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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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| 3D image sensor to add another dimension to smartphone |
1/1/2019 |
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The hope is, among phone and 3D sensor manufacturers, that functions like face and gesture recognition which 3D sensors enable, will revive the smartphone market which is thought to have contracted about 3% this year.
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| Flash and DRAM price drop and NVMe adoption highlights Memory Industry |
1/1/2019 |
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The drop in solid state storage prices is the biggest story of the year. While flash is the bigger piece of the storage landscape, there was an equally large drop in DRAM prices as well. 2018 was the year that NVMe entered the mainstream, according to G2M research. They found that NVMe sales doubled in 2018,
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| Amazon to expand Whole Foods market |
12/31/2018 |
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The plans are a part in the series of Amazon's grocery, delivery and pickup expansions to cities across the United States in recent months.
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| China to emphasis battery power storage capability |
12/31/2018 |
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Chinese regulators have approved a $174 million investment in the northwestern province of Gansu for the installation of a 720 MWh lithium-ion grid storage battery. When completed it will be able to store electricity for up to 4 hours, says Bloomberg.
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| Gaming chip prices down on competitions |
12/31/2018 |
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AMD's mid-range chip RX 580 was selling at $249 to $299 on Amazon a month ago, but is now priced at around $189. Meanwhile, Nvidia's high-end graphics card GTX 1070 has seen its selling price continue to slide since February.
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| Qualcomm unfair licensing trial to begin this week |
12/31/2018 |
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Lawyers for the regulatory agency and the company claims that Qualcomm is abusing its strength in the market for smartphone components to force Apple Inc. and others to pay inflated license fees.
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