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| Korean manufacturers want to expand on foundry business |
6/8/2017 |
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Last month, Samsung opened a new department under its chip division focusing on the foundry business. SK hynix Inc. also spun off its foundry business last month in order to beef up its competitiveness in the sector.
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| Nvidia positions itsellf in the AI market with HGX |
6/7/2017 |
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"With Google, AWS (Amazon Web Service), Microsoft, Baidu and the lot throwing new deep learning model frameworks over the wall at a quarterly cadence, Nvidia's job is to provide non-denominational developer tools that support all of the frameworks,”
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| IBM's 5nm architecture to extend Moore's Law |
6/6/2017 |
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New 5nm breakthrough to more performance will boost its cognitive computing efforts as well as everybody's efforts toward higher-throughput cloud computing and deep learning, along with lower power and longer battery life for all mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.
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| Western Digital to settle with 19.9% ownership on Toshiba Memoryr |
6/6/2017 |
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Under the new proposal, the U.S. firm — Toshiba’s joint production partner at a chip plant in Mie Prefecture — is aiming to buy Toshiba Memory Corp. in a joint bid with the government-backed Innovation Network Corp. of Japan turnaround fund and the government-owned Development Bank of Japan.
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| EU gets tough on Qalcomm/NXP merger review |
6/6/2017 |
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The EU competition authority's preliminary review of the deal ends on June 9. It can either clear the deal unconditionally or open an investigation lasting up to four months.
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| NAND prices up |
6/5/2017 |
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The NAND contract price went up 20-25% in Q1, reports DRAMeXchange.
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| Rumor WD to build flash memory plant in Japan |
6/5/2017 |
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WD is embroiled in a dispute with business partner Toshiba Corp over plans to sell the Japanese firm's prized semiconductor unit and is arguing that it should be given exclusive negotiating rights.
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| Google: Current leader in AI |
6/2/2017 |
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Google has been slowly injecting AI into many of its products and services and the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has sounded very bullish on the prospects of artificial intelligence in recent public appearances.
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| Mexico preparing for renegotiation of NAFTA |
6/2/2017 |
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The rules dictate how much U.S. content a product assembled in Mexico must have in order to escape tariffs when being imported into the United States. Currently set at 62.5 percent for the auto industry, that number could increase.
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| Micron to invest $2 billion on upgrading Hiroshima DRAM plant |
6/1/2017 |
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Hiroshima plant gears up for research and development on 13-nanometer process technology. It has purchased several pieces of cutting-edge chipmaking equipment at billions of yen each for R&D and is expected to buy many more when starting mass production of the dynamic random-access memory chips.
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