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| USB Type-C interface gains popularity |
1/1/2018 |
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Global Type-C chip market is very likely to double in 2018, and chip suppliers able to offer total chipset solutions to meet customer requirements for varied product designs will be in a position to cash in on the explosive market demand.
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| Qualcomm name new president |
1/1/2018 |
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Cristiano’s unique mix of business, engineering and operational skills and experience make him ideally suited to continue driving Qualcomm’s technology and leadership positions across mobile, IoT, automotive, edge computing and networking.
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| Apple wants to open its first Saudi store |
12/29/2017 |
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The company is in talks with the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, Reuters sources said on Thursday. A licensing agreement is expected by February ahead of a 2019 store launch.
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| Globalfoundries offers automobile chip platform at Dresden |
12/29/2017 |
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Meanwhile, Globalfoundries's 12-inch Fab 1 in Dresden enjoy a geographic advantage in supplying automotive semiconductor to leading automakers in Germany, including Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes, as well as major auto parts and components suppliers including Continental and Bosch.
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| Yageo caps on supplying chip resistors |
12/29/2017 |
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MLCCs and chip resistors, currently account for 70% of Yageo's total production capacity. Yageo is utilizing the remaining 30% capacity for the manufacture of niche-type components for automotive, IoT, 5G and other industry uses, which yield higher gross margins.
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| Thanks to memory, Micron has a great quarter |
12/28/2017 |
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Micron beat consensus estimates on revenue and on Earnings Per Share. Its forecast is even more impressive. Micron expects revenue of up to $7.2 billion, well-above the $6.21 billion consensus.
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| German ambassador criticized China on internet controls |
12/28/2017 |
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Ambassador Michael Clauss told press that the two governments agreed in 2016 to set up a group to discuss cyber issues but it "has yet to see the light of day." He said requests for a "meaningful dialogue" about Chinese curbs on virtual private networks.
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| Prosecutors appealed and demand 12-year prison term for Samsung heir |
12/28/2017 |
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In August, a lower court sentenced Lee to five years in prison for offering bribes to former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her confidante while Park was in office. Both Lee and prosecutors, who earlier had requested a 12-year prison term, appealed that ruling.
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| Court fine Apple for late to produce suit evidence |
12/27/2017 |
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Apple is being fined $25,000 a day for missing a court-imposed deadline to produce evidence in a government lawsuit that alleges mobile chip supplier Qualcomm has been imposing unfair licensing terms on the makers of smartphones.
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| Molecular memory advanced with 2D material |
12/27/2017 |
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The technology uses electron injection — not to encode the memory as charge, spin, or any ephemeral quantity, but rather to change the crystalline lattice structure of MoTe2 in a reversible process.
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| Famous Apple chip designer migrates to Google |
12/27/2017 |
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Bruno served at Apple for five years before joining Google this month. Bruno has run the silicon competitive analysis group at the Cupertino-based iPhone maker. The group was responsible for making sure Apple stayed ahead of its rivals, 9to5Google reports. He has worked on a series of iPhone chips since 2012.
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| Micron to have GDDR6 production in 2018 |
12/26/2017 |
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Micron is gearing up to transition from the older generation of GDDR5 graphics memory, which is currently in production, to GDDR6, which is coming in the first half of 2018.
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| China wants to be self-sufficient on memory chips |
12/22/2017 |
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YMTC is building a flash fab site in the Wuhan Donghu New Technology Development Zone. Innotron is building a mobile DRAM capability. JHICC is making speciality DRAM for the consumer electronics market.
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| Chinese startup discloses AI processor |
12/22/2017 |
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Horizon Robotics Inc, a Chinese startup backed by chip giant Intel Corp, has unveiled two artificial intelligence-tailored processors to power intelligent driving vehicles and image recognition-enabled smart cameras.
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