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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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| SK Hynix introduced 27nm 8Gb GDDR6 DRAM |
4/24/2017 |
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SK Hynix has been planning to mass produce the product for a client to release high-end graphics card by early 2018 equipped with high performance GDDR6 DRAMs.
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| In-memory graphic process to boost performance by 65% |
4/24/2017 |
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Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Houston have announced a technique for carrying out graphics processing in-memory which is claimed to boost performance by up to 65 percent.
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| Huawei's P10 models experimenting with different memory systems |
4/21/2017 |
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The company equipped the new flagship smartphone models with both eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, and UFS 2.1 storage. Speeds of UFS 2.1 storage could hit 700 Mbps, while UFS 2.0 and eMMC 5.1 storage generally had test results of around 500 Mbps and 300 Mbps.
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| New LI-RAM to reduce memory power by 10% |
4/20/2017 |
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Light-induced magnetoresistive RAM (LI-RAM) essentially “allows computer chips to exist at a molecular level,” which aims to reduce the power consumed and heat produced by modern PC processors
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| White House stalls world climate meeting |
4/20/2017 |
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White House postponed a meeting Tuesday where top aides were to have hashed out differences on what to do about the non-binding international deal forged in Paris in December 2015.
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| IMF prdicts global growth to 3.5% |
4/20/2017 |
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International Monetary Fund, which predicts that the world economy will grow 3.5 percent this year, up from 3.1 percent in 2016, a slight upgrade from the 3.4 percent global growth it had forecast in January.
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| 28nm is the sweet spot for SMIC in 2017 |
4/18/2017 |
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SMIC expects 28nm process technology to account for nearly 10% of its total wafer sales by the end of 2017. The proportion climbed to 3.5% in the fourth quarter of 2016 from 1.4% in the prior quarter and 0.3% a year earlier.
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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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