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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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| Survey shows self-driving cars are making steady progress |
10/26/2017 |
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Survey found that traditional automakers and suppliers have been joined by emerging and mature technology companies in the race to fill the streets with driverless cars. However, there remain barriers to these technologies reaching their growth potential and gaining acceptance by the general public.
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| Order for durable manufacturing goods up 2.2% |
10/26/2017 |
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Commerce Department says that the September advance in durable goods followed a 2 percent rise in August and was the sharpest increase since a 6.4 percent jump in June.
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| Apple quietly pulled 256GB iPhone 7 |
10/25/2017 |
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It appears that the company quietly pulled the 256GB iPhone 7 from sale on Sept. 12, the same day it unveiled the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X.
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| ARM core has new architecture for better security |
10/25/2017 |
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ARM has announced the launch of its Platform Security Architecture (PSA), a holistic set of documents and specifications that the company hopes will help shift the economics of security to the advantage of the entire industry.
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| Intel helped on Google Pixel chip development |
10/25/2017 |
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Last week, device repair website iFixit published a teardown of the Pixel 2 XL that showed what the Pixel Visual Core chip actually looks like. The serial number on the chip in a photograph begins with "SR3," like some Intel chips.
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| Apple to have difficult time to meet initial iPhone X quantity |
10/24/2017 |
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Some of the data gathered by Taipei-based KGI Securities research company forecasts that Foxconn will only ship around 25-30 million iPhone X units in Q4 2017. Previously, the company's analyst Ming-chi Kuo said around 30-35 million handsets will be shipped by the end of 2017.
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| Intel heavily invested in AI tech |
10/24/2017 |
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The acquired companies seemingly useful to Intel’s AI ambitions thus far include Altera (2015), Saffron (2015), Nervana (2016), Movidius (2016) and Mobileye (2017). Intel Capital has also fattened its AI portfolio with startups Mighty AI, Data Robot, Lumiata, CognitiveScale, Aeye Inc., Element AI and others.
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| New iMac reported to have AMD GPU |
10/24/2017 |
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The new iMac series adopt GPUs supplied by AMD, with the super workstation-class 27-inch iMac Pro equipped with Radeon Pro Vega 56 GPU and 8GB HBM2 memory or Radeon Pro Vega 64 and 16GB HBM2 memory.
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| Intel believes in future of Big Data |
10/23/2017 |
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“The world is undergoing a data explosion. By 2020, every autonomous vehicle on the road will create 4TB of data per day. A million self-driving cars will create the same amount of data every day as 3 billion people.”
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| 10nm process expected to soar |
10/23/2017 |
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Based on the latest forecast, TSMC would log $3.2 billion from sales of 10nm chips in 2017. The company started 10nm production in the second quarter of this year.
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| China set out to improve quality |
10/23/2017 |
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"Three years ago, we relied chiefly on a price war to crack the market. But as more resources were poured into research and development, we saw a fundamental change."
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| Blooming business at foundries |
10/23/2017 |
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With Taiwan-based IC design houses ramping up wafer starts at their local foundry partners, the foundries will see their fab utilization rates remain high in the fourth quarter.
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| Silicon wafers expected to continue rising in 2018 and 2019 |
10/20/2017 |
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Epitaxial silicon shipments for semiconductor applications (excluding solar) will total 11.5 billion square inches in 2017, up 8 percent from 2016. Shipments are expected to rise to 11.8 billion square inches next year and 12.4 billion square inches in 2019.
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| Challenges in testing the new memories |
10/20/2017 |
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Memory test vendors are contending with next-generation devices, such as 3D NAND flash memories, HBM2 chips, low-power double-data-rate DRAMs, graphics DRAMs, phase-change memories, magnetoresistive RAMs, and resistive RAMs, some of which present new technical challenges to testing with their advanced packaging.
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| IC Insight predicts 22% semi growth |
10/20/2017 |
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For 2017, IC Insights expects a whopping 77% increase in the DRAM ASP, which is forecast to propel the DRAM market to 74% growth this year, the largest growth rate since the 78% DRAM market increase in 1994.
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| Nanya Technology rolls 20nm DRAM |
10/19/2017 |
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NANYA is scheduled to enter mass production of 20nm 8Gb DDR4 chips in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the Taiwan-based DRAM chipmaker.
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| Shell opened first EV charging station |
10/19/2017 |
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Three charging stations are opening Wednesday at locations in London, Surrey and Derby, with seven more expected by the end of the year. It comes only days after Shell agreed to buy electric vehicle charging firm NewMotion.
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