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| ISM’s Customers’ Inventories Index registered lower |
4/6/2018 |
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“Customers’ inventory levels remain too low for the 18th consecutive month and are at their lowest level since July 2011, when the index registered 40.4. This month’s low level, coupled with continued strong expansion in backlogs, indicates strong demand will continue for the foreseeable future in spite of the slowing in new orders expansion,”
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| Samsung becomes the largest U.S. patent holder |
4/5/2018 |
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Samsung is now the largest patent holder in the United States, boasting a portfolio of 75,596 valid patents in the country as of January 1. According to global patent journal IAM,
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| Image sensor designed for low lights |
4/5/2018 |
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ON Semiconductor has added to its range of image sensors for extreme low-light applications such as medical and scientific imaging, and commercial and military applications for high-end surveillance.
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| Intel sold Wind River unit |
4/5/2018 |
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Wind River makes embedded operating systems and other software that keeps aircraft flying and industrial robots humming.
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| DRAM supply continue to be tight |
4/4/2018 |
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On the whole, contract prices of PC DRAM have seen an average increase of around 5% in 1Q18 compared with 4Q17. Nitrogen supply issue at Micron Memory Taiwan may prolong current tight supply in DRAM market, and is expected to push up contract prices of PC DRAM by 3% in 2Q18 compared with 1Q18.
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| Intel to put gamer's processor into laptops |
4/4/2018 |
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Intel is expanding PC gaming industry with new laptops that can provide desktop-like gaming performance and virtual reality on the run. Overall, the 8th Gen Core i9 is 29 percent better in performance compared to the previous generation 7th Gen Core i7.
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| Nvidia's Huang: Let's make alliance but not war |
4/4/2018 |
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Addressing the looming trade war between Washington and Beijing at the conclusion of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose last week, Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang simply said "there cannot be a war".
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| Imagination has a new CEO |
4/4/2018 |
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Currently Chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance Dr. Li is a well-known figure in the semiconductor industry and has over 30 years of industry experience. Recently he was chairman, CEO and president of Spreadtrum Communications and chairman of RDA before becoming Co-President at Tsinghua Unigroup.
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| SK Hynix GDDR6 controller production ready in 3 months |
3/30/2018 |
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SK Hynix’s GDDR6 memory controller is said to feature a bandwidth speed of 16Gbps and it comes in two capacity variants: 8Gb and 16Gb. The improvements that will come with GDDR6 will indeed make it significantly better than the older GDDR5 memory controller – especially in terms of efficiency.
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| 2017 chip growth revised to 21.7% |
3/30/2018 |
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Alongside record industry growth, Intel, which had led the market for 25 years, was supplanted by Samsung as the leading semiconductor supplier in the world."
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| Samsung break grounds to build new NAND fab in XIAN |
3/29/2018 |
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The South Korean tech giant will invest $7 billion in the new line that is expected to be completed next year. It will produce V-NAND memory chips, which are in very high demand from Chinese vendors.
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| What is Intel up to in memory? |
3/28/2018 |
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The company would try to push into non-volatile memory products for storage and -- in the case of 3D XPoint -- a replacement for DRAM in certain data center workloads.
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| Continue to see tight foundary capacity this year |
3/28/2018 |
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Taiwan MCU supply chain sources said the 8-inch wafer fabs in Taiwan and China will see their capacities stay short of demand for a long period amid the rampant increases in market demand for IoT (Internet of Things) chips.
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| Toshiba deal hit roadblock with Chinese regulators |
3/27/2018 |
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The opinions of Chinese customers such as PC manufacturer Lenovo Group and smartphone maker Huawei Technologies will figure heavily into the probe. Bain has apparently been mediating negotiations on matters such as memory supply volumes and sale prices.
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