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| New partnership in MRAM developement |
10/18/2017 |
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Spin Transfer Technologies (STT) and capital equipment vendor Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) have entered into a collaborative engineering program to jointly develop process technologies for SRAM- and DRAM-class spin-transfer torque (ST) MRAM devices.
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| SMIC appointed new executives |
10/17/2017 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China, today announced the appointment of Dr. Haijun Zhao and Dr. Liang Mong Song as SMIC Co-CEO and Executive Director.
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| China plans to double its 12 inch capacity in 2018 |
10/17/2017 |
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Shanghai Xinsheng is scheduled to come online at the end of 2017 with monthly capacity of 150,000 12-inch wafers in the first phase, and the monthly capacity will double to 300,000 units by 2020.
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| Samsung Electronics CEO resigned |
10/16/2017 |
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The surprise resignation of Samsung’s chip and display head came as he was expected to take a bigger role following Lee’s arrest in February and the departures of other key executives in the wake of the bribery scandal.
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| DRAM manufacturers stock rises |
10/16/2017 |
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While demand for DRAM was expected to rise 20.6% next year, chipmakers were only planning to add 19.6 percent in capacity globally, a TrendForce report said
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| ON Semi released new image sensors |
10/16/2017 |
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The new parts provide a complete solution with the new image sensor and processing functionality integrated within a low power system-on-chip (SoC) that simplifies and speeds adoption in applications like rear and surround view cameras.
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| ADI to work with imec on IoT devices |
10/13/2017 |
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The move, building on two existing initiatives, is intended to produce devices that are not only low-power, but which also feature largely improved or completely new sensing capabilities.
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| ST to build 2 new 300mm fabs |
10/12/2017 |
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ST has not built a 300mm fab since 2002 when it built Crolles 2 with Motorola and Philips. Motorola (later Freescale) and Philips pulled out of the collaboration in 2007.
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| Kobe Steel accused of altering inspection data |
10/12/2017 |
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Kobe Steel, Japan's third-largest steel maker, has announced that between Sept. 1, 2016 and Aug. 31 of this year it sold aluminum and copper materials using falsified data on such things as the products' strength.
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| Iron Mountain to acquire data centers in London and Singapore |
10/11/2017 |
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This marks Iron Mountain’s first step toward international data center expansion. It expands Iron Mountain’s portfolio, which provides data center services to organizations across all industries that require highly secure, reliable, and compliant data storage and related capabilities.
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| Alexia application development kit now available |
10/11/2017 |
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This is the first far-field linear mic array solution available on the market, the kit has been designed for developers who are looking to integrate Alexa into smart panels, kitchen appliances, and other commercial and industrial electronics.
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| Intel sets up to do AI development in India |
10/11/2017 |
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Intel India has trained 9,500 developers, students and professors across 90 organisations in the past six months in the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI).
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| Proposed TSMC fab to cost $20 billion |
10/10/2017 |
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TSMC is now racing to meet the future demand it anticipates from computers and connected devices in the so-called Internet of Things, from cars to home appliances and voice-activated speakers.
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