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| SK Hynix's profit up 9 folds |
7/26/2017 |
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Second-quarter net profit shot up nearly ninefold, apparently helped by a strong average sales price of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and NAND chips.
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| ARM bets growth on IoT |
7/25/2017 |
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Some 100 billion chips built on ARM Holdings technology will be shipped in the next four years, as many as in the company's entire history so far, thanks to demand tied to the so-called internet of things.
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| Intel surfaces complain on Qualcomm monopoly |
7/24/2017 |
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Intel has now made its own statement, accusing Qualcomm of abusing its monopoly position and not licensing "standard-essential" patents at a fair rate as required by law.
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| China data centers up demand for advanced chips |
7/24/2017 |
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Data center installations are set to surge in China, the demand outlook for new applications, such as Big Data, cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI), appears promising locally.
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| UFS is wining over eMMC |
7/24/2017 |
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UFS2.1-based NAND flash chips boast the highest data transmission speed of up to 11.6Gbps (1200MB/s) compared to 3.2Gbps (400MB/s) attainable by eMMC5.1 chips. The difference will make UFS2.1 NAND flash chips the mainstream storage technology for smartphones in 2017.
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| Foundries see surge in automotive chips |
7/24/2017 |
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“The recent demand for automotive electronics, such as ADAS, AI, sensor hubs and connectivity, has changed the foundry perspective. The automotive market is wide open now."
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| Siemens built Digitalisation Hub in Singapore |
7/21/2017 |
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Together with Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB), Siemen's Hub will focus on the country's efforts to become "smart nation," utilising Siemen's IoT operating system MindSphere to drive digitalisation.
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| Qualcomm sales up despite patent entangles |
7/21/2017 |
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For the current quarter, Qualcomm expects earnings from 75 cents to 85 cents a share with $5.4 billion to $6.2 billion in revenue. Wall Street is expecting earnings of 90 cents a share on revenue of $5.48 billion.
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| IC Insight forecasts $419 billion semi sales |
7/21/2017 |
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"The strong annual upturn in sales is being driven almost entirely by fast-rising average selling prices (ASP. Prices for DRAM and NAND first began increasing in the second half of 2016 and continued with quarterly increases through the first half of 2017."
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| ZTE profit up 30% |
7/20/2017 |
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Revenue increased to 54.011 billion yuan, 13.1 percent higher, helped by growth in operations including wireless network, wireline network and bearer network, in addition to handsets, with improvements in gross profit margins.
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| Samsung increased production on HBM2 DRAM |
7/20/2017 |
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Samsung said it kicked off full-fledged mass production of the industry's first high-performance 8GB High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM) DRAM chips, applied to super computers, network solutions and graphic cards.
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| ASML expects revenue growth from deep EUV |
7/20/2017 |
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The new orders for ASML, whose clients include Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., brought the backlog to 27 for its newest machines, called extreme ultraviolet lithography systems or EUV.
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| Toshiba received court order to cancel out WD's original retraining action |
7/20/2017 |
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Toshiba allowed Western Digital partial access to shared data servers after the Superior Court of California granted a temporary restraining order earlier this month. But the Japanese company said it resumed blocking access after its petition for an appeal was accepted by the California Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
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| Nanya predicts continue DRAM tight supply |
7/19/2017 |
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DRAM prices would go up some 4% to 6% for the current July to September period, and the price would likely stay at such levels through the end of this year.
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| Renesas won infringement law suit |
7/19/2017 |
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On July 14, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered final judgment in favour of Renesas and Renesas Electronics America.
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