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| Rumor WD to build flash memory plant in Japan |
6/5/2017 |
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WD is embroiled in a dispute with business partner Toshiba Corp over plans to sell the Japanese firm's prized semiconductor unit and is arguing that it should be given exclusive negotiating rights.
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| Google: Current leader in AI |
6/2/2017 |
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Google has been slowly injecting AI into many of its products and services and the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has sounded very bullish on the prospects of artificial intelligence in recent public appearances.
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| Mexico preparing for renegotiation of NAFTA |
6/2/2017 |
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The rules dictate how much U.S. content a product assembled in Mexico must have in order to escape tariffs when being imported into the United States. Currently set at 62.5 percent for the auto industry, that number could increase.
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| Micron to invest $2 billion on upgrading Hiroshima DRAM plant |
6/1/2017 |
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Hiroshima plant gears up for research and development on 13-nanometer process technology. It has purchased several pieces of cutting-edge chipmaking equipment at billions of yen each for R&D and is expected to buy many more when starting mass production of the dynamic random-access memory chips.
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| AI to deliver customer service at call centers |
5/30/2017 |
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the system can understand spoken word input from users. When faced with ambiguous questions using general terminology, the AI can seek clarification to correctly understand the intent of the user’s question, leading to optimal answers.
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| Toshiba does not want to fall into Western Digital |
5/29/2017 |
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Toshiba told them it is inclined to choose a U.S.-Japan consortium that includes state-backed turnaround fund Innovation Network Corp. of Japan and the state-owned Development Bank of Japan.
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| GlobalFoundries gets $7.5 million grant to develope 7nm |
5/29/2017 |
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development agency is giving GlobalFoundries $7.5 million. The grant is coming from a $208 million pool of money set aside in the latest state budget for various SUNY Polytechnic Institute programs across the state.
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| TSMC aims to deliver 5nm by 2019 |
5/26/2017 |
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Trial production of 5-nanometer chips are to start in the second quarter of 2019 and mass production in 2020, Wei said, in line with the companyfs aim of upgrading its node technology by one generation every two years.
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| Samsung propose NVMe for Data Centers |
5/26/2017 |
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Data centers can move and analyze data faster through the use of solid-state drives with nonvolatile memory express chips with the PCIe interface, Samsung Semiconductor said NVMe has a number of advantages over DRAM.
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| SoftBank to invest $4 billon on Nvidia |
5/25/2017 |
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SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s plans to become the biggest investor in technology over the next decade, with bets on emerging trends such as artificial intelligence to provide the underpinnings of machine intelligence in everything from data centers to automobiles.
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| WD bid $17.8 billion |
5/25/2017 |
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Western Digital’s plan could prolong antitrust examinations and cause an ill-timed delay for Toshiba, whose survival relies on the sale of the flash memory business.
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| SK Hynix to spin off foundry business |
5/25/2017 |
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All eyes are on the company’s next move as it can improve its status as integrated device manufacturer (IDM) by strengthening the non-memory chip business and seek various ways to reorganize the business by using its subsidiaries.
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