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| Semiconductor sales rise 20% |
8/6/2018 |
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Growth of more than 20% for the first half of the year is no small achievement, particularly since 2017 semiconductor sales of $412 billion set an all-time high. The most recent WSTS forecast, released in June, calls for chip sales to increase 12.4% this year.
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| Tesla readying its own AI chip for autonomus driving |
8/3/2018 |
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The Tesla computer, otherwise known as “Hardware 3,” it’s a Tesla-built piece of hardware meant to be swapped into the Model S, X and 3 to do all the number crunching required to advance those cars’ self-driving capabilities.
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| Advance sensors are the key to IoT applications |
8/3/2018 |
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3D sensing technology can be well applied to various fields. 3D sensors are now mainly used for facial recognition, replacing touch ID for smartphone unlocking and mobile payment. Besides smartphones, long-range outdoor cameras, short-range VR (virtual reality) glasses, and low-luminance face recognition inside cars.
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| NAND market see oversupply |
8/3/2018 |
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Average selling price of NAND flash is expected to decline by 10 percent in the third quarter and another 10 percent in the fourth quarter.
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| Sign of manufacturing growth slowing |
8/2/2018 |
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Manufacturing expanded in July as the PMI registered 58.1 percent, a decrease of 2.1 percentage points from the June reading of 60.2 percent. This indicates strong growth in manufacturing for the 23rd consecutive month, led by continued expansion in new orders, production and employment.
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| Fed left interest alone for now |
8/2/2018 |
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The Fed has already raised rates two times this year in March and June. It signaled at the June meeting that it expected to raise two more times in 2018. Many analysts believe those hikes will occur in September and December.
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| A new method of 3D printing battery electrodes |
8/1/2018 |
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In normal batteries, 30-50% of the total electrode volume is unutilised. The new method overcomes this issue by using 3D printing where we create a microlattice electrode architecture that allows the efficient transport of lithium through the entire electrode, which also increases the battery charging rates.
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| Demand for Android chip slows down |
8/1/2018 |
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Foundry houses are experiencing a slowdown in orders from Android smartphone chipmakers, who will observe sales performance of new iPhones for a while before launching new smartphone chipset solutions, according to industry sources.
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| GDDR6 found its way into AI and Networking |
8/1/2018 |
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Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that must be responsive to a driver’s actions immediately, while autonomous vehicles need high-performance memory to process the vast amounts of real-time data. Other emerging applications include augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Finally, video is always hungry for memory as 4K gets more widely adopted and 8K nips at its heels.
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| TSMC leads patent filing in Taiwan |
7/31/2018 |
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Data compiled by the office showed that TSMC filed 345 invention patent applications in the past six months, up 5 percent from a year earlier.
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| Custom MMIC offers new LNA/Phase Shifter combo for satellite C-band receiver |
7/30/2018 |
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The LNA, designsted CMD270P3, is suitable for EW and communications receivers where high performance, small size and low power consumption are needed. The CMD174 die is also a GaAs MMIC 5-bit phase shifter that operates from 3 to 6 GHz and provides 0 to 360 degrees of monotonic phase coverage, with a LSB of 11.25 degrees.
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| SK Hynix has extra profit to spend |
7/30/2018 |
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The $121 billion global memory chip industry has enjoyed an unprecedented boom since late 2016, with profits surging to record highs and margins rising above 70 percent thanks to disciplined production after years of consolidation.
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