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| Korean manufacturers to setup EUV process for DRAM |
10/24/2018 |
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Samsung has announced that it will soon incorporate EUV technology into 7nm fabrication process before extending the technology to DRAM production. SK Hynix recently also announced a plan to build a new DRAM plant in Icheon City, South Korea, with the plant to adopt the latest EUV technology now under development by the company.
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| LED prices fall |
10/23/2018 |
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Increased supply and decreased demand arising from seasonality, leading to on-year decreases of 20-30% for the whole year, according to industry sources.
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| ARM cut prices on Cortex-A5 cores |
10/23/2018 |
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Arm says it is offering the lower cost license in response to the developer community requesting easy access to a Linux-capable Arm processor.
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| Renesas offers design tool kit for autonomus driving |
10/22/2018 |
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The company says its new Connected Car Software Development Tools enable out-of-the-box development of connected vehicle applications utilizing cloud services at the edge rather than the traditional approach of simply connecting the vehicle to the cloud.
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| Micron to buy out XPoint JV with Intel |
10/22/2018 |
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The deal terms include payment of about $1.5 billion in cash, as well as taking over Intel’s debt to the venture, which was about $1 billion as of Aug. 30.
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| Mass scaling of graphene material remains a question |
10/19/2018 |
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Commercial applications of the materials are probably at least 10 years away. For 5nm devices, the decision point is probably five or six years away. It will take that much time for the industry to understand the scaling limitations of 2-D materials and find a realistic path to commercialization.
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| Qualcomm wants to go beyond smartphones in China |
10/18/2018 |
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In the past, Qualcomm's collaboration with the Chinese companies was mainly in the mobile phone field. As technology thrives, the collaboration expanded to other emerging areas, such as connected vehicles, Internet of Things, and integrated circuit manufacturing.
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| China eyes on Taiwan chip design telents |
10/18/2018 |
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China-based companies are willing to offer much higher salaries - 3-5 times the annual income offered by their Taiwan-based counterparts - to bring in more talent.
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| Netflix gains 7 million new subscribers |
10/17/2018 |
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Netflix shares, already up about 78 percent so far this year, jumped 14 percent to $394.25 in after-hours trading, and boosted other high-tech stocks.
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| Qualcomm offers “60GHz Wi-Fi" on chip |
10/17/2018 |
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Qualcomm is referring to its latest chipsets as part of its “60GHz Wi-Fi portfolio,” but the technology is also known as 802.11ay and WiGig.
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| Kingston crown top SSD seller through channel market |
10/17/2018 |
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Total annual SSD shipments from all memory module makers grew by 2-3% YoY for the year. Branded NAND Flash manufacturers jointly accounted for 40% of the global SSD shipments for 2017, while the other 60% was contributed by memory module makers.
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