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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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| ASE and SPIL to form joint holding company |
11/29/2017 |
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ASE and SPIL will have meetings in February 2018 to set up a joint holding company next May at the earliest, as they have won all the necessary regulatory approvals after China issued a green light to their proposed merger on November 24.
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| Israel-based Weebit Nano offer a better ReRAM |
11/28/2017 |
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Data retention lifetime extrapolation showed the ability to keep written data for 10 years at above room temperature, he added, and high enough to meet the requirements of market segments such as industrial and automotive.
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| Mobile DRAM market keep growing |
11/28/2017 |
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The global market for mobile DRAM grew 4.3 percent on-quarter to US$6.4 billion during the third quarter, according to the data.
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| Broadcomm up its offer for Qualcomm |
11/28/2017 |
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Broadcom is prepared to raise the value of its offer by including more of its own stock: Quite how much and when such an offer might be put in front of Qualcomm shareholders is not known.
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| Taiwan's industrial output up for 6 consecutive months |
11/27/2017 |
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gThe 18-month upward spiral reflects strong demand from overseas during the electronics industryfs peak season. It also indicates that people are more willing to spend on electronics amid a continuing recovery in the global economy,h
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