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| Apple is expected to require mass number of 3D sensors |
7/17/2018 |
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Three new iPhone models and two new iPad versions set to be released in late third-quarter 2018 are very likely to incorporate the face ID function, significantly driving up demand for key optical component VCSEL.
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| Google lose chip design guru to Facebook |
7/17/2018 |
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FaceBook hired Shahriar Rabii to be a vice president and its head of silicon. Rabii previously worked at Google, where he helped lead the team in charge of building chips for the company’s devices, including the Pixel smartphone’s custom Visual Core chip.
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| Airbus is on-hold waiting for details on Brexit |
7/16/2018 |
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The pan-European aerospace giant is one of Britain’s biggest manufacturers, employing 14,000 people at 25 sites, including 6,000 at Broughton in north Wales. It also supports more than 100,000 jobs in the wider supply chain and spent £5bn with more than 4,000 UK suppliers last year.
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| SoftBank certifies MediaTek NarrowBand IoT for Japan |
7/16/2018 |
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MediaTek's technology enables IoT devices to work on batteries. As a result of these tests, MediaTek's NB-IoT chipset has been validated for use on the SoftBank network, paving the way for low-power connected devices on Japan's leading wireless network.
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| UMC see boost demand from China |
7/13/2018 |
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UMC's China-based fab expansions, coupled with its takeover of MIFS, will allow UMC to expand its overall production capacity by 1,277,000 8-inch equivalent wafers, or 16.9%, to a total of 8,839,000 units in 2019
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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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