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| Auto sales retreated |
7/6/2017 |
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The "Big Three" domestic automakers — General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler — on Monday reported lower June sales as well as six-month totals below last year's pace.
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| Manufacturing activity up in June |
7/6/2017 |
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Manufacturing expanded in June as the PMI registered 57.8 percent, an increase of 2.9 percentage points from the May reading of 54.9 percent and its highest level since August 2014.
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| Server market jumped thanks to cloud customers |
7/5/2017 |
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In India x86 market, HPE increased its market share from 37.8% in Q4 2016 to 40.3% in Q1 2017 in terms of revenue, followed by Dell with a market share of 20.5% during Q1 2017.
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| Micron achieved record revenue |
7/4/2017 |
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Revenues for the quarter were a record $5.57 billion. That’s 20 percent higher compared to the previous quarter and 92 percent higher compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2016.
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| Samsung to become number 1 |
7/4/2017 |
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Samsung is forecast to chalk up US$15.1 billion (17.2 trillion won) in chip sales for the second quarter of the year in comparison with Intel’s US$14.4 billion.
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| Samsung to recycle recalled Galaxy 7 phone parts |
7/3/2017 |
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The Galaxy Note FE phone, using unused parts in the recalled Note 7 smartphones, will go on sale in South Korea on Friday at 700,000 won (US$611), about three-quarters of its original price.
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| Micron to close Lexar Division |
6/30/2017 |
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Lexar was spun off from Cirrus Logic in 1996 and then acquired by Micron in 2006 in a bid to market NAND flash media.
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| Toshiba has a 96 layer 3D Flash memory |
6/30/2017 |
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Samples of the new device, which has a capacity of 256Gbit, are scheduled for release in the second half of 2017, with mass production targeted for 2018.
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| 22nm MRAM moves ahead at GlobalFoundries |
6/30/2017 |
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The market opportunity for eMRAM is not dissimilar to those of other emerging memory technologies as well as incumbents: new high-volume markets include mobility, networking, data centers, Internet of Things (IoT) and automotive
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| Intel offers 64-layer 3D NAND SSD |
6/29/2017 |
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Intel's 3D NAND technology is a floating gate architecture, which is based upon having a smaller cell size and by placing control logic under the memory array.
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| SK Hynix to gain position in global memory industry |
6/29/2017 |
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SK’s semiconductor business SK hynix and its three strategic partners -- US private equity firm Bain Capital, Development Bank of Japan and Innovation Network of Japan -- were picked by Toshiba as the preferred bidder in the sale of its lucrative memory chip business on June 21.
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| New Cyber virus hits Europe |
6/29/2017 |
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Ukraine and Russia appeared hardest hit by the new strain of ransomware — malicious software that locks up computer files with all-but-unbreakable encryption and then demands a ransom for its release.
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| DRAM profit to increase by 5% as shortage continue |
6/28/2017 |
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This situation is anticipated to last to 2018 since suppliers will not take on significant additional production capacity in the short term. Meanwhile, ASPs of various DRAM products will remain high.
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