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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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| Global foundry industry output to reach US$81.94 billion in 2023 |
10/9/2018 |
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TSMC and other major pure-play foundries will continue expanding fab capacities through 2023, when the top-4 vendors will see their combined capacities reach 67,078,000 8-inch equivalent wafers annually representing a CAGR of 6.8% in the five-year forecast period.
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| Samsung still reaping record profit from memory bloom |
10/8/2018 |
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But sharp price slides for some types of chips have brought an end to a two-year super cycle of tight supply and soaring demand, and analysts expect the July-September quarter will mark a peak in earnings for the South Korean tech giant.
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| TSMC projected to tape out 5nm by April 2019 |
10/8/2018 |
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TSMC taped out its first chip in a process making limited use of extreme ultraviolet lithography and will start risk production in April on a 5-nm node with full EUV.
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| Xilinx offers AI accelerator card |
10/5/2018 |
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According to the company, customers can expect breakthrough performance improvement at low latency when running key data centre applications like real-time machine learning inference as well as video processing, genomics, and data analytics, among others.
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| TSMC ramps 7nm with EUV layers |
10/5/2018 |
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TSMC announced that it taped out a customer chip in an N7+ node that can use EUV on up to four layers. EUV aims to lower costs by reducing the number of masks required for leading-edge designs.
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| New flash production line at SK Hynix |
10/5/2018 |
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The company said the new M15 line in Cheongju, covers some 60,000 square meters and will play a key role in bolstering the competitiveness of South Korea's chip industry as a whole.
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| Winbond breaks ground for it new memory fab. |
10/4/2018 |
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“The investment is the largest scale in the history of the park in Kaohsiung’s Lujhu District, surpassing all capital that has been invested over the past 15 years,”
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| North Korea steals from banks globally |
10/4/2018 |
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North Korean group has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars by infiltrating the computer systems of banks around the world since 2014 through highly sophisticated and destructive attacks that have spanned at least 11 countries.
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