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| Qualcomm work with Chinese smartphone manufacturer on 5G |
1/30/2018 |
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“Qualcomm Technologies has close relationships within China’s mobile and semiconductor ecosystem, and we’ll continue to work with this ecosystem to drive innovation as we move from the 3G/4G era to the 5G era," said Qualcomm President.
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| Price hike slows for Mobile DRAM |
1/29/2018 |
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Contract prices for mobile DRAM are forecast to rise by only three percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to DRAMeXchange.
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| Intel prospect looks good |
1/29/2018 |
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Intel Corp. gave an upbeat quarterly and annual sales forecast, signaling optimism that demand will persist even as the industry scrambles to fix vulnerabilities in its PC and server chips.
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| Western Digital attends record revenue quarter |
1/29/2018 |
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"We continued our strong financial performance in the December quarter, with nine percent year-over-year revenue growth, driven by each of our major end-market categories and solid execution by our team,"
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| Foundary competition to intensify with China into the game |
1/27/2018 |
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TrendForce estimates that China’s production capacity of 300mm wafer will reach nearly 700,000 pieces per month by the end of 2018, a 42.2% increase from the end of 2017; the revenue from China’s entire wafer fabrication industry is expected to reach RMB 176.7 billion in 2018, an annual growth of 27.12%.
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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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