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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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| Automotive electronic drives need for NOR memory |
7/3/2018 |
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NOR flash is finding new opportunities in application areas that need fast, non-volatile memory, including communications, industrial and automotive. The latter, of course, is getting a lot of attention thanks to autonomous vehicle development.
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| NASA tests quiet supersonic technology |
7/3/2018 |
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After the flight, "at least" 500 local volunteers will provide feedback on what they heard, while audio sensors will provide more definitive noise readings.
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| Comcast suffered a nationwide outage |
7/3/2018 |
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“We identified 2 unrelated fiber cuts to our network backbone providers. Our engineers are restoring services to business & residential internet, tv & voice customers. Apologies to those affected,”
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| Southwest Airlines partners with Lyft |
7/3/2018 |
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Information for requesting a ride with Lyft should appear in the airline’s mobile app within four hours of a flight that a customer may have booked on Southwest. The messaging on the app will encourage Southwest passengers to consider Lyft rideshare service to or from the airport.
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| IoT chipsets to latch with 5G |
7/2/2018 |
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Since 5G communication technologies can integrate all communication products, applications and services, chipmakers must build reciprocal cooperation ties with all the ecosystem partners including telecom operators, infrastructure equipment suppliers, terminal brand vendors, ODMs, software and services providers if they want to better tap the market for 5G chipset solutions.
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| Global semiconductor equipment sales up 19% |
6/29/2018 |
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Global billings among North American semiconductor equipment vendors increased by 19 percent in May, continuing an impressive run that has seen them increase on a year-over-year basis for 20 consecutive months.
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| Wafer demand for ‘More than Moore’ (MtM) devices to grpw 10% |
6/29/2018 |
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Yole claims that device scaling and cost reduction will no longer continue on the path followed for the past few decades. Instead, semiconductor companies are seeking solutions that bridge the gap between cost and performance, whilst adding increased functionality through integration.
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| Server memory supply to improve in Q3 |
6/28/2018 |
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Memory price rally will start to slow down in the third quarter, said DRAMeXchange, adding that the current tight supply may ease in the second half of the year.
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| Where does Xilinx fit in a Daimler automotive system? |
6/28/2018 |
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“ASICs are nice, but before you lock down your instruction sets, you are going to try lots of variations. FPGAs accommodate changes on the fly, so you can tweak your instruction sets and try new things.”
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