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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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| Auto sales slowed in March |
4/6/2017 |
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General Motors reported a 5 percent increase in sales last month as Detroit counterparts Ford and Fiat Chrysler reported declines of 7 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
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