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| Apple’s iPhone 8 Will Retail In October |
5/9/2017 |
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“TSMC will begin to fabricate the wafer starts needed for the production of A11 processes on June 10 and to deliver the chips in volume quantity in the second half of July, the report indicated”.
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| LPDDR4/LPDDR-4x to be mainstream memory for smartphones |
5/9/2017 |
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Total bit shipments of mobile DRAM products is projected to surpass that of LPDDR4 this second quarter. Not only has LPDDR4X reached price parity with LPDDR4, its price difference with LPDDR3 has narrowed down to less than 5% on average.
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| The trend continue on removing earphone jack from smartphones |
5/8/2017 |
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Apple saw it as a century old technology that was holding the company back from making improvements to the smartphone. Xiaomi similarly states its reasons to remove the port as being able to fit a larger battery in its newest flagship, the Xiaomi Mi 6.
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| Cell phone makers to trim Mobile DRAM content |
5/8/2017 |
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A rally in mobile DRAM prices will hold back the growth of average per device memory content for smartphones in 2017, according to TrendForce. Average DRAM content in smartphones is forecast to reach 3.2GB per device in 2017.
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| SMIC calls on Taiwan for partnership |
5/8/2017 |
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IC industries in China and Taiwan could team up as a powerful IC industry supply chain globally, said Chiu o SMIC, adding that the Taiwan government should implement an open policy enabling China-based enterprises to cooperate with their Taiwan-based peers.
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| Auto sales retreated in April |
5/4/2017 |
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Detroit's "Big Three" — General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler — saw sales declines of 5.8 percent, 7.2 percent and 7 percent, respectively, compared to the same month in 2016.
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| PMI indicates manufacturing growth |
5/4/2017 |
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average PMI for January through April (56.4 percent) corresponds to a 4.1 percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) on an annualized basis. In addition, if the PMI for April (54.8 percent) is annualized, it corresponds to a 3.6 percent increase in real GDP annually.”
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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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