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| Samsung lost major 7nm contract to TSMC |
6/12/2017 |
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Samsung Electronics’ reported defeat by its Taiwanese rival in the 7nm chip order comes after it has faced a delay in developing the related fabrication technology.
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| Smartphone manufacturers are rolling 128GB of memory |
6/12/2017 |
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Such move has come in line with an increase in the release of higher-resolution content. Demand for greater memory has also grown as more users favor full-HD movies weighing 5GB apiece and more phones are equipped with high-quality cameras.
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| e-Rubber found its application in robots |
6/12/2017 |
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Toyoda Gosei and ASM will work more closely to accelerate the development of e-Rubber for practical uses in smart devices to be employed in various kinds of next-generation robots.
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| Toshiba to name winning bidder on June 15 |
6/9/2017 |
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Sources told Reuters the choice has narrowed to one bid from U.S. chipmaker Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.O) and U.S. tech fund Silver Lake and another from Toshiba chip partner Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) and Japanese government-related investors.
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| TSMC named Keller as president of U.S. operations |
6/8/2017 |
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As President, Keller is responsible for managing the North America business, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of TSMC and accounted for over 60 percent of TSMC’s 2016 sales of $29.4 billion.
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| Korean manufacturers want to expand on foundry business |
6/8/2017 |
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Last month, Samsung opened a new department under its chip division focusing on the foundry business. SK hynix Inc. also spun off its foundry business last month in order to beef up its competitiveness in the sector.
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| Nvidia positions itsellf in the AI market with HGX |
6/7/2017 |
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"With Google, AWS (Amazon Web Service), Microsoft, Baidu and the lot throwing new deep learning model frameworks over the wall at a quarterly cadence, Nvidia's job is to provide non-denominational developer tools that support all of the frameworks,”
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| IBM's 5nm architecture to extend Moore's Law |
6/6/2017 |
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New 5nm breakthrough to more performance will boost its cognitive computing efforts as well as everybody's efforts toward higher-throughput cloud computing and deep learning, along with lower power and longer battery life for all mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.
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| Western Digital to settle with 19.9% ownership on Toshiba Memoryr |
6/6/2017 |
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Under the new proposal, the U.S. firm — Toshiba’s joint production partner at a chip plant in Mie Prefecture — is aiming to buy Toshiba Memory Corp. in a joint bid with the government-backed Innovation Network Corp. of Japan turnaround fund and the government-owned Development Bank of Japan.
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| EU gets tough on Qalcomm/NXP merger review |
6/6/2017 |
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The EU competition authority's preliminary review of the deal ends on June 9. It can either clear the deal unconditionally or open an investigation lasting up to four months.
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| NAND prices up |
6/5/2017 |
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The NAND contract price went up 20-25% in Q1, reports DRAMeXchange.
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