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| China agreed to seek fair trade rules with Europe |
3/28/2019 |
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European countries seek to boost relations with China while also putting pressure over its business practices —amid trade tensions between the United States and both China and the European Union.
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| U.S. consumer confidence down in March |
3/28/2019 |
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The index, covering through March 14, measures consumers' assessment of current economic conditions and their expectations for the next six months. Both declined in March.
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| AMD takes advantage of Inel processor shortage |
3/27/2019 |
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A shortage of Intel processors that began last year — particularly at the higher end of the market — has constrained PC OEMs and prompted several of them to introduce systems based on AMD processors. Intel CEO Bob Swan said in January that the processor shortage could last into the second half of 2019.
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| Congress is gathering momentum to approve the proposed New NAFTA |
3/27/2019 |
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President Donald Trump will meet with GOP lawmakers Tuesday to try to kick-start the process for rounding up votes on Capitol Hill. Supporters in Congress and business groups say they have a narrow window to push it through, given that lawmakers tend to avoid tough trade votes during election season.
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| Semiconductor equipment and tools sales retreated |
3/26/2019 |
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After two years of benefiting from massive capital spending by chipmakers — especially memory companies — fab tool vendors are finding it impossible to keep pace with previous sales levels as semiconductor industry growth has sputtered.
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| Economists see business to slow down |
3/26/2019 |
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Economists collectively project that growth, as measured by the gross domestic product, will reach a modest 2.4 this year and just 2 percent in 2020. Among the key factors in their dimmer assessment are a global slowdown and the ongoing trade conflicts between the Trump administration and several major trading partners.
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| Smartphone interface goes beyond touch screen |
3/25/2019 |
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The two latest trends in HMI technologies are voice activation and touchless or gesture control. Voice-controlled products received a lot of attention at Embedded World in Nuremberg; a prominent example was NXP Semiconductor’s new microcontroller featuring integrated Alexa Voice Service (AVS) capability, touchless control went almost unnoticed at MWC Barcelona, but it is equally being pursued aggressively by key players.
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| New military aircraft design is “attritable” |
3/25/2019 |
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For military purposes, “attritable” is defined as a design trait that trades reliability and maintenance for low-cost, reusable and eventually expendable weapons. The approach is akin to the destroyer escorts used by the U.S. Navy in World War II to defend heavily-armored capital ships and convoys.
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| PCIe SSD market to be on-par with SATA SSD by year end |
3/22/2019 |
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Market sources said that unit price for 512GB PCIe SSD has fallen by11% sequentially to US$55 in the first quarter of 2019, compared to a corresponding price drop of 9% for SATA SSD, with price gap between the two types of SSD continuing to narrow from 30% seen in 2018.
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| Adata reports first loss in 3 years |
3/21/2019 |
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The memory module supplier reported losses of NT$178.97 million (US$5.8 million) for last year, reversing net profits of NT$1.86 billion in 2017
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| Italy to join China's Belt and Road initiative |
3/21/2019 |
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Italy's signature would be considered a major legitimation of the project that envisions overland and maritime routes connecting China with Europe. A White House official has warned Italy against joining, calling it a Chinese "vanity project."
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| Fed projects fewer rate hides |
3/21/2019 |
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The Fed is all but sure to keep its key short-term rate in a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent, still low by historical standards. And most analysts think the policymakers will scale back their projection of rate hikes this year from two to one or perhaps even none.
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| Asia, with China, beats the world in patent filing |
3/21/2019 |
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Growth in international patent applications from Asia was paced by strong increases from China, India, and South Korea, according to the UN agency, known as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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| Large number of 300mm fab to be online by year end |
3/19/2019 |
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With nine new 300mm wafer fabs scheduled to open in 2019, the worldwide number of operational 300mm wafer fabs is expected to climb to 121 this year and grow to a total of 138 fabs at the end of 2023.
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| Trump calls on GM's CEO to reopen Ohio Plant |
3/19/2019 |
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Trump's arm-twisting came in a series of separate tweets on Saturday and Sunday . He capped his weekend rant against the GM with a tweet disclosing that he had vented his frustrations during a conversation with the company's CEO, Mary Barra.
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