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| Where can the U.S. stock market go next? |
8/21/2018 |
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Allocations to U.S. stocks jumped 10 percentage points this month to a net 19% overweight, the highest since January 2015. That makes America the most popular equity region for the first time in five years.
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| Streaming TV services grown a remarkable 58% |
8/20/2018 |
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comScore estimates these live TV services will continue to grow in the months ahead, and even forecast that newcomers like Hulu Live and YouTube TV to well exceed a million users each sometime this year.
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| Oversupply drove down NAND prices |
8/20/2018 |
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Average NAND flash contract prices fell between 15% and 20% sequentially in the second quarter, but bit shipments bounced back thanks to a pick-up in demand for high-density products from China-based smartphone vendors.
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| SK Telecom turns to Xilinx FPGA for AI accelerator |
8/20/2018 |
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SKT is using Xilinx's Kintex UltraScale FPGAs to run its automatic speech-recognition (ASR) application to accelerate NUGU, its voice-activated assistant. According to SKT, it has been able to achieve up to five times higher performance in ASR applications when compared to GPUs
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| Job posting implies Apple looking at a health processor |
8/16/2018 |
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Job postings from Apple: “We are looking for sensor ASIC architects to help develop ASICs for new sensors and sensing systems for future Apple products,” one reads. “We have openings for analog as well as digital ASIC architects.”
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| 3 more flaws found on Intel Xeon processor |
8/16/2018 |
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Intel released updates to address the issue and said new updates coupled those released earlier in the year will reduce the risk for users, including personal computer clients and data centers.
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| U.S. productivity growth at 2.9 percent |
8/16/2018 |
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The second-quarter acceleration was accompanied by a much smaller gain of 1.9 percent in the number of hours worked. The combination of stronger output and a smaller increase in hours worked led to the strong increase in productivity.
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| 5G roll out in India to detlay |
8/15/2018 |
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Complete roll-out of 5G in India will be done by 2022. “5G won’t be driven by supply, it’ll be driven by demand and the rest of industry needs to wake up to this.”
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| U.S. government agencies bans Huawei and ZTE |
8/15/2018 |
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The ban was signed into law today by President Trump as part of the Defense Authorization Act and will go into effect over the next two years.The bill covers anything that is a “substantial or essential component of any system,” as well as tech that is used to route or view user data.
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| TSMC achieved 3.9% sales gain regardless of virus incident |
8/14/2018 |
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TSMC disclosed previously a computer virus stalling part of its production earlier in August would impact up to 2% of its third-quarter 2018 revenues. At its most-recent investors meeting, the company estimated third-quarter revenues at between US$8.45 billion and US$8.55 billion.
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| AT&T moved in to wholly own Otter Media |
8/13/2018 |
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Otter Media will become a part of AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit. Tony Goncalves, who was named Otter's chief executive earlier this year, will continue to run the company, reporting to WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey.
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| United Microelectronics (UMC) July sales up 7.4% |
8/13/2018 |
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UMC's consolidated revenues for July 2018 represented a 12.2% on-year increase. Consolidated sales for the first seven months of 2018 totaled NT$90.7 billion, rising 3.4% from a year earlier.
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| Qualcomm to pay $89 million to settle antitrust case in Taiwan |
8/13/2018 |
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In 2017, the commission fined Qualcomm for refusing to sell chips to mobile handset makers that wouldn’t agree to its patent-licensing terms and for cutting iPhone maker Apple Inc a royalty discount in exchange for the exclusive use of Qualcomm’s modem chips in the past.
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