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| Phison to ship PCIe 3.0 NVMe controllers |
12/8/2017 |
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Phison's strong commitment to R&D investment in collaboration with Kingston to build a wide portfolio of SSD products. Since 2012, Phison has delivered more than 10 SSD controller solutions to Kingston consisting of PATA, SATA, and PCIe.
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| Chip manufacturers are seeking high-voltage MOSFET production supports |
12/7/2017 |
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High-voltage MOSFET chips, is increasingly falling short of demand, prompting leading makers of such chips, including STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Texas Instrument (TI) and NXP, to seek capacity support from IC foundry, packaging and testing houses across the Taiwan Strait.
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| Volkswagen senior manager to get jail term |
12/7/2017 |
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VW used sophisticated software to cheat emissions rules on nearly 600,000 U.S. vehicles. Schmidt led VW's engineering and environmental office in Michigan from 2012 to early 2015.
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| NAND flash market demand to reach 244.1 billion gigabytes next year |
12/6/2017 |
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Under the current situation when the IT industry is growing explosively, the supply is the factor that determines the semiconductor cycle unlike the past when the semiconductor market conditions depended solely on demand volatility caused by business fluctuations. When the forecast by IHS Markit becomes a reality, the market boom is highly likely to be near the close next year.
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| Broadcom norminates 11 to the Qualcomm Board election |
12/6/2017 |
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Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.O) made its first formal move toward a hostile bid to take over Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) on Monday, laying out a slate of 11 nominees it wants to put on the board of the U.S. semiconductor firm.
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| Analysts dispute concern about Samsung and the memory industry |
12/5/2017 |
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"Excessive concerns over the cycle of memory chips in the semiconductor industry were affecting the stock price," Goldman Sachs analyst Daiki Takayama said in the report this week. "We see the current price as an attractive opportunity to buy shares. We found no factors attributing a change in our positive recommendation on Samsung Electronics."
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| DRAM prices up 85% on short supply |
12/5/2017 |
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Prices of the semiconductors in a wide range of digital devices have been on the rise steadily since late 2016. DRAM prices stood at US$3.59 as of end November from just $1.94 at the end of last year.
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| 4DS collaborates with IMEC to develope fast ReRAM |
12/5/2017 |
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4DS Memory Limited announced in June it had successfully tuned its Interface Switching ReRAM cell architecture to storage class memory with read speeds comparable to DRAM without needing speed-limiting error correction.
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| Broadcom delays follow-up bid for Qualcomm |
12/1/2017 |
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Broadcom doesn’t anticipate increasing its $70-a-share offer until closer to Qualcomm’s board meeting in March. Broadcom plans to nominate directors to Qualcomm’s board ahead of a Dec. 8 deadline.
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| New material discovered can lead to better memories |
12/1/2017 |
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Devices tend to store that information in two ways: through electric fields, like a flash drive, or through magnetic fields, like a computer’s spinning hard disk. Each method has advantages and disadvantages. Can you cross-couple these two different ways to store information? Could we use an electric field to change the magnetic properties? Then you can have a low-power, multifunctional device.
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| Samsung introduced 2nd generation 10nm process |
11/30/2017 |
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The SoC, which integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single integrated circuit, will boast far improved performance compared to those produced through first-generation processes.
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| American consumer confidence up |
11/30/2017 |
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>"Consumers are entering the holiday season in very high spirits and foresee the economy expanding at a healthy pace into the early months of 2018,"
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| Manufacturers Alliance forcast good manufacturing business |
11/30/2017 |
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A Strong Turn in Aerospace and Moderate Growth in Capital Goods and Chemicals Propels U.S. Manufacturing, focuses on the manufacturing outlook featuring both improvements and ongoing challenges for the U.S. manufacturing industry.
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| SEMI reports semiconductor equipment manufacturer billings |
11/29/2017 |
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SEMI reports that worldwide billings of North American equipment manufacturers in October 2017 was $2.02 billion. Figure is 1.8 percent lower than the final September 2017 level of $2.05 billion, and is 23.7 percent higher than the October 2016 billings level of $1.63 billion.
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| UMC provides certified military grade memory process for Cypress |
11/29/2017 |
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The next-generation 144-Mbit Quad Data Rate (QDR) II+, 144-Mbit QDR IV and 16-Mbit Asynchronous SRAM devices, manufactured at United Microelectronics' (UMC) Fab 12A in Tainan, Taiwan, were qualified under the QML-V certification for aerospace-grade applications.
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