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| Apple Watch 3 drove packaging to new height |
12/12/2017 |
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The ASE group is responsible for packaging and testing radio frequency, Wi-Fi and MEMS chips for iPhone and Apple Watch devices, and is expected to score record quarterly revenues in the fourth quarter of 2017, the sources said.
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| Micron suit UMC for leaking DRAM technology to China |
12/12/2017 |
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The sources said Micron has filed a lawsuit with a federal court in the North California District accusing UMC and JHICC of copying its DRAM trade secrets, marking the first time for Micron to extend its legal battle across the Taiwan Straits in safeguarding its DRAM IPs.
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| Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, talked architecture at IEDM |
12/12/2017 |
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Su began her address by saying that it was an honor for her to be speaking at the conference 25 years after receiving an award for best student paper at IEDM in 1992 at the age of 22.
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| Nvidia offers graphic card for AI on desktop |
12/11/2017 |
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The Titan V promises increased performance over its predecessor, the Pascal-based Titan X, while maintaining the same power requirements. The Titan V sports 110 teraflops of raw computing capability, which is 9X that of its predecessor.
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| Toshiba reached agreement to settle dispute with WD |
12/11/2017 |
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The settlement under discussion calls for Western Digital to drop arbitration claims seeking to stop the sale in exchange for allowing it to invest in a new production line for advanced flash memory chips that is slated to start next year
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| MediaTek and Qualcomm to embrace entry level Android Go |
12/11/2017 |
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Android Go is a version of the Android Oreo operating system that’s designed to run on smartphones with either 512MB or 1GB of RAM. By comparison, flagship handsets on the market today use as much as 6GB of RAM.
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| Samsung to hire 1000 "cream-of-the-crop" engineers in India |
12/8/2017 |
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“Samsung is extremely bullish on R&D in India. We have been here for over 22 years. The three R&D centres in India work on several cutting-edge technologies. The India centres not only work on innovation for Indian consumers but also contribute to global products”.
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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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