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| Phison predicts flash shortage to continue |
9/21/2017 |
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Major chip providers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have recently adjusted upward their prices for eMMC, eMCP and SSD devices by 10-20% to reflect their tight supplies. Meanwhile, Toshiba and Micron Technology have also informed their customers that the supply of their NAND flash chips will be reduced in the third and fourth quarters.
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| China demonstrates trade secret enforcement |
9/21/2017 |
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The four-month campaign will attack theft of foreign trade secrets and violations of patents, copyrights and trademarks, according to a Ministry of Commerce announcement this month. It says the goal is to "increase foreign investment."
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| Eurozone to grow as much as the U.S. this year |
9/21/2017 |
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In a forecast update Wednesday, the OECD is now predicting eurozone growth this year of 2.1 percent. That's 0.3 percentage point more than its previous prediction in June and means the region will match the expected growth rate of the U.S.
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| Intel shows 10nm technology for up coming “Falcon Mesa”. FPGA |
9/20/2017 |
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Since Intel acquired Altera, it seems appropriate that FPGAs would be the perfect fit here. Large-scale FPGAs, due to their regular repeating units, can take advantage of the smaller manufacturing process and still return reasonable yields by disabling individual gate arrays with defects and appropriate binning.
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| Intel has plan to double its value by 2021 |
9/19/2017 |
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Intel’s datacentre business will grow 10% annually till 2021, its memory business will grow 33% annually and its IoT business will grow 13% annually. PC is expected to shrink 1% annually.
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| Toshiba wants to quickly tide up the Bain deal |
9/19/2017 |
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Toshiba Corp. is aiming to finalize a deal to sell its memory chips business to a group led by Bain Capital at a Sept. 20 board meeting, despite opposition from partner Western Digital Corp.
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| Samsung Electronics quarterly to reach new height |
9/18/2017 |
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>"Samsung will record its highest-ever financial results in the third quarter -- an operating profit of 14.5 trillion won on sales of 62 trillion won," Shinhan Investment analyst Choi Do-yeon said.
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| IC Insighs said DRAM market remains volatile |
9/18/2017 |
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according to IC Insights, adding that the average selling price (ASP) for DRAM has more than doubled in just one year. IC Insights' latest forecast indicates the 2017 price per bit of DRAM will register a greater than 40% jump.
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| Semi fab equipment order breaks record |
9/15/2017 |
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Out of the 296 Front End facilities and lines tracked by SEMI, the report shows 30 facilities and lines with over $500 million in fab equipment spending. 2017 fab equipment spending (new and refurbished) is expected to increase by 37 percent, reaching a new annual spending record.
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| Micron stock contiue to benefit from DRAM prices |
9/15/2017 |
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Because of the consolidation of DRAM to three players, the gross profit margin the three are enjoying is higher both in the troughs of memory chip cycles, and at the peaks — an over-arching change he finds favorable.
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| Trump stopped sales of Lattice |
9/15/2017 |
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It was just the fourth time in a quarter century that a U.S. president has ordered a foreign takeover of an American firm stopped on national-security concerns. Trump acted on the recommendation of a multi-agency panel, the White House and the Treasury Department said Wednesday.
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| China is despirate in developing local memory industry |
9/14/2017 |
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CHICA expects to expand its partner portfolio by attracting more memory chipmakers to participate in it, and plans to form its second sub-alliance aimed at the development of China's local DRAM and 3D NAND flash memory sector.
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| European Union is optimistic on economy |
9/14/2017 |
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Addressing lawmakers at the European Parliament, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU is "bouncing back" after a tough decade that's seen much of the 28-country mired in an economic crisis and Britain vote to leave.
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| Producer price index rose |
9/14/2017 |
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Wholesale level rising in August at the fastest pace in four months. Producer price index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach the consumer, rose 0.2 percent last month.
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| Samsung's Z-NAND SSD to run 7 times faster |
9/13/2017 |
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Z-NAND is small in capacity as it is based on a single level cell (SLC). However, Z-NAND has advantages in terms of response speed, power consumption and so on. A Z-SSD has a reading speed about seven times that of solid state drives in general.
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