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| Slow down economy could lead to early settlement between China and U.S. |
1/3/2019 |
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Conflict is occurring against the backdrop of a slowdown in China and an expected U.S. slump that a prolonged trade war could worsen — a fear that's weighing on financial markets. Yet those very pressures, analysts say, give the two countries a stronger incentive to make peace
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| Car sales decline while EV blooms |
1/2/2019 |
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The positive outlook comes as combined electric vehicle sales in China, the US and Europe grew 65.4 percent in the first three quarters from the same period a year earlier, beating the 44.8 percent increase of last year from 2016.
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| India prepare to step into iPhone production |
1/2/2019 |
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Foxconn will start assembling some of the more recent iPhone X series devices at its plant in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, in southern India. Since Foxconn is currently producing the Xiaomi phones at this factory, the company is plannign a new $356 million iPhone production that will create about 25,000 jobs.
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| 3D image sensor to add another dimension to smartphone |
1/1/2019 |
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The hope is, among phone and 3D sensor manufacturers, that functions like face and gesture recognition which 3D sensors enable, will revive the smartphone market which is thought to have contracted about 3% this year.
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| Flash and DRAM price drop and NVMe adoption highlights Memory Industry |
1/1/2019 |
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The drop in solid state storage prices is the biggest story of the year. While flash is the bigger piece of the storage landscape, there was an equally large drop in DRAM prices as well. 2018 was the year that NVMe entered the mainstream, according to G2M research. They found that NVMe sales doubled in 2018,
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| Amazon to expand Whole Foods market |
12/31/2018 |
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The plans are a part in the series of Amazon's grocery, delivery and pickup expansions to cities across the United States in recent months.
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| China to emphasis battery power storage capability |
12/31/2018 |
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Chinese regulators have approved a $174 million investment in the northwestern province of Gansu for the installation of a 720 MWh lithium-ion grid storage battery. When completed it will be able to store electricity for up to 4 hours, says Bloomberg.
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| Gaming chip prices down on competitions |
12/31/2018 |
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AMD's mid-range chip RX 580 was selling at $249 to $299 on Amazon a month ago, but is now priced at around $189. Meanwhile, Nvidia's high-end graphics card GTX 1070 has seen its selling price continue to slide since February.
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| Qualcomm unfair licensing trial to begin this week |
12/31/2018 |
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Lawyers for the regulatory agency and the company claims that Qualcomm is abusing its strength in the market for smartphone components to force Apple Inc. and others to pay inflated license fees.
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| Analysts see weakness in Samsung's 4th quarter |
12/27/2018 |
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South Korean tech giant is forecast to report an operating profit of 13.9 trillion won (US$12.3 billion) for the October-December period, down 7.6 percent from the 15.1 trillion won reached a year earlier.
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| MediaTek reported third-quarter profit, up 54.2% |
12/27/2018 |
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“MediaTek has been putting a lot of efforts into expanding its business into broader fields such as the internet of things and TV, overall smartphone market fatigue to increase further, it’s necessary that component providers switch into new areas to seek more growth."
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| China pulled ahead of U.S. on wireless network speed |
12/27/2018 |
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Among the five largest countries in the world, China has the fastest mean mobile download speeds of 30.96 Mbps, while the US topped in terms of fastest mean fixed download speeds of 92.77 Mbps. China was second in fixed broadband download speed.
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| Micron reduces Capex by 10% |
12/26/2018 |
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The company said on Tuesday that it would cut $1.25 billion of capital expenses next year, bringing its total expenditures to $9 billion to $9.5 billion and feeding into fears that the semiconductor industry's boom is over.
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