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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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| Drone technology is applied in modern argricultures |
3/19/2019 |
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agricultural drones are a great tool for large operations where growers need to keep tabs on thousands of irrigated acres or among “high-value” crop farmers such as the managers of vineyards and orchards.
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| Cadence offers Verification IP design for USB4 |
3/18/2019 |
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The Cadence VIP for USB4 will enable engineers to develop standard-compliant system-on-chip (SoC) design and to complete functional verification of the design with less effort and greater confidence that the SoC will work as intended..
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| U.S. Judge ruled that Qualcomm owes $1 billion in back payment to Apple |
3/18/2019 |
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Judge Gonzalo Curiel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Thursday ruled that Qualcomm, the world’s biggest supplier of mobile phone chips, was obligated to pay nearly $1 billion in rebate payments to Apple, which for years used Qualcomm’s modem chips to connect iPhones to wireless data networks.
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| Military and Aerospace industry to be stable |
3/18/2019 |
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Defense spending will likely increase in the United States and Europe which will help encourage growth. In addition, increasing aircraft production rates support higher earnings and cash flow.
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| Uber files for IPO |
3/15/2019 |
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Uber reportedly kick off its IPO roadshow next month. As part of its offering, Uber is also expected to reward some of its more active or long-time drivers with a cash award.
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| Semiconductor Industry to see better days in second half of 2019 |
3/15/2019 |
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IC distributors are expected to see demand pick up after the second quarter with revenues set to rebound and grow through the end of 2019, the sources said. Demand for high performance computing devices and 5G related applications will be driving their mid- and long-term revenue growth, the sources added.
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| China's exports fall due to global weak demand |
3/15/2019 |
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Exports to the United States, China's biggest trading partner, fell 14.1 percent from a year earlier to $52.3 billion in the first two months of 2019. China's global exports sank 4.6 percent to $353.2 billion for the two-month period.
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| PC and Tablets shipment to continue its down trend |
3/14/2019 |
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IDC (Framingham, Mass.) predicts that combined shipments of traditional PCs and tablet will decline to 391.1 million units in 2019, down 3.3% compared to 2018. Combined shipments of the devices also declined in 2018, despite growth in the commercial PC market, according to the firm.
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| U.S. wholesale prices up slightly |
3/14/2019 |
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The producer price index — which measures price changes before they reach the consumer — rose 0.1 percent in February, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
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| U.S. durable goods order up 0.4 percent |
3/14/2019 |
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Orders for durable goods rose 0.4 percent in January, led by a 15.9 percent rise in orders for commercial aircraft, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The category that serves as a proxy for business investment rose 0.8 percent after two months of declines. It was the biggest gain since a 1.5 percent July bump.
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| Intel report regains semi revenue lead in Q4 2018 |
3/13/2019 |
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Samsung's five quarters of dominance in the semiconductor revenue charts came to an end in Q4 2018 with Intel grabbing the top spot, claims an IHS Markit report. Intel's semiconductor sales revenue hit $18.4 billion during the quarter, compared to $15.8 billion for Samsung.
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| China set agressive growth target at People's Congress Conference |
3/13/2019 |
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The country's top economic official, set this year's growth target at 6 to 6.5 percent, reflecting determination to shore up a cooling, state-dominated economy and prevent politically dangerous job losses. Slightly below last year's 6.6 percent growth, a three-decade low, it would be among the world's strongest if achieved.
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| U.S. Millitary picked winged space ship design for its space defense system |
3/13/2019 |
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which launched an experimental space plane program in 2013, recently settled on a winged design that would be propelled by a version of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR-22 engine originally used as the main engine for the American space shuttle.
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| Demand for servers could revive free fall DRAM prices |
3/8/2019 |
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DRAM market will remain in an oversupply situation through the first half of second-quarter 2019, said the sources. Nevertheless, demand for servers is expected to start picking up between the end of the second quarter and the third quarter, which may also start lifting DRAM prices.
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