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| FTC examining Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm |
1/27/2018 |
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U.S. Federal Trade Commission has made a second request for information on chipmaker Broadcom Ltd’s $103 billion hostile bid for Qualcomm Inc, Broadcom said in a statement on Friday.
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| Toshiba to consider IPO if sale of company falls through |
1/22/2018 |
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Hong Kong-based activist investor, Argyle Street Management Ltd, a hedge fund with $1.2 billion under management, has voiced opposition to the sale (to Bain Group) , saying it was no longer necessary and that the board should consider an IPO instead.
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| EUV is now ready for 7nm process |
1/22/2018 |
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“The main pieces for EUV at 7 nm are in place, and we will see some volume of wafers this year … but photoresist defects are still an order of magnitude too high for 5 nm,”
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| EU sets terms for Qualcomm's take over of NXP |
1/22/2018 |
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The European Commission, said in a statement on Thursday it had identified a number of competition concerns that had led to an in-depth investigation, but was now satisfied with the deal.
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| Texas Instruments to change CEO in June |
1/22/2018 |
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Rich Templeton, who took the helm of the semiconductor company in 2004 and became chairman four years later, is being succeeded as CEO by Brian Crutcher, a 22-year veteran of the company
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| Samsung offers 16Gb GDDR6 DRAM |
1/19/2018 |
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Built in a 10-nanometre process, has double the performance speed of a GDDR5 DRAM and consumes 35 percent less power.
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| Apple is looking to build another campus |
1/18/2018 |
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"The company plans to establish an Apple campus in a new location, which will initially house technical support for customers," Apple said in a statement Wednesday. "The location of this new facility will be announced later in the year."
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| Qualcomm to buyback own stock if NXP acquisition fails |
1/18/2018 |
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>“With tax reform, we are well positioned to complete a large stock buyback that will deliver essentially the same level of accretion to Qualcomm stockholders as if we had closed NXP,” Qualcomm Chief Financial Officer George Davis said.
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| IBM filed patents mixing AI with Cloud |
1/18/2018 |
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Almost half of IBM's 9,043 patents came from "pioneering advancements in AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, blockchain and quantum computing," IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said this latest round of advanced-technology innovation is "aimed at helping our clients create smarter businesses."
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| Storage - The more the merrier |
1/17/2018 |
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It seems everyone has let go of their fear of cloud and hybrid operations as risky propositions. Instead, we've all come to accept the cloud as something that's just done.
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| Gartner predicts semi market to increase 7.5% |
1/17/2018 |
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>“Favourable market conditions for memory sectors that gained momentum in the second half of 2016 prevailed through 2017 and look set to continue in 2018, providing a significant boost to semiconductor revenue,”
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| TSMC sales dropped in 1st quarter |
1/16/2018 |
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The global smartphone market is saturated, TSMC’s sales this year could be affected, as its chips used in smartphones and related devices account for about 50 percent of the company’s total sales.
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| Memory prices to decline gradually in 2018 |
1/16/2018 |
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High-end flash memory chips, which are widely used in smartphones, dropped nearly 5 percent in the fourth quarter - some analysts now expect the industry’s growth rate will fall by more than half this year to 30 percent.
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