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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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| Semiconductor sales continue to grow |
10/3/2018 |
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The three-month average of chip sales in August grew to a record $40.16 billion, up 1.7% from July and up 14.9% compared to August 2017, according to the SIA.
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| DRAM prices expected to retreat |
10/2/2018 |
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“DRAM products have begun to see a weak price trend since 3Q18 after the price growth of nine consecutive quarters,"
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| ST Micro FingerTip Touch Screen Controller found in Xiaomi handsets |
10/2/2018 |
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“ST’s industry-proven FingerTip TSC technology enables advanced multi-touch UI on many devices with a single-chip solution, with high and uniform sensitivity on all panels, including curved screen areas and new AMOLED displays, making it perfectly suited for the latest smartphone designs”
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| Intel tunes up Capex spending |
10/2/2018 |
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The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker has added an extra $1 billion to its capital equipment budget this year, increasing output from existing facilities in the U.S., Ireland and Israel.
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| Facebook reports massive data breach |
10/1/2018 |
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The social media giant says it doesn’t know exactly what kind of information has been compromised. However, in an updated statement yesterday, it did admit the hack affected those who use Facebook to log into other accounts.
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| U.S. reached "New NAFTA" with Canada and Mexico |
10/1/2018 |
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the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, is a major step toward completing one of Trump’s signature campaign promises and gives the president a concrete policy win to tout on the campaign trail this fall.
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| Microsoft wants people to switch to Skype 8.0 |
9/28/2018 |
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Microsoft plans to stop supporting the desktop version of Skype 7.0, or Skype Classic as it’s fondly called by dedicated users, on November 1st, while the mobile and tablet versions will be cut off on November 15th.
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