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| Arm and Xilinx tides up on FPGA development |
10/26/2018 |
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Arm’s partnership with Xilinx opens the flexibility benefits of Arm processors for all developers and simplifies development on a consistent architecture spanning Xilinx’s Spartan, Artix and Zynq portfolios.
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| Traders seen NAND prices continue to fall |
10/25/2018 |
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NAND flash prices have declined by 50% so far this year due mainly to capacity expansions among major suppliers worldwide, and the prices are expected to drop further in 2019, when more capacities are available
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| Tom Cook warns personal data, was being "weaponized" |
10/25/2018 |
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Data protection has become a major political issue worldwide, and European regulators have led the charge in setting new rules for the big internet companies. The EU's new General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, requires companies to change the way they do business in the region.
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| Ways manufacturers can dodge tariff |
10/25/2018 |
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A foreign Company is in a competitive market and has always priced its product such that the reseller can sell at a lower price than the domestic version. Suddenly, the U.S. imposes a 25 percent tariff to take effect in two months.
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| Korean manufacturers to setup EUV process for DRAM |
10/24/2018 |
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Samsung has announced that it will soon incorporate EUV technology into 7nm fabrication process before extending the technology to DRAM production. SK Hynix recently also announced a plan to build a new DRAM plant in Icheon City, South Korea, with the plant to adopt the latest EUV technology now under development by the company.
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| LED prices fall |
10/23/2018 |
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Increased supply and decreased demand arising from seasonality, leading to on-year decreases of 20-30% for the whole year, according to industry sources.
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| ARM cut prices on Cortex-A5 cores |
10/23/2018 |
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Arm says it is offering the lower cost license in response to the developer community requesting easy access to a Linux-capable Arm processor.
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| Renesas offers design tool kit for autonomus driving |
10/22/2018 |
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The company says its new Connected Car Software Development Tools enable out-of-the-box development of connected vehicle applications utilizing cloud services at the edge rather than the traditional approach of simply connecting the vehicle to the cloud.
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| Micron to buy out XPoint JV with Intel |
10/22/2018 |
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The deal terms include payment of about $1.5 billion in cash, as well as taking over Intel’s debt to the venture, which was about $1 billion as of Aug. 30.
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| Mass scaling of graphene material remains a question |
10/19/2018 |
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Commercial applications of the materials are probably at least 10 years away. For 5nm devices, the decision point is probably five or six years away. It will take that much time for the industry to understand the scaling limitations of 2-D materials and find a realistic path to commercialization.
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| Qualcomm wants to go beyond smartphones in China |
10/18/2018 |
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In the past, Qualcomm's collaboration with the Chinese companies was mainly in the mobile phone field. As technology thrives, the collaboration expanded to other emerging areas, such as connected vehicles, Internet of Things, and integrated circuit manufacturing.
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| China eyes on Taiwan chip design telents |
10/18/2018 |
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China-based companies are willing to offer much higher salaries - 3-5 times the annual income offered by their Taiwan-based counterparts - to bring in more talent.
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