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| Auto sales retreated in April |
5/4/2017 |
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Detroit's "Big Three" — General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler — saw sales declines of 5.8 percent, 7.2 percent and 7 percent, respectively, compared to the same month in 2016.
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| PMI indicates manufacturing growth |
5/4/2017 |
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average PMI for January through April (56.4 percent) corresponds to a 4.1 percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) on an annualized basis. In addition, if the PMI for April (54.8 percent) is annualized, it corresponds to a 3.6 percent increase in real GDP annually.”
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| Semiconductor sales rose 18% |
5/3/2017 |
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Three-month moving average of sales increasing more than 18 percent year-over-year for the first time since October 2010, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) trade group.
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| Foxconn to plan major investment in the U.S. |
5/3/2017 |
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Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and a major Apple Inc (AAPL.O) supplier, is planning a "capital-intensive" investment in the United States, Chairman Terry Gou said as he exited the White House on Friday.
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| PTI wants to be the largest backend house in Japan also |
5/2/2017 |
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Powertech Technology (PTI) will strive to become Japan's largest backend house following its acquisition of Micron Akita and a majority stake in Tera Probe, according to DK Tsai, chairman and CEO for the Taiwan-based company.
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| ST Micro's CEO to remain for another year |
5/2/2017 |
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“I have accepted the proposal to extend my role as president and CEO for one more year and I am fully committed to driving this company forward, with the support of my deputy CEO, Jean-Marc Chery, and a strong executive team,”
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| DRAM market to be tight throughout this year |
5/1/2017 |
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DRAMeXchange maintains the view that DRAM prices will generally stay on an uptrend during the entire 2017. This is mainly attributed to tight supply resulting from the lack of major fab expansion plans and yield issues with leading-edge processes.
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| WD offers 12TB gas filled HDD |
5/1/2017 |
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The benefit of using helium is that it is much less dense than air, which in turn enables the use of thinner disks while still maintaining a stable recording interface.
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| Micron named new CEO |
4/28/2017 |
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Micron Technology, Inc. named former SanDisk CEO and co-inventor of NAND flash Sanjay Mehrotra as its president and chief executive officer, effective May 8. He succeeds Mark Durcan.
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| Will be a tight supply of waffers |
4/28/2017 |
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GlobalWafers anticipated that wafer prices will see larger growth in the second half of 2017 than in the first half, as the ongoing shortage will become more acute in the second half of the year.
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| Micron brags about its integrated global memory operations |
4/27/2017 |
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Micron has four manufacturing sites worldwide, while setting up backend facilities in Xian (China), Taiwan and Singapore, said Allan. The backend site in Taiwan is dedicated to providing wafer-level packaging services for DRAM memory, while that in Singapore is engaged in the backend services of NAND flash memory.
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| Trump picks Canada on trade topics |
4/27/2017 |
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Before sunrise Tuesday in Washington, Trump went on Twitter to declare: "Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this.
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