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| Semiconductor industry heading for a slow down |
1/9/2019 |
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Gartner forecasts chip revenue growth will slow to 2.6% this year. It expects a bounce back to 8.1% growth in 2020, followed by a 1.8% contraction in 2021 for an average of 5.6% growth in 2017-2022.
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| China trade talk restarted |
1/9/2019 |
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Chinese growth fell to a post-global crisis low of 6.5 percent in the quarter ending in September. Auto sales tumbled 16 percent in November over a year earlier. Weak real estate sales are forcing developers to cut prices.The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter, and unemployment is at a five-decade low. But surveys show consumer confidence is weakening.
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| City of Shenzhen to turn all taxi fleets green |
1/9/2019 |
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Shenzhen in southern China announced at the start of this year that 99 percent of the 21,689 taxis operating in the city were electric. Last year, it still had 7,500 gasoline-powered taxis on the roads.
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| Six BSAF engineers arrested for selling company technology to the Chinese |
1/9/2019 |
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One current and five former BASF engineers took a bribe of more than 40 million yuan ($5.8 million). Jianghua used their information to help build a new factory, according to Criminal Investigation Bureau official Lu Sung-hao. Lu added that the transfer involved the exchange of proprietary technology for the money.
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| NAND prices dropped 60% over 2018 |
1/8/2019 |
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In 2018, the NAND flash market reversed a tight supply scenario seen in 2017, with prices falling by over 60% to only US$0.08 per GB by the end of the year, due mainly to makers ramping up shipments of 64-layer 3D TLC (triple-level cell) NAND flash memory products and racing to roll out new-generation chips with larger storage capacities.
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| Foxconn to build high end iPhones in India |
1/7/2019 |
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Apple is expected to assemble top-end iPhones in India as early as 2019. This would be the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the country. Importantly, Foxconn will be assembling the most expensive models, such as devices in the flagship iPhone X family, the source said.
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| LED market slows on oversupply |
1/4/2019 |
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The oversupply of LED chips has prompted some China-based makers, mostly second-tier ones, to delay the start of using MOCVD tools they had acquired in 2018 or earlier, CSA said. These new tools would add total monthly capacity of about two million wafers,
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| Long term outlook still excellent for memory industry |
1/3/2019 |
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Long-term prospect of the memmory market remains bright. Major memory chip vendors will still further enhance their memory chip portfolios to include magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) chips. Although the NVM technology is not ready for mass production, it is able to deliver 20ns in read and write speeds beating the performance of DRAM. The prospects for the new technology is promising.
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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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