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| Smartphone intro season drive memory prices high |
8/4/2017 |
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DRAM memory prices rose 3% on the month to about $3.10 for the standard 4Gb DDR3. NAND flash memory delivery prices for manufacturers in July stood at around $3.50, up 13% from a month earlier.
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| Shanghai Huahong to build 12 inch plant in Wuxi |
8/4/2017 |
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Eight-inch foundry Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing (HHGrace) and 12-inch foundry Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) are under the Huahong group. HHGrace currently runs three 8-inch fabs.
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| Toshiba to build new memory fab outside of WD joint-venture |
8/4/2017 |
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Toshiba, which owns the land, buildings and the production know-how at the factory, has split investments in production equipment with SanDisk Corp. since the joint supply venture started in 2004. Western Digital acquired SanDisk last year.
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| Infineon to join supply chian for Tesla Model 3 |
8/3/2017 |
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Infineon, which supplies chips to control the batteries and motors in eight out of 10 of the world's top selling electric vehicles, confirmed its parts would go into the Model 3, which is now ramping up for volume production in 2018.
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| Manufacturing sector continue to grow |
8/3/2017 |
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Manufacturing expanded in July as the PMI registered 56.3 percent, a decrease of 1.5 percentage points from the June reading of 57.8 percent. This indicates growth in manufacturing for the 11th consecutive month and is the fourth highest reading in the last 12 months.
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| Xiaomi Obtained $1 billion loan |
7/31/2017 |
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18 banks across Europe, the Middle East, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other parts of China have contributed to raise the money. "Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley served as joint global coordinator.
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| Motorola to integrate AI with police cameras |
7/31/2017 |
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The partnership will see Neurala integrate its AI capabilities with Motorola's software and cameras, including its Si500 body-worn camera, to create intelligent cameras that can learn “at the edge” and automatically search for persons or objects of interest.
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| Samsung officially taken the crown from Intel |
7/31/2017 |
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The rise is the result of the South Korean tech giant's successful developed next-generation technologies for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and NAND flash memory.
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| 3D QLC NAND can be a memory game changer |
7/28/2017 |
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QLC flash works with existing 3D technology, essentially doubling the available storage. Western Digital and Toshiba have already announced their QLC BiCS flash-memory chips.
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| Great business with ST time-of-flight sensor |
7/28/2017 |
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ToF sensor technology is used in proximity and ranging sensors for smartphones. ST’s cumulative shipments for its FlightSense ToF technology have reached 300 million, and they are already in more than 80 smartphone models from 15 OEMs.
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| City of Shanghai set aside $7.4 billion to invest in chip industry |
7/28/2017 |
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The fund will provide CNY30 billion to support the development of the local manufacturing sector, CNY10 billion to help local fabless firms expand via acquisitions, and another CNY10 billion to foster the development of the local equipment and materials sector.
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| Foxconn to put $10 billion display plant in Wisconsin |
7/28/2017 |
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The deal initially includes a 20 million square foot Foxconn campus but could ultimately create up to 13,000 Foxconn and 22,000 indirect jobs. The Foxconn jobs will have an average annual salary of $53,000 plus benefits.
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