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| Netflix gains 7 million new subscribers |
10/17/2018 |
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Netflix shares, already up about 78 percent so far this year, jumped 14 percent to $394.25 in after-hours trading, and boosted other high-tech stocks.
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| Qualcomm offers “60GHz Wi-Fi" on chip |
10/17/2018 |
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Qualcomm is referring to its latest chipsets as part of its “60GHz Wi-Fi portfolio,” but the technology is also known as 802.11ay and WiGig.
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| Kingston crown top SSD seller through channel market |
10/17/2018 |
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Total annual SSD shipments from all memory module makers grew by 2-3% YoY for the year. Branded NAND Flash manufacturers jointly accounted for 40% of the global SSD shipments for 2017, while the other 60% was contributed by memory module makers.
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| 3.3-inch Palm aims to be "phone" for your phone |
10/15/2018 |
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Palm is the latest retro brand, alongside BlackBerry and Nokia, to hitch a ride with Android in the hopes of making a comeback. It's most associated with the Palm Pilot, Palm Treo and Palm Pre. It resurrects that venerable gadget brand that popularized the concept of personal digital assistants in the days before the iPhone.
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| Google aims at total carbon-free energy |
10/15/2018 |
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They're now measuring how the hourly power use for each data center lines up with the hourly carbon-free supply in a given region (which bounces around due to the variability of renewables).
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| Micron to invest $100 million in AI startup |
10/12/2018 |
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Company believes it can ultimately sell more memory chips by expanding its involvement in artificial intelligence because the field deals with huge amounts of data that need to be stored on its products.
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| 23 foreign Tech companies signed up to invest in Taiwan |
10/11/2018 |
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Taiwan has been running an industrial innovation program focusing on its Asia Silicon Valley Development plan, smart machinery, green energy, biotechnology, medical care, national defense, agriculture and circular economy since 2016.
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| Google appeals EU court verdict |
10/11/2018 |
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The EU's executive Commission issued the fine in July after it found Google forced smartphone makers using Android to install the company's search and browser apps. The company also paid big phone makers to exclusively pre-install the Google Search app.
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| TSMC third-quarter revenues up 11.6% |
10/10/2018 |
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Market watchers have credited TSMC's better-than-expected revenues in the third quarter to a continued depreciation of the NT dollar, rather than robust chip orders.
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| Intel unveils 9th Gen processor touted as "best gaming processor in the world" |
10/10/2018 |
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The 9th Gen K-Series chips, including the Intel Core i9 9900K, will run at 5 gigahertz when overclocked from the base speed of 3.6 gigahertz. The company tested the processor against the competition (Advanced Micro Devices’ Threadripper processors) and can claim, “The results are absolutely clear. It’s the best gaming processor in the world, period.”
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