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| UK based Pleassey has advanced process for LED |
11/7/2017 |
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Plessey is the UK’s only LED maker, and the only LED maker in the world commercially making LEDs on silicon substrates. Plessey insists that this theoretical cost advantage has definitely translated into a lower product cost.
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| Broadcom offers $105 billion bid on Qualcomm |
11/7/2017 |
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Qualcomm is expected to reject the bid as opportunistic and too cheap. And analysts and investors have raised the prospect that a merger of the two companies might be blocked by government regulators on antitrust grounds.
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| Is the DRAM boom to end soon? |
11/6/2017 |
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The rise in DRAM prices will slow down as Samsung Electronics, which accounts for about half of the market, will increase DRAM supply.
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| Apple iPhone sales up 3% |
11/6/2017 |
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Apple sales grew by double digits in the USA, China, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Korea and by more than 30% in Mexico, the Middle East, Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe.
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| In securing the Smart Home |
11/6/2017 |
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Security concerns reach deeper into the home than just the Internet gateway or a home router. They now touch everything connected to that home network, from computers and remote servers all the way to appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators.
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| SK Hynix to fabricate more DRAM in China |
11/6/2017 |
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SK Hynix recently struck a deal with China's city government of Wuxi to expand its DRAM production capacity locally with total investment estimated at US$8.6 billion.
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| Memory supply will be tight into 2018 |
11/3/2017 |
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While mature IC parts and components has been strong since the beginning of 2017, the proliferation of IoT/AR/VR applications, cloud services, drone devices, and smart voice assistant products has worsened the shortages
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| AMS takes NFC into industrial applications |
11/2/2017 |
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AMS has launched a NFC tag IC with industrial-grade quality, intended for high-reliability long term use. It combined with an advanced energy harvesting feature, greatly increases battery life time or even allows battery-less designs.
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| Calls to stop unfair state tax credit to manufacturers |
11/2/2017 |
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"We are struck by how awarding benefits to a select group of businesses harms their competitors in California. We also think the resources consumed by the program are not as focused as they should be on winning economic development competitions with other states."
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| Manufacturing Index continue on growth path |
11/2/2017 |
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U.S. manufacturing expanded in October as the PMI registered 58.7 percent, a decrease of 2.1 percentage points from the September reading of 60.8 percent. This indicates growth in manufacturing for the 14th consecutive month and continues expansion consistent with pre-hurricane levels.
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| Semi sales reach $108 billion in Q3 |
11/1/2017 |
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The semiconductor industry is almost certain to set a sales record this year, with sales potentially topping $400 billion for the first time, thanks largely to tremendous growth in memory revenue amid tight supply.
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| Winbond offers secured flash memories |
11/1/2017 |
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Winbond announced it was meeting challenges with the expansion of its TrustME Secure Flash products portfolio based on the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Device Identifier Composition Engine (DICE) Architecture specification, which defines new security and privacy technologies applicable to systems and components.
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| China firm to invest $2.71 billion to develope 19nm DRAM |
11/1/2017 |
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GigaDevice Semiconductor and Hefei RuiLi Integrated Circuit Manufacture (formerly Hefei ChangXin IC) will team up to develop 19nm DRAM process technology for the production of 12-inch wafers at a total investment of CNY18 billion (US$2.71 billion).
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| Shake-up at Samsung |
11/1/2017 |
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The world’s biggest maker of semiconductors, replaced the leaders of its three main businesses, named CFO Lee Sang-hoon as the likely new board chairman, and said veteran co-CEOs J.K. Shin and Yoon Boo-keun would resign.
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| Samsung's fab expansion might ease tight DRAM supply |
10/31/2017 |
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Samsung is considering expanding its production capacity to increase competition and raise the barrier for market entry. Thus, there is a possibility that the tight supply for DRAM may end sooner than originally anticipated.
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| ASE see packaging buiness shrinked |
10/31/2017 |
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ASE said quarter-on-quarter net profit shrank 19 percent last quarter due to a slower-than-expected pickup in the communications segment.
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| Micron use AI and Big Data to improve yield |
10/31/2017 |
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"To swiftly respond to market needs, many manufacturers are improving quality, yield rates, productivity, and cost through big data analytics. Micron is no exception."
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| Micron use AI and big data to improve yield |
10/31/2017 |
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"To swiftly respond to market needs, many manufacturers are improving quality, yield rates, productivity, and cost through big data analytics. Micron is no exception."
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| A good quarter at Cypress |
10/30/2017 |
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On an adjusted (non-GAAP) basis -- which excludes items like stock-based compensation and acquisition expenses -- net income was $99.0 million, or $0.27 per share, up from $53.5 million, or $0.15 per share in the same year-ago period.
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