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| Broadcom acquires CA Technologies |
7/13/2018 |
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The price of the acquisition is $18.9 billion in cash. CA’s shareholders will receive $44.50 per share, a 20 percent premium over the closing price of the company’s stock today.
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| Tesla to build Shanghai factory |
7/12/2018 |
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Tesla said construction would begin in the near future, once official permits are obtained. It said production would begin two to three years after that and eventually increase to 500,000 vehicles annually.
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| Chinese company rolls out X86 server processor licensed from AMD |
7/11/2018 |
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The need for a domestic producer of high-performance server processors has been driven by US export restrictions to China—in 2015, the administration of President Barack Obama blocked a sale of Intel Xeon processors for China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer over concerns that the sale would aid China's nuclear weapons program.
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| SK hynix to build 200nm foundry fab in China |
7/11/2018 |
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Wholly owned subsidiary SK hynix System IC Inc. will build a new production line in the second half of this year in Wuxi, eastern China, along with Wuxi Industrial Development Group, an investment firm run by the regional government.
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| Memory sales to hit $500 billion next year |
7/11/2018 |
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Looking forward, DRAM density will increase at less than half its historic 32% rate. The big questions are whether in the next couple years China will start producing DRAMs, driving prices down, or alternative memory technologies will emerge.
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| Micron to appeal infringement ruling at China court |
7/11/2018 |
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The ruling, is in response to a patent infringement suit filed by Taiwanese foundry UMC, forced Micron to halt sales of Crucial and Ballistix-branded DRAM modules and SSDs and cease operations at its test and assembly facility in China's Xi'an high-tech zone.
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| Airbus to design wagon to bring back Martan soils |
7/10/2018 |
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ESA has granted Airbus a $5.2 million contract to design a concept for a rover that can collect soil samples on the red planet. The space agency has chosen Airbus' team in Stevenage, England, because they're already building the ExoMars rover that's scheduled to head to our neighboring planet in 2021.
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| Realtek post record Q2 revenue |
7/10/2018 |
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Realtek is expected to enjoy a seasonal pick-up in demand for PCs, gaming consoles and networking devices in the second half of 2018, as well as demand for Type-C products. Growing shipments of Wi-Fi and PON chips drove the company's revenue growth in June, according to the watchers.
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| Q3 semi activities hard to predict |
7/10/2018 |
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Order visibility for the quarter remains unclear amid the escalating China-US trade tensions that may undermine the shipment performance of terminal customers in the quarter.
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| Synopsys and Mentor Graphics patent dispute settles |
7/9/2018 |
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The settlement agreement includes a seven-year patent cross-licensing agreement between Synopsys and Mentor. It presumably brings to an end a long-running battle over emulation technology that began between Mentor and EVE SA, a French emulation firm that Synopsys acquired in 2012. As recently as last year, an appeals court upheld a $36 million jury verdict in favor of Mentor in the case.
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| Key leader in China foundry squeezed out |
7/9/2018 |
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Chiu has been identified as a key figure in founding SMIC and assisting the foundry to once become among the world's top-3 pure-play foundries. Chiu worked under SMIC's founder Richard Chang, the founding CEO.
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| Voice-activated smart home devices to gain ground |
7/6/2018 |
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IC designers said that voice interface will become the mainstream human-machine interface, as such interface will serve to integrate major killer applications of cloud services, big data, AI and IoT.
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| Economy is strong showing little signs of tariff war |
7/6/2018 |
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Manufacturing expanded in June as the PMI registered 60.2 percent, an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the May reading of 58.7 percent. This indicates strong growth in manufacturing for the 22nd consecutive month, led by continued expansion in new orders, production and employment.
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| China to hold out on tariff war |
7/6/2018 |
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A government spokesman said Beijing will defend itself if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead Friday with plans to raise duties on $34 billion of Chinese goods in the escalating conflict over technology policy.
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| Samsung approved Cadence for 7nm process |
7/5/2018 |
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The tools were certified for the Process Design Kit (PDK) and foundation library on the 7LPP process and confirmed to meet Samsung Foundry’s accuracy requirements, enabling systems and semiconductor companies to accelerate the delivery of 7LPP designs.
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| Global chip sales up 21% in May |
7/5/2018 |
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"The Americas led the way once again, with sales increasing by more than 30% compared to last year, and sales were up across all major semiconductor product categories on both a year-to-year and month-to-month basis."
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| Memory price increase to end soon |
7/5/2018 |
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“The spot price is showing signs of falling and the NAND flash supply and demand are likely to be balanced in the third quarter to result in no increase in price.”
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