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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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| Qualcomm's purchase of NXP delayed |
10/30/2017 |
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Qualcomm’s $38 billion acquisition of NXP will not happen — as promised — this year. The deal, is likely to slip to “early 2018.”
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| Nvidia talked about AI and deep learning |
10/30/2017 |
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Huang and MOST announced an extensive partnership centered on creating Taiwan's first AI-focused supercomputer at the National Center for High-Performance Computing as a platform for accelerating advanced research.
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| Macronix logged handsome profit |
10/27/2017 |
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Macronix International Co (ÍúºêëŠ×Ó) yesterday posted its strongest quarterly profit in seven years for last quarter, as prices climbed on strong demand for high-density memory chips and supply constraints.
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| Bain put partnership restrictions on Seagate and SK Hynix |
10/27/2017 |
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Seagate pledged not to buy any stake in the unit for 10 years as part of the $18 billion deal. Toshiba has said SK Hynix will for 10 years be prevented from accessing proprietary information belonging to the chip unit.
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| SK Hynix post $2.7 billion record profit |
10/27/2017 |
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SK hynix posted new quarterly records in net profit, operating income and revenue. Net profit came to a record high of 3.05 trillion won (US$2.7 billion).
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| AMD realize first profit in three years |
10/26/2017 |
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The company reported an adjusted 10 cents a share on revenue of $1.64 billion (with revenue up 26 percent from a year ago). Analysts were expecting 8 cents a share on revenue of $1.51 billion in the quarter.
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