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| Denmark shiper said: cyber attack costs them $200 to $300 millions |
8/17/2017 |
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"In the last week of the quarter we were hit by a cyber-attack, which mainly impacted Maersk Line, APM Terminals and Damco. Business volumes were negatively affected for a couple of weeks in July. The businesses "were significantly affected," but there was "no data breach or data. loss."
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| Japan sets model for automated manufacturing |
8/17/2017 |
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The debate over machines snatching jobs from people is muted in Japan, where birth rates have been sinking for decades, raising fears of a labor shortage. It would be hard to find a culture that celebrates robots more, evident in the popularity of companion robots for consumers.
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| With memory prices and profit up it also creates shortage of telents |
8/16/2017 |
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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are looking to hire experienced workers, but also high school graduates. On the company’s recruitment website, Samsung Electronics recently posted a hiring notice for experienced workers to join the company’s memory chip businesses at its device solution department.
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| ChipMOS finds market on display driver packaging |
8/15/2017 |
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Customers are benefiting from a recovery in demand for small displays used in smartphones, as most handset vendors have completed new designs by adding extra features, such as slim-barrel screens, or OLED displays.
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| China appoints provincial government to watch over Apple cloud center |
8/15/2017 |
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China has started to police the Internet more closely and introduced a new cyber security law on June 1 that imposes tougher controls over data than in Europe and the United States, including mandating that companies store all data within China and pass security reviews.
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| DRAM Q3 contract prices up |
8/15/2017 |
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Contract prices for PC DRAM modules rose nearly 40% sequentially to US$24 in the first quarter of 2017, and grew another 10% to US$27 in the second quarter. Prices for July alone increased 4.6% on month.
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| Toshiba's preferred bidder might have on time cash problem |
8/15/2017 |
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Toshiba Corp.’s talks to sell its chips business to a consortium led by Bain Capital hit an impasse over the timing of payments for the business and governance issues, casting doubt on the company’s ability to complete a deal quickly.
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| Using NFC on your phone as smartkey for your car |
8/14/2017 |
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To prevent the risk of smartkey hacking, South Korean automotive supplier Hyundai Mobis has developed an integrated smartkey system where a user installs an app on an NFC-supported smartphone and utilises it as a smartkey for their vehicle.
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| TSMC to spend $3.15 billion on new capacity |
8/14/2017 |
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TSMC recently decided to make a new capital investment of US$3.153 billion in order to increase its production capacity. US$528 million is scheduled to be spent on the construction of new manufacturing facilities and the rest goes to facility expansion and renovation.
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| Toshiba reconsidering Foxconn and WD |
8/14/2017 |
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On Thursday, Toshiba Chief Executive Satoshi Tsunakawa revised description, saying: "In addition to the (Japanese) consortium, we are also in talks with Western Digital and Hon Hai" Precision Industry Co.,
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| How much does Wisconsin give up to lure Foxconn? |
8/11/2017 |
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Wisconsin State Assembly Republicans planned to take the first votes on the package next week, with a committee vote set for Tuesday and a full floor session scheduled for Thursday.
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| U.S. productivity rises |
8/11/2017 |
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Productivity grew at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the April-June quarter, slightly better than a scant 0.1 percent rate of increase in the first quarter, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
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| Raw wafer supplies are tight but no shortage |
8/11/2017 |
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GlobalWafers expects the supply crunch to extend into the next two years due to limited new supply, shrugging off concerns over a potential supply glut due to SUMCOfs new fab.
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| Everspin announced Gbit MRAM |
8/9/2017 |
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Everspin hopes its products find sockets replacing DRAM in solid state drives and flash-storage arrays as a non-volatile buffer and write cache.
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