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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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| AMD demos GPU for 8K graphics |
4/26/2017 |
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The Vega GPU handling 8K video processing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017. The other focuses on 4K post-processing with Radeon ProRender, which renders high-end graphics.
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| SK Hynix posted record quarterly profit |
4/26/2017 |
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Operating profit was 2.47 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in the three months ended March. That compares with the 2.25 trillion-won average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales were 6.29 trillion won, topping projections for 5.98 trillion won.
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| A wild card in bidding for Toshiba |
4/25/2017 |
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U.S. private equity fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the public-private Innovation Network Corp. of Japan will tender a joint offer for Toshiba's memory unit that would likely put them in pole position.
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| Taiwan won’t be absent from the automotive market |
4/25/2017 |
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Taiwan’s ambitions, of course, seem like a pipe dream, according to assessments by automotive industry analysts and based on Taiwan’s virtually non-existent role in the automotive market.
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| Nvidia to award best AI proposal from small companies |
4/25/2017 |
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The company decided to create a meaningful award to recognize the amazing work being done by AI startups. The three awards will focus on the “hottest emerging startup,” the “most disruptive startup,” and the startup with the “most potential for social impact.”
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