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                        | The case of Internet sales tax comes into focus again | 
                            4/19/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            More than 40 states have asked the Supreme Court to abandon its current sales tax collection rule , saying that as a result of it and the growth of internet shopping, they're losing billions of dollars in tax revenue every year.
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                        | ARM denies involvement on potential Qualcomm bid | 
                            4/17/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            Arm said in a statement provided to CNET that CNBC's report was inaccurate. "There have been no discussions between Arm and Paul Jacobs on any potential acquisition of Qualcomm," Arm said. 
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                        | Apple: No more reliance on Intel chips | 
                            4/16/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            Media sources reported that technology giant Apple is planning to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Macs with its own chips starting in 2020.
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                        | China delays Qualcomm's bid for NXP | 
                            4/16/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            It is understood that the turbulent trade relationship between the United States and China have been prolonging the Chinese regulatory reviews over the two negotiations.
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                        | Consumer prices rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier | 
                            4/13/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices ticked up 0.2 percent in March and 2.1 percent from a year ago. That was the biggest annual increase for core prices since February 2017.
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                        | Nanya hit record revenue again | 
                            4/13/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            Nanya's revenues for March 2018 were also the highest levels since January 2007. A ramp-up of 20nm chip output and rising ASPs led to the positive results.
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                        | Global NAND capacity are rising   | 
                            4/12/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            DRAMeXchange in its January 2018 report already warned of a potential oversupply of NAND flash memory in 2019, as major chip vendors carry out their expansion projects.
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                        |  Adata Technology gives robust revenue report | 
                            4/11/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            Revenue last month jumped to NT$3.25 billion (US$111 million) from NT$2.06 billion in February, with about 68 percent coming from DRAM products, Adata said in a statement.
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                        | 2019 will be the recognition of Optoelectronics | 
                            4/11/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            The new optoelectronic chips are designed to speed up data transmission to and from conventional processor chips in a way that will also reduce energy consumption in chip-to-chip communications by 95 percent and could cut overall energy usages by large data firms by up to 50 percent.
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                        | MediaTek patents 56G SerDes | 
                            4/11/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            MediaTek now offers a comprehensive SerDes portfolio ranging from 10G, 28G, 56G through to 112G available for ASIC designs. MediaTek's ASIC services and portfolio cover a wide range of applications such as enterprise and hyper scale data centers, ultra-high performance networking switches, routers or compute applications as well as 4G and 5G service provider (backhaul) infrastructure, AI/deep-learning applications.
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                        | Hock Tan predicts autonomus network in the future | 
                            4/11/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            embedded intelligence the network will be able to sense internal situations, analyze information, conduct self-learning, adapt to environments and predict what will happen, according to Hock Tan, CEO of Singapore-based Broadcom.
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                        | Snapdragon 670 chip to have 6 cores | 
                            4/10/2018 | 
                     
                    
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                            According to previous reports, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 670 will be a 10nm chip running at a maximum operating frequency of 2.6GHz (2,611MHzz).
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