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| UMC hit record revenues |
11/13/2017 |
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UMC's cumulative 2017 revenues through October totaled NT$126.46 billion, rising 3.3% from a year earlier.
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| Automotive is the fastest growing sector |
11/13/2017 |
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For semiconductor suppliers, this is good news as analog ICs, MCUs, and a great number of sensors are required for many of these automotive systems.
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| ON Semi incubates startups |
11/13/2017 |
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The incubator screens hundreds of startups every year to select a handful that become portfolio companies, getting access to EDA and test tools and services from partners, including a shuttle run at TSMC.
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| Q4 smartphone production to increase 6.3% |
11/10/2017 |
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For this fourth quarter, TrendForce estimates that the global smartphone production volume will reach its peak for 2017 with a total of 425 million, up 6.3% year on year. Additionally, the global total for the entire 2017 is currently estimated at 1.46 billion units.
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| Graphene can produce ultra low power transistors |
11/10/2017 |
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Scientists from the University of York and Roma Tre University claim that ultra-low-power transistors could be built using composite materials featuring monolayers of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC).
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| AMD graphics guru jumped ship |
11/10/2017 |
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Raja M. Koduri will join Intel in December as chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, and as general manager of a new initiative to drive edge computing solutions.
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| Toshiba memory business is good but with challenges |
11/10/2017 |
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The robust results on the back of soaring demand for chips used in smartphones and data center servers underscore the difficulty Toshiba will face in generating substantial earnings once the unit - the world’s No. 2 producer of NAND flash memory semiconductors - is sold.
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| Ford to develope EV with Chinese partner |
11/9/2017 |
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Sales of pure-electric and gasoline-electric hybrids in China rose 50 percent last year over 2015 to 336,000 vehicles, or 40 percent of global demand. U.S. sales totaled 159,620.
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| Uber wants to have flying taxies |
11/9/2017 |
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The company aims to have its first paying passengers in various cities around the world by 2023, though the plan still faces major hurdles.
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| EU push to cut car emmission |
11/9/2017 |
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EU wants to cut emissions of carbon dioxide from cars by 30 percent by 2030, and boost the use of electric vehicles by making them cheaper and easier to charge.
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| US Supreme Court upholds circuit decision for Samsung to pay Apple |
11/8/2017 |
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The justices left in place a 2016 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that upheld a verdict that found South Korea's Samsung Electronics had infringed Apple's patents on several popular features of the California-based company's iPhone.
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| Galaxy Note 9 pilot production to start on Q1 |
11/7/2017 |
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An official from a smartphone parts supplier allegedly told the newspaper: "We will start providing components for a pilot production [of the Galaxy Note 9] in the first quarter next year."
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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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