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Emerging technologies and applications, such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous driving, 5G and machine learning, will be driving the memory-chip market growth for as long as 10 to 20 years,
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| Semi sales continue to retreat in February |
4/10/2019 |
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The three-month average of semiconductor sales slipped to $32.9 billion in February, down 7.3% compared to January and down 10.6% compared to February 2018, according to the WSTS. February's decline was steeper than the industry experienced in January, when the three-month average fell by 7.2% sequentially and 5.7% year-over-year.
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| Infineon to expand research site in Austria |
4/9/2019 |
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DICE (Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering) has broken ground in Linz for a new facility.The new building, which is due to be completed in 2020, will provide room for 400 employees. The existing site currently employs 180 people working for the development center. Its main focus is on 77 GHz radar chips for driver assistance systems.
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| First data distribution platform certified for Avionics applications |
4/9/2019 |
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The Open Group FACE consortium announced on March 27. The conformance certification specifically applies to the “edge computing” vendor’s Java programing language application programming interface (API). The company’s data distribution service dubbed Vortex also supports C++.
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