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| Blackout affected manufacturers in South Taiwan |
4/17/2017 |
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Temporary power failure was caused by an unnamed manufacturer's faulty 161 kilovolt (kV) power transformer that caused an electric voltage drop that affected at least 10 semiconductor companies sharing the same power circuit.
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| Gartner revised semiconductor growth to 12.3% |
4/17/2017 |
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Gartner Inc. said it expects semiconductor industry sales to grow 12.3 percent this year, reaching $386 billion. Gartner said favorable market conditions that gained momentum in the second half of 2016 have raised the outlook for the chip market in both 2017 and 2018.
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| PC Market show sign of hope in Q1 |
4/13/2017 |
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PC shipments in the first quarter rose by about 1 percent from last year, based on calculations from the research firm International Data Corp. The modest gain marks the first quarterly increase in five years.
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| 2017 to be marked as the year of the cloud |
4/13/2017 |
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This is the year when cloud deployment will dominate industry news. Signs point to it, from industry trends to forecasts from analysts, media pundits and software experts.
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| U.S. manufacturing continue to rise |
4/13/2017 |
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U.S. manufacturing technology orders increased more than expected in February, up 19.6 percent from January, while overall orders were up 1.7 percent year over year.
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| Market demand helped advance China fabs to 28nm |
4/12/2017 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corporation (HMLC) are the two leaders among Chinese foundries in the development of the 28nm processing. The existence of foreign-owned fabs in China will pressure these two domestic manufacturers to further accelerate their timetables for this technology.
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| Samsung Galaxy S8 is projected to be a hot seller |
4/12/2017 |
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Number of pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S8 has reached 143% in comparison to the same event for the Galaxy S7 it held last year. In South Korea, approximately 550,000 consumers chose the product during pre-sale for two days.
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| AMD buys Nitro for AR/VR technology |
4/12/2017 |
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Nitero's technology for wireless virtual reality headsets will help AMD broaden its portfolio to create more immersive computing experiences.
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| Phison to bid on Toshiba chip unit |
4/11/2017 |
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The company might seek to raise NT$5 billion to NT$6 billion via offering 20 million shares via a private placement and aim to raise another NT$10 billion to NT$20 billion by selling corporate bonds.
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| Former Dell/Lenovo veteran to lead Dell EMC Division |
4/10/2017 |
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David Schmook, current president of the $38 billion end-user computing business at Dell and former president of Lenovo North America will become president of Dell EMC North America effective May 8.
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| China IC design output continue to grow |
4/10/2017 |
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China's IC design industry output value climbed to US$24.75 billion in 2016 from US$5.66 billion in 2010 which reached a CAGR of 27.9% during the five-year period.
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| India's X86 server market unit shrinked |
4/7/2017 |
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India's server market has dropped by 16.8% quarter-on-quarter in the last three months of 2016, with 30,501 units shipped compared to the 36,668 units in the third quarter of 2016. Revenue, however, grew 4.2% quarter-on-quarter, thanks to sales of high-density servers.
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| IBM to employ Nvidia GPU accelerator to boost server performance |
4/7/2017 |
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IBM said its cloud customers will be able to use the GPU accelerator for applications such as artificial intelligence, deep learning and and high-performance data analytics. The accelerator can support the types of intensive workloads required by high-throughput applications used in business sectors such as financial services, energy and healthcare.
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| Global memory market to exceed $100 billion this year |
4/7/2017 |
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The global memory chip market is expected to surpass US$100 billion (112.7 trillion won). The figure is up as much as US$25 billion (28.18 trillion won) from US$78.6 billion (88.58 trillion won) last year which was an all-time high.
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| U.S. Ok'ed purchase of NXP by Qualcomm |
4/6/2017 |
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Qualcom's acquisition of NXP will be the biggest-ever in the semiconductor industry. The acquisition is also expected to help Qualcomm, which provides chips to Android smartphone makers and Apple Inc, reduce its dependence on a cooling smartphone market
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| Fujitsu to blow new lives into Sparc chips |
4/6/2017 |
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Fujitsu is helping to keep SPARC from extinction as it continues to design and develop the architecture. The company has introduced two Unix servers -- the M12-2S and the M12-2 -- using SPARC chips based on a new CPU architecture.
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